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Dripos brings together point-of-sale, mobile payments, employee management and payroll, loyalty and marketing automation and administrative functions like accounting and banking.

Dripos raises $11M Series A to replace Square, Toast and 8 other pieces of software

Conta Simples ended the year reaching breakeven and obtained a license from the Brazilian Central Bank) to operate as an Direct Credit Society.

Conta Simples grabs another $41.5M for its expense management approach in Brazil

Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre-Series B investment to support the delivery of bespoke payment solutions for African businesses. The round, which values the…

African payment service provider Nomba raises $30M, backed by Base10 Partners and Shopify

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? Speaking for myself, it sounds rather cumbersome — having to plop on a headset to browse for,…

Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48%…

Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners

Incredible Health, a U.S.-based job-matching platform which made nurses its first focus, has closed an $80 million Series B funding round and announced hitting a $1.65 billion unicorn valuation, billing…

Incredible Health passes unicorn valuation as it bags $80M Series B

If that slowdown comes, however, it could happen slowly, given that our inboxes are filled with news about newly raised venture funds.

A look at six new funds begs the question: Is a slowdown really coming?

Woflow’s data structuring platform powers some of our favorite food delivery apps so the next time you ask for “no bun,” you actually get what you order.

Woflow structures merchant data so food ordering can be more accurate

The mobile grocery app automates the supply chain, enabling customers to choose over 5,000 products delivered via a network of micro-fulfillment centers in less than two hours. 

Calii bags $22.5M to build Latin America’s grocery shopping future

The company is now profitable and grew over 300% in revenue last year. It now serves over 50,000 customers and makes more than 1.5 million deliveries a month.

Skydropx taps new funding to expand logistics automation across Latin America

The offer management platform provides “deal desk” software for recruiters to easily manage compensation strategies.

Job offer management platform Compa emerges from stealth with $3.9M

It’s no secret that the technology for easy business-to-business payments has not yet caught up to its peer-to-peer counterparts, but Yaydoo thinks it has the answer.

Yaydoo secures $20M, aims to simplify B2B collections, payments

Pangaea started with the launch of men’s skincare brand, Lumin, containing natural Korean-based formulations.

Pangaea Holdings, developing men’s personal care brands, raises $68M, including minority stake from Eurazeo

Nowports, an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses…

Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

There’s been a lot of talk about racial equality in the year since George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, but achieving it is far easier said than done given the…

This $250 million growth fund will divert half its profits to historically Black colleges and universities

Chili Piper, which has a sophisticated SaaS appointment scheduling platform for sales teams, has raised a $33 million B round led by Tiger Global. Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient…

Sales scheduling platform Chili Piper raises $33M Series B funding led by Tiger Global

EcoCart, a company pitching consumers on ways to offset their carbon emissions for free at select merchants (with a browser extension!) has raised $3 million in financing from Base10 Partners.…

EcoCart raises $3 million for a Honey-like browser extension to offset shoppers’ carbon emissions

Security compliance may not be the hottest conversation starter, but it’s a critical and often grueling process that companies have to endure every year to show that their security practices…

Secureframe raises $18M Series A to simplify cybersecurity compliance

Indianapolis-based Boardable, a provider of board management software tools for nonprofits, has raised $8 million in a new round of financing, the company said. The investment came from Base10 Partners with…

Boardable’s board management software for nonprofits raises $8 million

While certifications for security management practices like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 have been around for a while, the number of companies that now request that their software vendors go…

Secureframe raises $4.5M to help businesses speed up their compliance audits

Brendan Sweeney didn’t know anything about the restaurant business before he and his co-founders launched the Atlanta-based startup Popmenu. What Sweeney did know was that it was nuts that while…

Popmenu earns raves from investors for its marketing and delivery software for restaurants

As medical providers across the world turn to digital delivery of consultations and services, OnCall Health, a Toronto-based provider of back-end services for telemedicine, is having a moment. The company,…

Building a white label tool for telemedicine services nabs OnCall Health $6 million

Two years after closing their debut fund of $150 million, Base10 co-founders Adeyemi Ajao and TJ Nahigian are back with a $250 million investment fund and a sense of vindication…

Now one of the largest Black-led venture firms by assets, Base10 raises $250 million second fund

Stripe and Shopify have transformed the face of commerce for small business users, yet when it comes to putting that cash somewhere, SMBs have found that the banking options aren’t…

Wise locks down $5.7 million to scale its challenger bank designed for small businesses

Hello folks, welcome back (or hi for the first time) to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the all the ways people and packages move around this world. I’m…

The Station: Bird and Lime layoffs, pivots in a COVID-19 era and a $2.2 trillion deal

Made Renovation, a new, San Francisco-based company, thinks it has found a profitable way to help homeowners get done something that busy general contractors in the Bay Area won’t otherwise…

A look at Made Renovation, which just raised $9 million in seed funding to zero in on bathroom remodels