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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. billion fish deficit.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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The average cost of shipping a standard large container reached $10,000 in 2021 , but from 2015 to 2020, the number largely trended below $2,000. With its new capital infusion, Kaiko Systems plans to grow its team, improve its software solution and expand into new markets beyond its current footprint in Germany, Greece and East Asia.

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Informatica’s IPO will test public markets’ appetite for slower-growing tech offerings

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The data-focused company used its passage through the private markets to execute a move to the cloud, work that came to a head in early 2021, when Informatica announced its dive into the lakehouse market , where Databricks plays today. And in that final period — the quarter ended March 31, 2015 — Informatica generated $32.2

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Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M

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Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. The company offers protection for thousands of devices — from smartphones to appliances to gaming consoles to lawn and garden tools — or about 60% of the warranty market, according to Bethea. Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2

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Knock is the latest proptech said to be eyeing the public markets

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The pair started Knock in 2015, and have since raised over $430 million in venture funding and another $170 million or so in debt. We’re able to lend some money before an owner’s [old] house is even listed on the market.” . in revenue on net loss of $270M. .” in revenue on net loss of $270M. billion in 2014.

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Nerdy, a tutoring marketplace startup, is going public via SPAC

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Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. Its 2020 estimates list an anticipated net loss of $23 million, which is more than it lost in 2019 but less than its 2018 deficit. The company’s costs showed modest gains and losses, apart from its sales and marketing line item.

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Honeycomb scores $50M investment as observability platform thrives

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What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers.