Canary Technologies, which offers hotels guest management and other tools, raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $45M (Kathryn Walson/PhocusWire)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Arizona-based Qwick, an on-demand staffing service that matches gig workers with hospitality jobs, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $69.1M  —  Leisure and hospitality workers are quitting at the highest rates of any industry.  About 1 million left the workforce in November 2021 alone …

Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu:
Paris-based Mytraffic, which offers location analytics tech to measure vehicle and footfall traffic, raised a €30M Series B, bringing its total funding to €45M  —  Insurance giant AXA is getting involved following a B-stage cheque for web analytics-grade digital intelligence for brick-and-mortar from Paris startup Mytraffic

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
MarginEdge, which provides software for restaurant management and bill payment, raised a $45M Series C led by Ten Coves, bringing its total funding to $71M+  —  The global pandemic was tough on the restaurant industry, one that was already slow to adopt technology but then also had to quickly learn …

Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg:
Algerian startup Yassir, which offers on-demand ride hailing, banking, and more, raised $150M led by BOND to expand overseas, bringing its funding to $193M  —  Startup Yassir secured $150 million from global investors in North Africa’s largest fundraising as the tech firm seeks to roll out its super app overseas.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict demand, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $30M  —  In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order.

Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Internal emails: Google sets rules for hosting HQ guest speakers, like making a business case and considering company goals, after row over an Indian historian  —  Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google this week introduced rules for inviting guest speakers to its offices, days after it canceled …