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- Sep- 2021 -5 SeptemberNews
Breef received funding from Greycroft worth $3.5M
Breef received funding from Greycroft worth $3.5M. The company wants to use it to continue developing “the world’s first online marketplace” for transactions between brands and agencies. The investment round was led by Greycroft. It was also joined by Rackhouse…
- Jul- 2021 -19 JulyNews
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 JulyNews
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 JulyNews
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 JulyNews
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…
- 1 JulyNews
FamPay, a fintech in India, raises $38 million
Fampay has raised $38 million in its Series A round led by Elevation Capital. General Catalyst, Rocketship VC, Greenoaks Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital India, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital and Venture Highway also participated in the new round,…
- Jun- 2021 -18 JuneNews
SentinelOne files for $100M IPO
AI cybersecurity provider SentinelOne files for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). it uses AI and machine learning for security,
- 16 JuneNews
Short Shots – JD revenue grows 39%, Alibaba-backed new retail eyes IPO
While JD.com grows in the Q1 of 2021, showing great revenue, an Alibaba backed new retail, Huitongda, eyes for Hong Kong IPO for $1 billion.
- 7 JuneNews
MotoRefi gets $45M led by Goldman Sachs
In another round of investment led by Goldman Sachs MotoRefi gets $45M, just 5 months after $10 million were put into the fintech startup.
- May- 2021 -25 MayNews
Alibaba leads $400m bet on Vietnam’s fast-growing retail market
China’s technology group Alibaba is leading a $ 400 million investment in the retail sector of Vietnam’s conglomerate Masan. Alibaba’s bet is on strong growth in consumer spending in a Covid-19 success story that was Vietnam. More about the Masan-Alibaba deal…
- 14 MayNews
Didi plans grocery unit IPO as early as 2022
As per a report by The Information, Didi Chuxing , a Chinese ride-hailing giant is gearing up to usher in its grocery delivery unit for a separate listing as early as 2022. This comes a year after a planned listing for…
- 11 MayNews
SoftBank leads $15M round for China’s industrial robot maker Youibot
China’s flourishing industrial robotics space has been picked by SoftBank. Youibot is a four-year-old startup known for making autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios. In its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, it has notched close to…
- Apr- 2021 -28 AprilNews
Ornikar – The French online driving startup raises 120$ millions
Ornikar, which was founded in Nantes in 2013, is a Paris-based driving education platform which has managed to raise a $120m Series C round after seeing an uptick in users since the pandemic began. The latest funding is led by KKR…
- 25 AprilNews
Outschool is the newest edtech unicorn
Outschool is a marketplace that provides virtual after-school activities for children. In a series C led by Coatue and Tiger Global Management, the company has raised $75 million. New value and the rapid growth with it With the new funding,…
- 24 AprilNews
MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for a package-picking robot
With the events of the past year, the Robotics industry has seen getting a lot of attention. Especially warehouse and logistics have been in the spotlight for the automation push as the businesses struggled to keep going while dealing with…
- 23 AprilNews
Coinbase opens at $381 per share, valuing the crypto exchange at nearly $100B
This week, Coinbase executed a direct listing after which the shares of a company opened for trade from a reference point of $250 to $381, a change of 52%. When the trade opened, Coinbase was valued at $99.6 billion on…
- 20 AprilNews
Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia
Standard Energy is a South Korea-based vanadium ion battery developer. IT announced today That it has raised an $8.9 million Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia. Standard Energy was founded in 2013 by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of…
- 19 AprilNews
Messaging app Wire raises $21 million
Wire is an end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service. It has raised a $21 million Series B funding round led by UVC Partners. As the company said a couple of years ago, the company is focusing on the enterprise market more than…
- 15 AprilNews
Rapid raises $12M for its manufacturing robotics
Today, the bay area-based Rapid Robotics announced a $12 million Series A round led by NEA. This has brought the company’s total funding up to $17.5 million. Existing investors Greycroft, Bee Partners, and 468 Capital also took part in the…
