– Shop Latinx raised $1M in funding from investment partners Precursor Ventures, Backstage Capital, Debut Capital, 2PM, Humble Ventures, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Silicon Hills Capital, Techstars, among several other consumer angel investors.
– Shop Latinx has experienced exponential growth since its founding by entrepreneur Brittany Chavez in 2016, from a fan favorite Instagram account championing Latinx brands, designers and their stories to a full e-commerce marketplace boasting a community with over 100,000 highly engaged fans.
– Shop Latinx now features over 600 intentionally curated one-of-a-kind products from over 30 brands from brilliant creators and entrepreneurs with rich stories.

– Pass It Down is a digital storytelling company based in Baton Rouge.
– Company raised nearly $2m in funding.
– The round was led by VentureSouth, with participation from Cultivation Capital, Techstars, Red Stick Angels and Acadian Capital Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to create and launch Iconic Moments, an NFT marketplace exclusively for the world’s museums and cultural institutions, in the fourth quarter of 2021.

– MaxRewards, a digital wallet app that manages credit cards and automatically activates benefits like rewards, cashback offers and monthly credits, raised $3m in seed funding.
– The round was co-led by Dundee Venture Capital and Calano Ventures.
– Other investors include Techstars, Fintech Ventures Fund, Service Provider Capital and Fleetcor president Nick Izquierdo.

– Metrobi, a Boston, MA-based tech-powered fulfillment solution for local food and beverage wholesale, raised a seed funding round of undisclosed amount.
– The round was led by 212.vc with additional institutional funding from Techstars. Previous investors include Walnut Ventures, TBD Angels as well as notable angel investors.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its solution into new markets and build additional technology for its customers.

– Cubbit from Bologna develops a green cloud storage solution that does not use centralized server farms.
– The company raised €7m in funding.
– The round was led by Techstars, Primo Ventures, Digitech Fund – Azimut Libera Impresa, CDP Venture Capital Sgr, Gellify, the members of IAG (Italian Angels for Growth), and the Family Office of Massimo Prelz Oltramonti.
– The new investment will be used to grow B2C and B2B Sync&Share cloud services, develop new solutions (i.e. Backup and Object Storage), and launch Next Generation Cloud, a distributed cloud network reserved to pioneers companies.

– Gig Wage provides a FinTech payroll platform which enables employers to instantly pay 1099 workers while offering independent contractors an efficient way to receive payments.
– The company has raised $16.45m to-date from Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT), Silicon Valley Bank, Foundry Group, Continental Investors, Techstars, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and more.
– Gig Wage also announced the addition of Clarisa Lindenmeyer as Chief of Staff to the CEO and Chief Brand Officer.

– UpsideHōM, a senior living community, raised $2.25m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Triple Impact Capital and Freestyle Capital, with participation from Techstars.
– The company plans to launch a software platform to take out all the clutter from move-in and maintenance.

– PairTree announced the closing of a $2.25m seed financing round to modernize adoption through its use of technology to enable a more ethical, affordable and equitable adoption process.
– As one in eight couples suffers from infertility, more people are seeking alternate paths to parenting, including more than five million families looking into adoption in the U.S. every year.
– PairTree’s seed round was led by Urban Innovation Fund, with Founder Collective, Female Founders Alliance and Techstars as the other major participants.

– Hydrosat, a geospatial data analytics startup, raised $5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Cultivation Capital’s newly launched Geospatial Technologies Fund with participation by Freeflow Ventures, the Yield Lab, Expon Capital, Techstars, Industrious Ventures, Synovia Capital, and the University of Michigan.
– The company plans to launch its first satellite in 2022.

– Ganaz, a Seattle, WA-based provider of a workforce management platform for agriculture and food manufacturing, raised $7m in Series A funding.
– Backers included Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders’ Co-op, Taylor Ventures, AgFunder and Techstars. In conjunction with the funding, Peter van Oppen, a Partner at Trilogy Equity, joined the Ganaz board.
– The company intends to use the funds for further expansion of its platform.

– Treet, a company rethinking the resale retail market, announced the close of a $2.8m seed round.
– The financing comes from Bling Capital, Matchstick Ventures, Techstars, BAM Ventures, BBG Ventures, Green Meadow, Interlace Ventures, V1.VC and Alante Capital.
– Despite the fact that selling old clothes is the most sustainable and most financially beneficial way to dispose of them, the process can be super tedious for both sellers and buyers.
– Treet’s approach to simplifying its market and lowering consumer friction is to go through brands.
– Essentially, Treet helps brands set up their own resale sites where buyers and sellers can list and find items.

– Axle announced it raised $10m Series A financing.
– The round was led by Crosslink Capital with participation from FJ Labs, Flexport, Tribeca Early Stage Partners and others, including existing investors Anthemis Group, Techstars and Plug and Play Ventures.
– The company’s services allow incumbent operators to quickly modernize and compete against new startups.
– Axle says its solutions also automate carrier payments, invoicing and collections, which allows operators to connect all aspects of their fright operations.
– The company plans to use the new capital to expand operations, develop new services and strengthen the company’s payment and financing platform.

– Waffle announced a total $5m seed round led by Verve Ventures, with participation from BetterLabs Ventures and Techstars.
– The company is launching in both iOS and web, which is available across all 50 states and connects users with top-rated nationwide insurance providers in minutes.
– Waffle offers the ‘YOU’ insurance – one platform to protect you, everyone and everything you love. This includes your car, home, life, travel, pet, digital life, identity, friends and family.
– Waffle partners with some of the best insurance companies in the business to offer their users simple, fully customizable products with broad coverage and limited to no exclusions.

– eola is a London, UK-based operating system for experience providers.
– The company raised $2.8m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Pentech Ventures, with participation from Techstars and leaders in travel and technology.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s technology, team and commercial presence.

– Pixxel closed a $7.3M seed round with new capital from Omnivore VC, Techstars, and others, who are joining alongside Lightspeed Ventures, Blume, growX, Ryan Johnson, former President at Planet Labs, and additional industry leaders.
– The company’s first hyperspectral satellite will launch within the next few months.
– Compared to the common multispectral satellites prevalent today, Pixxel’s hyperspectral earth-imaging satellites are able to beam down 50x more information by capturing light reflected in far more detail and using narrower bands beyond just red, green and blue.
– This technology allows Pixxel to capture exact chemical signatures and offers more accurate solutions to previously unsolvable issues in industries such as agriculture, energy and environmental conservation.

– Parabol is a Los Angeles, CA-based Agile meeting platform.
– Company secured an $8m Series A funding.
– The round was led by M12 with participation from CRV, Haystack, Techstars, and others.
– The new investment will be used to expand its business reach and add new enterprise features.

– Lengoo, a language tech company from Berlin, raised USD 20M in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Inkef Capital with existing investors Redalpine, Creathor Ventures, and Techstars also participating alongside angel investors Matthias Hilpert and Michael Schmitt.
– New investors also include Polipo Ventures and Volker Pyrtek (former CPO of Deutsche Telekom).
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate global expansion and advance the development of their proprietary NMT framework for ultra customization of neural machine translation models for the professional use case.