8 articles from The Lab Blog.
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Airport parking marketplace ParkMundo took its first outside funding after more than 10 years of profitable, self-funded growth, and is pushing into B2B distribution.
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Uber agreed to buy ezCater, the Boston-based marketplace for workplace catering, for $2.3 billion in cash to grow Uber Eats and Uber for Business.
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Berlin fintech finmid raised a €17 million Series A extension and signed Bolt and Skroutz, helping platforms offer loans to the businesses that sell on them.
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Hamburg startup Procuros raised a €20 million Series A led by XAnge to build the data layer that lets retailers, suppliers and AI agents trade automatically.
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At its Dash Forward 2026 event, DoorDash unveiled AI ordering by text, a drone delivery pilot, $7.99 returns and a connector that lets workplace AI agents place orders.
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OpenAI unveiled an enterprise marketplace with 30-plus software partners and new ways to run apps inside ChatGPT. Here is why that matters for software sellers.
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HostGhost is built around one idea: writers and performers should agree on the split first.
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Two-sided marketplaces have to serve two different people at once. Here's how HostGhost handles it.
