– French startup Wecasa has raised a $17.7m funding round.
– Blisce is leading the funding round with existing investors Serena, ISAI and Frédéric Mazzella also participating.
– The company has been building a marketplace for home care and wellness.
– The startup originally specialized in hairdressing at home. It then added massage, beauty treatments, housekeeping, babysitting and sports coaching.
– The company is mostly active in France, it expanded to London in April 2021. Up next, Wecasa expects to launch its service in a couple of new European markets as soon as next year.

– DataDome secured a $35m Series B investment.
– The funding round was led by New York-based Elephant, with participation from DataDome’s existing investor ISAI.
– The cash infusion will enable DataDome to aggressively scale its global sales, marketing, delivery and R&D teams, and puts the company on track to deliver on its ambition to double its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and its customer base.
– More than 50% of this growth will come from the US.
– Observing a 47% increase of bot fraud attacks against digital businesses over the past 6 months, DataDome secures its customers against online fraud.
– This includes web scraping, account takeover, Layer 7 DDoS, and payment fraud.