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Silverfin wants to modernize accounting software with its cloud service
Meet Silverfin, a startup focused on accounting software. This isn’t about helping small startups handle accounting tasks themselves. Silverfin wants to build the cloud service for small and big accounting firms — Salesforce, but for accounting.The startup just raised a Series B funding round led by Hg — Index More
Lili raises $10M for its freelancer banking app
Lili, a startup building banking products to meet the needs of freelance workers, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in seed funding.The startup takes its name from its founders, CEO Lilac Bar David and CTO Liran Zelkha, who previously founded Israeli challenger bank Pepper. Bar David told me that More
The accelerating digital transformation, redux
Earlier this week, TechCrunch covered a grip of earnings reports showing that some companies helping other businesses move to modern software solutions are seeing accelerated growth. Inside the Software as a Service (SaaS) world, this is known as the digital transformation. Based on how many software companies are talking about More
Unpacking ZoomInfo’s IPO as the firm starts to trade
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.The ZoomInfo IPO slipped through our fingers in the last news cycle, so we’re going to catch up.Founded in 2000, the company has had a somewhat complicated history. ZoomInfo raised More
Pitch deck teardown: The making of Atlassian’s 2015 roadshow presentation
In 2015, Atlassian was preparing to go public, but it was not your typical company in so many ways. For starters, it was founded in Australia, it had two co-founder co-CEOs, and it offered collaboration tools centered on software development.That meant that the company leaders really needed to work hard More
Danggeun Market, the South Korean secondhand marketplace app, raises $33
Danggeun Market, the startup behind Karrot, South Korea’s largest neighborhood marketplace and networking app, announced today that that it has raised a $33 million Series C. The round was led by Goodwater Capital and Altos Ventures.The funding brings Danggeun Market’s total raised so far to $40.5 million. Its list of More