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March 2023

Seldon secures $20 Million in Series B funding led by Bright Pixel

The strategic funding aims to expand Seldon’s machine learning product’s market fit and unlock enterprise-ready solutions based on open source.

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By RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES

Mayan raises $5M Series A to expand ads optimization platform for Amazon sellers

March 2023 RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES Mayan raises $5M Series A to expand ads optimization platform for Amazon sellers SaaS platform will accelerate development of data automations and launch self-serve suite to drive seller performance. Mayan, a fully-remote company which builds best-in-class optimization and automation technology for Amazon sellers, has raised a $5M Series A round of funding, led by Bright Pixel (former Sonae IM). This adds to the $2M of seed funding Mayan had raised just a year prior from investors including Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Alumni Ventures Group, ESAS Ventures, and Alarko Ventures. Mayan will use the capital to further accelerate the development of advertising automations and to launch a self-serve advertising solution. This new solution will arrive at a lower price point than their base offering that includes an expert dedicated account manager. Mayan is also releasing a free analytics and forecasting suite for Amazon sellers that seek...
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By RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES

Chord Closes $15M To Expand Its Modern Commerce Infrastructure For DTC Companies & Omnichannel Brands

January 2023 RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES Chord Closes $15M To Expand Its Modern Commerce Infrastructure For DTC Companies & Omnichannel Brands Strategic capital expands Chord’s data capabilities, ushering in new features and customer insights. Chord, a Platform as a Service for modern commerce, announced a $15M Series A extension today. The round was co-led by new investor Bright Pixel Capital and existing investor Eclipse, with new investors GC1 Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative and Anti Fund VC joining existing investors Imaginary Ventures, Foundation Capital and White Star Capital as participants. Chord’s modern technology stack, which combines headless commerce and data infrastructure, solves a fundamental problem in commerce: access to the most sophisticated technology that doesn’t require a massive and costly team to build and operate.The infrastructure integrates into a brand’s system and is pre-configured and instrumented for best-in-class data collection and modeling, as well as synthesized insights. “The next wave of brands and...
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By EMERGING TECH

Habit raises €5.2 million to accelerate momentum globally

November 2022 EMERGING TECH Habit raises €5.2 million to accelerate momentum globally SixThirty, BiG Start Ventures, Iberis and Bright Pixel Capital – Sonae composed a €5.2M financing round to expand Habit’s capacity and keep the accelerated growth of their embedded insurance product in Europe and Latam. Habit is the only platform which includes a single insurance distribution API and an Orchestration Engine which, independently of the insurer and insurance product, provides distribution partners with full control over the policy lifecycle as well as offloads major IT effort and, enabling an incredible fast go-to-market. Habit has a significant focus in Telcos, having its platform certified and ready to integrate with telco’s existing IT infrastructure, allowing advanced features such as contextual sales (leveraged by telco’s core data) or high premium collection rates, by instructing the telco’s billing systems when and to whom charge which premium. "Habit played a very important role in...
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