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- 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…
- 11 AprilNews
Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 billion
This year, Tiger Global has been seen getting involved in a number of mega-rounds, often as the round’s co-lead. This week alone, half a dozen companies have announced rounds that the New York-based investing giant has either led, co-led, or…
