Stripe acquires TaxJar to add cloud-based, automated sales tax tools into its payments platform. The privately-held payments company now valued at $95 billion, has made an acquisition to expand the range of tools (and services) that it provides to online businesses. It has acquired TaxJar, a popular provider of a cloud-based suite of tax services, which can be used to automatically calculate, report and file sales taxes. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Stripe has confirmed that all 200 employees of Woburn, Massachusetts-based TaxJar are joining the company.
Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series B. This was led by Josh Buckley, the chief executive officer of Product Hunt, Todd Goldberg and Rahul Vohra. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams. The foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence.
Tellius announces $8M Series A to build ML-fueled business data query tool. The raise was led by Sands Capital Ventures, with participation from Grotech. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $17 million, according to the company. CEO and founder Ajay Khanna stated that the company is attempting to merge two technologies that have traditionally lived in silos: business intelligence and artificial intelligence.
Canada’s newest unicorn: Clio raises $110M at a $1.6B valuation for legal tech. Th Series E round was co-led by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity. The company’s platform aims to serve as an operating system for lawyers, offering cloud-based legal practice management, client intake and legal CRM software. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries. Many of the lawyers using Clio are smaller and solo practitioners, but the company also serves larger firms such as Locks Law and King Law.