Tech News: Expensify goes public

Expense management company Expensify listed its shares on the Nasdaq earlier this month, under the ficker symble EXFY, and flew all 140 of its employees to New York to celebrate, while CEO Dave Barrett rang Nasdaq's closing bell.

Hosting solutions provider Swizznet launched a technology services and support solution for small and midsized businesses, dubbed SwizzStack that offers outsourced IT management, cybersecurity solutions, and hardware support.

U.K.-based startup Pixie raised $3 million. The company is building an "operating system" for accounting and bookkeeping firms, centalizing and automatiing their processes in a single platform, and will use the money to expand its team, increase its platform's features and integrations, and support growing demand. The funding round was led by Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp, MMC Ventures and several serial entrepreneurs and angel investors. ... Fonoa, a global tax automation provider, raised $25 million to expand its global tax solutions. The company is focused on helping digital companies stay compliant in cross-border transactions, offering a plug-and-play modular platform with a simple API solution that integrates into the user's workflows. Investors in the round included Index Ventures, OMERS Ventures, FJ Labs, Moving Capital, Gautam Gupta (a former COO and CFO at Opendoor and Uber), Kevin Hartz (founder at Eventbrite), Prabir Adarkar (CFO at Doordash), Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas (former COO at GoCardless), Allison Barr Allen (COO at Fast) and others. ... Practice Ignition raised $50 million (see the full story.)