Techmeme: Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform, has closed up 40% on its first day of trading on Thursday, after raising $167M in its IPO (Heather Landi/FierceHealthcare)

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Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare:

Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform, has closed up 40% on its first day of trading on Thursday, after raising $167M in its IPO — Healthcare software company Phreesia closed its first day of trading as a public company Thursday about 40% above its set price.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017 — Credit-reporting firm nears deal to settle investigations into 2017 hack that exposed millions of Americans' personal data

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FinSMEs:

BriteCore, a cloud-based insurance platform used by 50+ property and casualty insurers, raises $47.5M led by Warburg Pincus, bringing its total raised to $70M — BriteCore, a Springfield, MO-based provider of next-generation core software solutions for insurers, received $47.5m in growth funding.

More: blog.britecore.com

Andrew Liptak / The Verge:

Some publishers are demanding Audible to exclude their audiobooks from Captions, Audible's upcoming AI-powered transcriptions feature, citing copyright claims — Some are asking for their books to be withheld from the feature — Earlier this week, Audible revealed that it was working …

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Lucy Tobin / London Evening Standard:

UK-based AppyParking, which uses sensors in parking bays to help drivers find empty parking spots, raises £7.6M Series A, at a valuation of £50M — Car giant's investment boosts value of London start-up — A London tech firm that aims to end drivers' hunt for parking spots …

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Song Jingli Mon / KrASIA:

CloudMinds, a cloud-based robotics company, files for a US IPO seeking to raise $500M, says it had revenues of $121M, up 529% YoY, and a $156.8M loss in 2018 — Beijing-headquartered robot producer CloudMinds has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering to raise up to USD 500 million.

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David Z. Morris / Fortune:

Dust Identity, which covers objects with a diamond dust coating with a unique pattern to track them across complex supply chains, raises $10M Series A — Startup Dust Identity has raised $10 million in a series A funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins and including strategic investments …

More: TechCrunch

Eugene Kim / CNBC:

Amazon updates ToS for 3rd party sellers, will now give a 30-day notice and provide reasons for account suspensions, but sellers say changes don't go far enough — KEY POINTS — Amazon updated its terms of service for third-party sellers this week, committing to give a 30-day notice and provide reasons for account suspensions.

Biswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times:

India-based MogliLabs, which operates the B2B industrial goods marketplace Moglix, raises $60M Series D, sources say at a valuation between $200M and $300M — The company will primarily use the proceeds to ramp up infrastructure. Moglix is currently present in 14 locations, and plans to be in 22-25 industrial hubs.

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