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Vimcal wants be the most nifty calendar app on the block • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 15, 2022Posted in Apps, calendar, calendar app, Vimcal, Y CombinatorNo Comments

Y Combinator-backed company Vimcal thinks creating an event takes too many steps in the current crop of calendar apps. So the company has made a calendar app that lets you create and edit events in just a few steps. Today, the startup is releasing its iOS app along with integration for Outlook accounts. The company […]

Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 4, 2022Posted in emerge career, Government & Policy, Startups, Y CombinatorNo Comments

Education options during and after incarceration have never been particularly extensive, despite the best intentions of educators. Emerge Career is working on changing that and its early success in putting formerly incarcerated folks to work is attracting investment from both VCs and government programs. It was only August when Emerge first appeared as it came […]

Rapyd Ventures backs Indian fintech-as-a-service startup Decentro • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 1, 2022Posted in Fintech, india, rapyd, Startups, Y CombinatorNo Comments

India’s Decentro, the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 million in a Series A round. The Bengaluru-based startup offers banking and payments APIs that allow development of fintech products such as banking, payment cards, neobanking and collections and payout services in a short period […]

Needl wants to become the search engine for your accounts • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 26, 2022Posted in Apps, productivity, Search, Startups, Y CombinatorNo Comments

Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines help you find information from the web. But it’s hard to find documents, messages, meetings, and emails from your own accounts. You need to go to different applications to find things that might be related to one project. A Y-Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Needl […]

Vanta lands $40M to automate cybersecurity compliance • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in compliance, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, Falcon Fund, funding, Security, Sequoia, startup, Startups, Vanta, Y CombinatorNo Comments

Vanta, a security compliance automation startup, today announced that it raised $40 million in an extension of its Series B funding round that closed in June, which valued the company at $1.6 billion. Notably, Crowdstrike invested in the extension — which was led by Craft Ventures — through its Falcon Fund, joined by Sequoia, Y […]

Pakistan strips YC-backed Tag of fintech services, orders to pull apps • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 9, 2022Posted in Fintech, Government & Policy, pakistan, Tag, Y CombinatorNo Comments

Pakistan’s central bank on Friday revoked the in-principle and pilot operations approval of Tag to operate as an electronic money institution in a move that poses existential threat to the firm. State Bank of Pakistan said in an order that it is revoking Tag’s approval to operate as an electronic money institution, the permission that […]