UK-based Zen Educate, a marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, raised a $21M Series A extension to fuel US expansion (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database used by marketplaces like eBay of 50M+ car parts from 20K+ suppliers and OEMs, raised a $21M Series A  —  Car parts buyers require specific parts to fit specific vehicles, making for a supply-constrained environment.

AnandTech:
Review of AMD’s new $699 Ryzen 9 7950X, built on Zen 4 with 16 cores: blistering single- and multi-threaded performance and efficiency helps beat Intel’s chips  —  Back at CES 2022, which was held in Las Vegas earlier at the beginning of the year, AMD announced that its new Zen 4 core would be coming sometime in the second half of 22.

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Singapore-based Igloo, an AI-based insurtech platform for underserved groups in SE Asia, raised a $27M Series B extension, bringing the round’s total to $46M  —  Igloo, a Singapore-based insurtech focused on underserved communities in Southeast Asia, announced it has raised a Series B extension …

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu:
Dublin-based Tines, which offers no-code automation tools for security teams, raised a $55M Series B extension, bringing the total Series B to ~$77M  —  Offering dead simple drag-and-drop automation workflows for cybersecurity teams, Dublin’s Tines has raised an additional $55 million in a Series B round extension.

Bloomberg:
Court documents: FTX owes $3.1B to its 50 biggest unsecured creditors, with claims ranging from $21M to $226M; ten claims are over $100M each  —  Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt crypto empire owes its 50 biggest unsecured creditors a total of $3.1 billion, new court papers show, with a pair of customers owed more than $200 million each.

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
New York City-based Alkymi, which offers no-code workflow automation tools for business users, raised a $21M Series A led by Intel Capital  —  Alkymi launched in 2017 with a goal of helping financial services companies automate mundane tasks, a kind of lightweight RPA to grab information …