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- Feb- 2022 -18 FebruaryNews
Destinus plans to fly a hydrogen-powered, hypersonic cargo craft with a $29M seed round
Mikhail Kokorich's Destinus intends to assemble a hypersonic airplane for independent freight conveyance all over the planet.
- Oct- 2021 -27 OctoberNews
Pakistani edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed
Pakistani ed-tech startup-Maqsad was founded this year. It was founded with a goal to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students. Its founders Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in London in order to found this…
- Sep- 2021 -11 SeptemberNews
Rutter gets funding worth $1.5M
Rutter is a remote-first company. It is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform. Last week it was announced that Rutter gets funding worth $1.5 million and was emerging from stealth. The…
- 4 SeptemberNews
Real Estate Platform QuintoAndar raises $120M
The real estate platform, QuintoAndar has announced an additional $120M in less than 3 months of announcing its $300M Series E. Investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round. Existing backers participate as well. After this injection, the startup…
- 1 SeptemberNews
Kuaikan raised funds worth $240 million
Tencent-backed online comic platform Kuaikan raised funds worth $240M in a new round of funding. According to its WeChat statement, Kuaikan claims that the round is the largest ever in China’s online comic industry. Why the investment matters? Kuaikan offers…
- Aug- 2021 -27 AugustNews
Revenue-based financing startup Jenfi raises $6.3M
Singapore-based financing startup Jenfi provides revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans. Co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to this as the “growth capital as a product”.
- 25 AugustNews
ConverseNow targets drive-thrus after $15M funding
Austin’s ConverseNow is a voice-based AI technology. Just after a year of raising a $3.3 million seed round, it has managed another funding. The startup got a cash infusion of $15M in a Series A funding round led by Craft…
- 9 AugustNews
Zūm funded by SFUSD a sum of $150M
Zūm was funded by SFUSD (The San Francisco Unified School District) a sum of $150M to modernize its transport service throughout the district. It is a startup that wants to upgrade student transportation. The startup already operates its rideshare-meets-bus service…
- Jul- 2021 -27 JulyNews
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 JulyNews
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…
- 21 JulyNews
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 JulyNews
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…
- 2 JulyNews
Uberall acquired MomentFeed to scale up its services
Uberall acquired MomentFeed, a location marketing company based out of Los Angeles, to continue scaling its business. Uberall works with retailers and other operators to help them update and provide more accurate information about themselves across other location marketing platforms.…
- Jun- 2021 -4 JuneNews
British AI startup Faculty raises $42.5M
British AI startup, Faculty, has raised $42.5. million in growth funding from the Apax Digital Fund. It has raised $56.6 million to date.
- May- 2021 -7 MayNews
Kry telehealth tools use grows 100% & closes $312M Series D
Kry is a Swedish digital health startup, which offers telehealth service and software tools to connect clinicians with patients for remote consultations. It had managed to raise a €140M Series C just before the pandemic hit in Western Europe, in…
- 6 MayNews
BlaBlaCar raises $115m and says next financing could be an IPO
Carpooling and transportation marketplace BlaBlaCar has raised $115m, after coming out of 2020 that has been a year marked by Covid-19 travel restrictions relatively well. BlaBlaCar is a Paris-based company, which was founded in 2006. It became France’s first-ever unicorn in…
