December 16, 20210CommentsMavrck, a service that helps connect brands and influencers and offers an “Influencer Index”, raises $120M from Summit Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
December 16, 20210CommentsRokt, which helps e-commerce companies make personalized marketing offers, raises a $325M Series E at a $1.95B valuation led by Tiger Global ahead of an IPO (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)
December 16, 20210CommentsMeta says a woman was groped on its Horizon Worlds platform on November 26; an internal review says she should have used its “Safe Zone” tool (Tanya Basu/MIT Technology Review)
December 16, 20210CommentsRecycling service Rubicon, which uses data to match waste with disposal sites, will go public via SPAC at a ~$2B valuation; Rubicon works with Apple and others (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
December 16, 20210CommentsSources: Indian edtech company Byju’s is in advanced talks to go public via SPAC on the NYSE, raising around $4B and valuing it at about $48B (Bloomberg)
December 16, 20210CommentsCockroach Labs, which makes the SQL database CockroachDB, raises a $278M Series F at a $5B valuation, after raising $160M at a $2B valuation in January (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
December 16, 20210CommentsMalta’s status as Europe’s online gambling capital is under threat after it was added to the global money laundering watchdog FATF’s “gray list” in June (Willem Marx/Bloomberg)
December 16, 20210CommentsHamburg-based Taxdoo, which offers API-based tools for e-commerce tax and accounting, raises a $64M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing total funding to $84M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
December 16, 20210CommentsStocktwits, a social network used by traders and investors, raises $30M, source says at a $210M valuation, led by Alameda Research and says it has 1M MAUs (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)
