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zeroheight raises $10M round led by Tribe Capital to scale DesignOps for UX teams
– Zeroheight, a DesignOps platform for UX teams, raised $10m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Tribe Capital, with participation from Adobe, Y Combinator, FundersClub and Expa, as well as angel investors including Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub), Bradley Horowitz (VP Product at Google), Irene Au (built and ran UX design for Google) and Nick Caldwell (VP Engineering at Twitter).
– London-based zeroheight will now expand to the San Francisco/Bay Area, and grow the team across the board.
– Its focus so far has been on UX documentation, but it will now also explore other areas such as closing the gap between design and development.
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Great Question gets $2.5M seed round to make customer research easier
– Great Question, a customer research platform, raised $2.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures.
– Angel investors Warren Hogarth, Jon Williams, Jason Smale, Robbie Allan also participated.
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Insurtech startup Obie raises $10.7M Series A led by Battery Ventures
– Obie, an insurtech platform for landlords, raised $10.7m in a Series A funding round led by Battery Ventures.
– Thomvest Ventures, Funders Club, MetaProp and Second Century Ventures also participated in the financing.
– The company offers instant quotes (by instant, they mean in about three to five minutes).
– The company claims to save policyholders up to 25-30% compared to other insurance premiums.
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RevenueCat raises $40M Series B for its in-app subscription platform
– RevenueCat, a startup offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, has raised $40m in Series B funding.
– The funding round was led by Y Combinator Continuity Fund and included participation from Index Ventures, SaaStr, Oakhouse, Adjacent and FundersClub, as well as Blinklist CTO Tobias Balling and Algolia CEO Nicolas Dessaigne.
– With the round, YC Continuity Partner Anu Hariharan is joining RevenueCat’s board, which today includes Index’s Mark Fiorentino in addition to the founders.
– The company offers a real-time dashboard that display key metrics, like subscription revenue, churn, LTV (lifetime value), subscriber numbers, conversions and more.