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- Oct- 2021 -13 OctoberNews
Energize Ventures raises $330M in Fund II
Energize Ventures is an early and growth-stage venture fund. It has announced the closing of its second fund with total capital commitments of $330 million. Fund II will be used to help scale and commercialize software across renewable energy, mobility,…
- 9 OctoberNews
Keenon gets $200 million in round D
Keenon is a Chinese server robot maker. It recently announced that it received $200 million in Series D funding. This round was led by returning investor SoftBank. Furthermore, according to Keenon, this is the largest funding ever in the service…
- Sep- 2021 -23 SeptemberNews
Affinity raised funds worth $80M to help close deals
A customer relationship intelligence company, Affinity has raised funds worth $80 million. Relationships ultimately close deals, but long-term relationships come with a lot of baggage, i.e. email interactions, documents, and meetings. All of these interactions are referred to by the…
- 19 SeptemberNews
Ola Electric in talks to raise at over $2.75B valuation
Ola Electric is in advanced talks to raise between $250 million to $500 million in a new financing round. This comes when the Indian firm looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market. Details about…
- 7 SeptemberNews
Stonehenge Technology Labs bags $2M
Stonehenge Technology Labs collects data. And it wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from it. The company announced $2 million in seed funding for its STOPWATCH commerce enhancement software. The round was led by Irish Angels, with participation…
- 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,…
