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  • Aug- 2021 -
    5 August
    Aesty premium cordless flat iron

    Aesty premium cordless flat iron reaches its First funding goal

    A new funding record might have been made with Aesty premium cordless flat iron. The product Aesty successfully raised its initial Kickstarter funding goal of $10,000 in just under 15 hours. Who created this product and their inspiration for it?…

  • 4 August
    Jeonbuk techno park

    Jeonbuk Techno Park to host “Untact Overseas Buyer Consultation Conference”

    Jeonbuk Techno Park will hold an “Untact Overseas Buyers Meeting”. The company’s Director is Yang Kyun-ui. The company will hold the conference with related buyers situated in Europe and the Americas. It will be on September 8th and September 9th…

  • 3 August
    music app breakr raises funds

    Music app Breakr raises funds worth$4.2M

    Music app Breakr raises funds worth $4.2 million in a seed round led by Slow Ventures. The latest raise follows $700,000 in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz’s TxO fund. The people behind the service considered this round as proof as they worked…

  • 2 August
    Preview in Seoul

    PIS 2021 Online Exhibition ‘DIGITAL SHOW’

    Korea Federation of Textile Industries (Chairman Sang-woon Lee, hereafter referred to as San-ryeon Seom) did hold an online exhibition (PIS Digital Show) on July 23rd to strengthen the pre-marketing of ‘Preview in Seoul (PIS) 2021’ to be held in September…

  • 2 August
    Colombian startup Rappi

    Colombian startup Rappi raises $500M

    An on-demand delivery Colombian startup Rappi raises funds worth $500 million at a $5.25 billion valuation. This was a Series F round led by T. Rowe Price. Baillie Gifford, Third Point, Octahedron, GIC, and SoftBank also participated in the new…

  • Jul- 2021 -
    27 July
    Dingdong Maicai IPO debut

    Dingdong Maicai IPO debut with $95.7M raise

    Chinese on-demand grocer Dingdong Maicai IPO debut made headlines as it raised $95.7 million. This came after the company priced its shares at the lower end of the range.  Dingdong Maicai’s debut received a lukewarm reception. Even though it cut…

  • 26 July
    didi raises funds

    Didi raises funds worth $4.4 billion

    Chinese ride-hailer Didi raises funds worth $4.4 billion. It went public on the New York Stock Exchange in a much anticipated US IPO. Didi is the biggest Chinese IPO in the US since Alibaba’s $25 billion listings in 2014. Details on the deal…

  • 24 July
    alibaba vs meituan

    Alibaba vs Meituan, and More: SHORT SHOTS

    Welcome to today’s short shot discussing Alibaba vs Meituan and much more. Here we take a glimpse at what went on with the startups to make the headlines in a single article piece. Alibaba vs Meituan: Alibaba gets competitive E-commerce…

  • 23 July
    didi under scrutiny

    Didi Under Scrutiny of the Chinese Government

    Didi is again under the scrutiny of the Chinese government in less than a week of Wall Street’s debut. Now it has become the biggest new target in Beijing’s fast-moving efforts to tame the country’s internet industry. Why is Didi…

  • 22 July
    daojia files for US IPO

    Housekeeping service app Daojia files for US IPO

    Daojia files for the US IPO in New York recently. It is a Chinese platform offering on-demand housekeeping services. In Chinese, Daojia means coming to homes. Alibaba is the backer of the company and the owner is 58.com. 58.com is China’s…

  • 21 July
    outbrain raises funds

    Outbrain raises funds of $200 million ahead of its IPO

    Outbrain raises funds worth $200 million. It is an ad-tech company that provides clickbait ads below news articles. Outbrain didn’t disclose the valuation of the company for this deal. The Baupost Group, a Boston-based hedge fund, is investing in the…

  • 20 July
    wellness startup Wecasa

    Wecasa raises $17.7 million for its wellness startup

    French wellness startup Wecasa has raised a $17.7 million funding round (€15 million). Blisce is leading the funding round with existing investors Serena, ISAI, and Frédéric Mazzella also participating. A little about the wellness startup Wicasa Wicasa has been building a marketplace…

  • 19 July
    opaque

    Opaque raises $9.5M in seed round

    Opaque is a new startup born out of Berkeley’s RISELab. It announced a $9.5 million seed round to secure sensitive data in the cloud. Opaque raise the money to be able to securely access and work with sensitive data. Intel Capital…

  • 18 July
    blackstone to back carbon health Inc.

    Blackstone to Back Carbon Health Technologies Inc.

    Carbon Health Technologies Inc. is a startup that provides in-person and virtual healthcare services. It is in talks for new funding at a valuation of roughly $3 billion. This followed after shelving talks to go public through a blank-check company.…

  • 17 July
    edge delta

    Edge Delta raises $15M Series A

    It was announced that Edge Delta raises a Series A round of $15 million. The Seattle-based company is a startup building a modern distributed monitoring stack. This is competing directly with industry heavyweights like Splunk, New Relic, and Datadog. The Series…

  • 16 July
    Mercuryo raises funds

    Mercuryo raises funds for crypto-focused, cross-border payments

    Mercuryo raises funds worth $7.5M in a recent round of funding. It is a London-based startup that has built a cross-border payments network. Mercuryo began onboarding customers at the beginning of 2019 and has seen impressive growth since with annual…

  • 15 July
    pleo becomes eighth unicorn

    Pleo becomes Denmark’s eighth unicorn

    Fintech Pleo becomes the eighth unicorn after raising $150M at a $1.7bn valuation. Thus, giving Denmark its eighth unicorn. What it also means is that in just over six years, Pleo has reached the milestone valuation faster than any other…

  • 14 July
    visa to buy tink Visa to buy Tink, a Swedish fintech for €1.8bn

    Visa to buy Tink, a Swedish fintech for €1.8bn

    Visa announced that it is going to buy the Swedish open banking platform Tink for €1.8bn. This will be a landmark acquisition for European tech and open banking. This could be the third-largest M&A of a European VC-backed fintech, according…

  • 13 July
    planet lab merger

    Planet Lab Enters Merger Agreement of $2.8bn

    Planet Lab merger has garnered a lot of publicity recently. the company becomes public by recently entering a merger agreement. It is a provider of daily data and insights about Earth. The company has entered into an agreement with dMY…

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