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This weeks startup funding news features AI-enabled healthcare, call centre software, HR tech and even a two-sided marketplace for cakes.

The threat of rate rises has hit the share prices of tech and growth stocks hard in recent months, yet industry titans are relaxed for two reasons.

Tech-focused venture capital firm Future Now Capital is pitching to investors for $150 million to invest in software-as-a-service businesses.

Finder, a global fintech company based in Australia, announced raising an initial $21.5 million in funding, its first external funding.

The $30 million in funding gives Finder a valuation of $650 million, as the startup gets ahead of the global 'internet revolution'.

The product comparison service is launching its transactional app in the US, and its first investment products.

A non-executive director at the big four bank has resigned from the board to focus on his health.

Digital youth engagement platform, Year13, has boosted its capability with three senior appointments following a $10M investment from Future Now Capital, in advance of its roll out to agencies nationally. Empowering generations of young people to live happier and healthier lives, Year13 has se

Lockdown opens global market for Edtech business Robert Bolton Share The pandemic has dramatically boosted demand for education technology, with edtech company Compass Education lifting international revenue by 65 per cent in the year to the end of January. The Melbourne-based business started to expand operations in the United Kingdom just before the first UK lockdown last year. “Australia is seen as a leader in the education space but what you get with the UK is a huge increase in the size ...