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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. million in pre-Series A funding.

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Metigy gets $20 million AUD to making online marketing easier for SMEs

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Metigy , a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their online ad campaigns, has raised a Series B of $20 million AUD (about $14.6 Founded in 2015, Metigy is currently used by about 26,000 businesses and has channel partnerships with Google and Optus. million USD).

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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Social listening app Earbuds raises $3 million in Series A funding

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Ten years later, Earbuds has raised a $3 million Series A round for its social listening app, led by Ecliptic Capital with additional investment from the Andre Agassi Foundation and LFG Ventures. Tech veteran Drew Larner also came aboard as a senior advisor and investor — in 2015, he sold the streaming app Rdio to Pandora.

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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

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Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. Then as part of its community, companies share knowledge of marketing buys and data insights typically reserved for larger advertisers. Trust dashboard. E-commerce sales in the U.S.

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Meadow launches a powerful mobile marketing tool for cannabis dispensaries

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Called the Meadow Platform, it includes two key tools for dispensaries: a customer relationship manager (CRM) and a text messaging platform for mobile marketing. Because of regulations, retailers have a wealth of information on their clientele, which Meadow’s system can use for target marketing.

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Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web

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Goodin explained that the company started out as an image research firm before becoming a product-focused, venture-backed startup in 2015. While we’ve written about other tools for licensing online content , Goodwin emphasized that Catch&Release isn’t just about finding photos for a social media campaign.

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