Divido bags $30M to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets – TechCrunch

London-based Divido, a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at…

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Guild Education valued at $3.75 billion with newest round – TechCrunch

Guild Education, which pairs employees with employer-sponsored learning opportunities, has raised $150 million in a Series E round. The financing event, funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, D1, Emerson…

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FlixMobility raises $650M+ at a $3B valuation to double down on buses and other transport in the US – TechCrunch

As consumers around the world slowly start to get moving again — fingers crossed that new waves of COVID-19 cases do not set that back — one of the big…

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Confluent’s IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets – TechCrunch

Confluent became the latest company to announce its intent to take the IPO route, officially filing its S-1 paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week. The company,…

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Etsy asks, ‘how do you do, fellow kids?’ with $1.6B Depop purchase – TechCrunch

The news this morning that e-commerce marketplace Etsy will buy Depop, a startup that provides a second-hand e-commerce marketplace, for more than $1.6 billion may not have made a large…

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