SpotSaaS Weekly Roundup #3

This Week In The SaaS Universe- Updates & Highlights With spotSaaS Weekly Roundup

Latest Funding News

Solsten raises $22 million to help firms design better digital experiences for audiences

Company Name	Solsten
About the company	AI startup
Founder Name	Joe Schaeppi and Bastian Bergmann
Fund raised	$22 million
Investors	Konvoy
How will the company use the money	To help brands understand their customers on a deeply human level to create new experiences.

Creating a safe and CO2-free energy source lands €12.5 million for Thorizon

Company Name	Thorizon
About the company	A developer of nuclear power solutions.
Founder Name	Sander de Groot and Lucas Pool
Fund raised	€12.5 million
Investors	Positron Ventures, Invest-NL, Huisman, PDENH and Impuls Zeeland
How will the company use the money	Boost the essential tests and research needed to complete the design of the first prototype before 2035.

Insurtech startup MetaMorphoSys raises $3 million in funding led by Capital2B

Company Name	MetaMorphoSys
About the company	Low-code platform
Founder Name	Amit Naik and Kewal Vargante
Fund raised	$3 million
Investors	Info Edge
How will the company use the money	To expand and invest in innovative solutions.

Shiprocket turns unicorn with $32 million funding

Company Name	Shiprocket
About the company	Logistics aggregator
Founder Name	Saahil Goel
Fund raised	$32 million
Investors	Temasek and Lightrock
How will the company use the money	To ensure better inventory utilisation, faster delivery and optimisation of operational costs.

Mergers & Acquisitions

U.A.E.-based Cartlow acquires MellToo

To extend its operations and services in the main economies of the Saudi Arabian and UAE regions, cloud-based logistics technology company Cartlow has announced the acquisition of Melltoo, a marketplace for used products.

The technological platform recently paid an undisclosed sum to purchase the diverse startup Melltoo. In the year 2004, the business entered the market.

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Thoma Bravo Closes $6.9B Acquisition of Identity-Security Vendor SailPoint

Thoma Bravo, a major private equity firm, has officially finished the all-cash acquisition of SailPoint, a provider of enterprise identity security. Thoma Bravo and Ping Identity, which it had previously acquired for $2.8 billion in cash, had a similar agreement earlier this month.

Under the Thoma Bravo brand, Ping changed from being a publicly traded company to a privately held business. Additionally, SailPoint, which provides the software-as-a-service (SaaS) identity-security platform IdentityNow, has changed from being a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange to a privately held business under Thoma Bravo.

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Fintech unicorn Razorpay continues acquisition spree now acquires Ezetap

With its third purchase of the year, fintech upstart Razorpay has added Bengaluru-based digital payment business Ezetap to its portfolio. The fintech unicorn owned more than 80% of Ezetap, according to the regulatory filings of the holding company for Ezetap, which is domiciled in Singapore. For an undisclosed sum, the transaction was made through a combination of main and secondary deals. Although sources claimed that the acquisition had not yet been finalized and that the business would soon make its financial details public,

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Eurobio Scientific buys Dutch transplant diagnostics firm GenDx for €135 million

Genome Diagnostics (GenDx), a genetic diagnostics kit startup based in the Netherlands, has been purchased by Eurobio Scientific of Paris for €135 million. The purchase will result in the establishment of a foundation to support research and advancement in the transplantation sector.

Both GenDx’s Utrecht headquarters and its Chicago-based North American office will remain open for business. The GenDx portfolio will continue, and it’s established, established, global distributor network will support it.

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