INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here.This week was busy for startups: While there were no IPOs of note, there were other exits
and even unusual liquidity events, as well as a significant number of funding rounds of various sizes and stages.Most interesting startup
stories from the weekImage Credits:Tim Robberts / Getty ImagesThis week brought us M&As from serial buyers, an exit option that may be
reassuring for founders still struggling with customer retention and funding headwinds.Scooped up: San Jose, California-based startup
Mainstreet.com became the latest fintech to get acquired by workforce management company Employer.com, which is now valued at just north of
The AI startup came under scrutiny earlier this year for showing logos of companies that were not active customers, amid claims it was
venture financing for its cloud-native data catalog and data governance platform.With conditions: A group of investors is considering
resign.Liquidity: Sales automation startup Clay took the unusual step of allowing employees with at least one year of tenure to sell shares
to existing backer Sequoia
The operation values the company at $1.5 billion.Most interesting VC and funding news this weekImage Credits:Steve Jennings / Getty
Series B led by Kleiner Perkins to develop age-reversing therapies.Qonto rival: Finom, a neobank serving SMBs in several European countries,
platform for shipping has defense applications, raised a $72.5 million Series A, bringing its total funding to over $111 million.Scanning:
Ox Security, which scans for vulnerabilities in code, secured a $60 million Series B led by DTCP that it will use for growth and
million Series B led by Accel.Bye, business cards: Australian startup Blinq raised a $25 million Series A to make business cards obsolete
and replace them with digital alternatives with CRM integrations.Wisdom truth: WisdomAI, an AI startup hoping to help avoid hallucinations
when delivering business insights, raised $23 million in an unusually large seed round.More power: Breathe Battery Technologies, whose
software helps optimize and predict battery performance, raised a $21 million Series B led by Kinnevik Online AB.Coding context: Unblocked,
a company behind an AI-powered assistant that answers contextual questions about lines of code, raised a $20 million Series A from B Capital
and Radical Ventures.Positive energy: Bosch Ventures, the venture arm of Bosch, will keep on investing in deep tech through its new $270
Athens-based VC firm Marathon Venture Capital closed its newest fund with approximately $84 million in capital commitments, A Technology
NewsRoom caught up with partner Panos Papadopoulos to discuss how Greek startups are serving global markets, and more.
