Don't miss these Fullcast raises $34M to track revenue teams: Do you have a bunch of products, revenue lines and sales teams? Tracking the milieu can be a big, complicated, messy task. That's something the founders of Fullcast learned at Microsoft and Salesforce. So they came up with software that allows companies to manage and track the performance of each of their revenue-generating teams by connecting to existing software. Fullcast currently has revenue of $6.5 million, meaning that revenue operations (RevOps?) is a category with legs. Build a Rocket Boy snags $110M: Founded by a former developer of the Grand Theft Auto games, Build a Rocket Boy has raised a massive round to help fund the development and launch of several titles, one of which could compete with Roblox. Given the layoffs we've seen this year in the gaming industry, this round stood out to me for being nearly counter to the wider narrative. Also, who doesn't love seeing some capital flow towards art? N26 says 'hallo' to stock trading: Berlin-based neobank N26 is getting into the equities and ETF game. The move is not surprising, as adding new investing features could help the company expand its revenue per user, which all fintech startups seek to do as they scale. Samsung is coming with new hardware: Today at 1 p.m. E.S.T., Samsung will unveil its newest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S24. We expect new hardware, but also some AI elements that may be worth paying some attention to. Sierra Space lands part of a big satellite deal: Space-focused startups are having a good start to the year. Sierra Space has been picked, along with Lockheed Martin and L3Harris, to build 54 satellites in deals collectively worth $2.5 billion. The development comes in the wake of Rocket Lab snagging a similar contract worth $515 million last week. Space is a massive market, and it's good to see startups getting a piece of the action. Fake beef: No, I am not discussing synthetic arguments; I'm talking about artificial beef, the kind you can eat. Aleph Farms has gotten the green light in Israel to produce and sell its cultivated beef product in the country. This is not a plant-based replacement; it's actual meat grown in a lab. Perhaps it will prove tasty. Anything to improve our factory farming food chain is good by me. And in the United States, regulators are turning up the pressure on companies that experienced data breaches. "It might seem like it's never been a riskier time to work in cybersecurity," writes Zack Whittaker. |