This crypto monitoring startup — ‘We’re bomb-sniffing dogs’ — just raised Series A funding | Fireflies.ai raises $14M for its meeting transcription and automation service | Aurora Solar aims to power the growing solar industry with a $250M round C

The SaaS News Roundup

Solidus Labs, surveillance and risk-monitoring software that can detect manipulation across cryptocurrency trading platforms, raises $20 million in Series A. The firm in total has raised $23.75 million and stated that its funding will be used to double its headcount to address growing demand. This funding was led by Equity Partners.Fireflies.ai raises $14M for its meeting transcription and automation service. This round was led by Khosla ventures. In individual usage terms, around 35,000 organizations are represented amongst its user base. The firm’s model is a hybrid of SaaS and usage-based pricing. Aurora Solar raises $250M in series C and aims to power the growing solar industry. The funding round was led by Coatue. With the firm Historically being a design solution; the next phase, according to CEO Chis Hopper is to broaden that into a platform that covers more of the process of going solar. Zeta, a startup that helps banks and fintech firms launch products, raises $250 million in Series C and is the newest to attain the coveted unicorn status after closing a financing round. The round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The new round valued the startup, which has offices in Bangalore and Dubai, at $1.45 billion. Zeta is the 14th Indian startup to become a unicorn this year as Tiger Global, Falcon Edge, and SoftBank accelerate their pace of funding in India, the world’s second-largest internet market. Mobile app market intelligence firm Sensor Tower has made its first acquisition. The company is acquiring Pathmatics, a market intelligence company that will now combine its paid digital and social media platform with Sensor Tower’s business. Deal terms were not detailed but include an undisclosed growth investment from Riverwood Capital into Pathmatics. The acquisition will allow the companies to offer an expanded set of digital and mobile advertising insights to their respective customers, including new social insights for TikTok, YouTube mobile, and Snap this year, powered by Sensor Tower. Salon-focused SaaS platform Glamplus on Monday raises Rs 2 crore in a pre-Series A round led by Inflection Point Ventures. Glamplus will use the fresh funds to enhance its product and tech capabilities and expand its business. It will also use it to scale to 3,000 partners in the next six months, along with a vertical expansion of its business line. Edtech startup Tekie raises $1.5M in a seed round led by GSV, Multiply Ventures. Tekie is a live coding platform that brings the art of storytelling to make learning a movie-like experience. The edtech startup has created the world’s first animated series on coding to teach text-based coding to kids. The firm plans to utilize the funds to scale its operation to support increasing demand and build a strong team to unlock the next level of growth.