Markets have been rewarding companies that have low carbon footprints, and penalizing those with high fossil fuel consumption. This is true in private markets, which we cover here at Crunchbase, as well as the public ones. As a result, the largest American oil company is now worth less than one-tenth of Apple.

There has never been a more challenging time to close deals. With downsizing, leadership changes and budget-tightening across the board, every minute counts. That’s why we’ve created tools to target the right accounts at the right time and fill your pipeline faster. Here are five ways Crunchbase Pro can make account-based selling more efficient.

Welcome to Week 2 of the 2020 IPO rush. Last week, Snowflake set the momentum with its chart-topping market debut. This week, at least three more companies are expected to list: telemedicine platform GoodRx; gaming hardware maker Corsair Gaming; and Bentley Systems, which makes software for designing and modeling infrastructure design.

San Francisco-based Chime, a challenger bank offering online savings accounts and other financial services, announced a $485 million Series F round backed by a long list of venture and growth investors. The financing sets a $14.5 billion valuation for the 7-year-old company, making it among the most highly valued of all fintech startups.

Affirm, a provider of installment payment plans for retail customers, announced a huge round, closing on $500 million in a Series G financing led by existing investors GIC and Durable Capital Partners. The capital injection brings the San Francisco fintech company’s total funding to date to more than $1.3 billion.

A big week for IPOs ended on an up note as shares of video game software development company Unity closed up 32 percent at $68.88 per share in first-day trading Friday. Earlier, the San Francisco company raised $1.3 billion in its initial public offering after pricing shares above its projected range.

With the window for tech IPOs wide open, it can be tough to keep track of who has made it to public markets and how they’ve performed. We’ve compiled a handy list, focusing on offering size and post-IPO performance for venture-backed tech companies that have hit the markets in 2020.

Checkout-free shopping is on track for broader adoption by retailers for a host of reasons. One is that the machine vision technology often used in cashierless checkout is getting cheaper and better, with algorithms able to assign goods to shoppers as accurately as the average cashier. That’s good news for consumers tired of waiting at the register.

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