Planck, an AI-based data platform for insurance underwriting, announced today that it has raised a $16 million Series B led by Team8 Capital. All of the startup’s existing investors — Viola FinTech, Arbor Ventures and Eight Roads — also participated, while Nationwide and Hannover Digital Investments joined as strategic investors.Based More

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This time around we’re recording what we call an Equity Shot, a single-topic show that we pull together whenever there’s a news item of sufficient weight that it demands we break our regular cadence More

Lili, a startup building banking products to meet the needs of freelance workers, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in seed funding.The startup takes its name from its founders, CEO Lilac Bar David and CTO Liran Zelkha, who previously founded Israeli challenger bank Pepper. Bar David told me that More

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.ZoomInfo went public yesterday. After pricing its IPO $1 ahead of its proposed range at $21 per share, the company closed its first day’s trading worth $34.00, up 61.9%, according More

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.The ZoomInfo IPO slipped through our fingers in the last news cycle, so we’re going to catch up.Founded in 2000, the company has had a somewhat complicated history. ZoomInfo raised More

When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its original name). We had no idea how big at the time. Today, NetApp announced plans to acquire the startup.The More