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- JOKR raises $50M down round, HiddenLayer raises $50M, Meta expands paid verification program
JOKR raises $50M down round, HiddenLayer raises $50M, Meta expands paid verification program
JOKR, the LatAm-focused instant-delivery startup, raised a $50M Series D at an $800M valuation led by Convivialité Ventures; a ~41% markdown from its $1.3B valuation in February 2023 - Link
HiddenLayer, an ATX-based startup building cybersecurity products to protect enterprise AI models, raised a $50M round led by M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures - Link
After initially launching only to creators in March, Meta expanded its Meta Verified program to include businesses for $22/month for either Instagram or Facebook, or $35/month for both - Link
Diligent, an ATX-based startup building hospital service robots, raised a $25M round led by Canaan; the company expects to have 100 units deployed across 22 US hospital systems by EOY - Link
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins Jason to discuss the latest developments in IDEs (3:04), leveraging AI for coding (11:48), Replit’s Ghostwriter (23:40), and much more! - Link
Legit Security, a cybersecurity platform that helps businesses identify vulnerabilities in code, raised a $40M Series B led by CRV; the company has 78 employees and intends to expand to 100 by EOY - Link
Bloomberg sources: Corti, a Denmark-based medtech startup building an AI co-pilot for hospitals, raised a $60M round co-led by Atomico and Prosus at a ~$260M valuation - Link
ZayZoon, a Calgary-based startup that helps employees at SMBs get paid sooner, raised a $34.5M Series B co-led by Framework and EDC; the company has 10K+ business customers and works with 160+ payroll providers - Link
CNBC sources: Apple and Goldman Sachs had been working on a native iPhone stock-trading app starting in 2020; last year, when markets turned, the companies put the project on pause - Link
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