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1.3KCarvana Rival Vroom Raises $146M For Used Car Platform
Online auto retailer Vroom has announced a $146 million Series G funding round led by AutoNation. L Catterton, General Catalyst Partners, Fraser McCombs...
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1.3KShopKeep Closes $65M Growth Round
ShopKeep, a tablet-to-cloud and point-of-sale (POS) payment platform for retailers and restaurants, has closed a $65 million round of equity and debt...
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1.8KParkJockey Tops $1B Valuation With SoftBank Investment
ParkJockey, a fully integrated parking technology solutions provider, has announced an investment from the SoftBank Group, bringing its valuation to more than...
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1.5KSouth Korea Payment App Toss Raises $80M
South Korean company Viva Republica, which is behind the payment app Toss, has become the country’s fourth unicorn startup after raising an...
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1.5KSoftBank Mobile IPO Will Be Japan’s Biggest Ever
After a tumultuous week, SoftBank will release shares of its initial public offering (IPO) at about $13.25 a share (¥1,500) and raise...
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1.2KYelp Faces Investor Call For Board Shakeup, Review Of Operations
SQN Investors, a longtime Yelp shareholder, is gearing up to push for new board representation as the company suffers from missteps that have hurt shares...
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3.1KMarlboro Sees Opportunity In Canadian Cannabis
Altria Group, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes for the U.S. market, announced that it is acquiring 146.2 million newly-issued shares of Canadian...
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SoftBank Vision Fund Investments Flirt With $100B
The SoftBank Vision Fund inched closer to its $100 billion target thanks to billions of dollars in tech investments around the world....
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2.3KBuffett Hungry For Banking Stake In India?
Is India proving a lure, once again, for the “Oracle of Omaha?” Reuters reported that the famed value investor’s favored investment vehicle,...
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1.8KCross River Bank Raises $100M
Cross River, a provider of banking services for financial technology companies, has raised about $100 million in a funding round, according to...
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2.1KGoogle Invests In Japanese AI Company ABEJA
Google, in an unusual move, has invested in Japanese AI and machine learning company ABEJA during a follow-on funding round, according to...
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1.9KAlto Pharmacy Lands $50M In Fresh Round Of Funding
Startup Alto Pharmacy has raised $50 million in venture funding, reported TechCrunch. Citing Alto Pharmacy, TechCrunch reported that Greenoaks Capital, Zola Capital,...
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3.2KForeign Startups Receive Fresh Capital From Chinese VCs
China’s venture capitalists have started to take an interest in foreign startups in an attempt to find the next tech unicorn. “China’s...
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1.5KHong Kong’s Oriente Raises $105M
Hong Kong-based startup Oriente has announced a $105 million initial funding round, which included investment from the founders, as well as a...
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2.2KModo On How FinTechs Can Help Merchants Access Payments Marketplaces
Funding can often be a sign of confirmation for FinTech startups. For Modo, the company’s Series A round showed that there is...
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3.0KCareem Aims To Raise As Much As $200M From Chinese Investors
Careem, the leading ride-sharing rival to Uber in the Middle East, is aiming to raise between $100 million and $200 million. According...
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2.7KCoupang Gets $2B Investment From SoftBank’s Vision Fund
Coupang, the South Korean eCommerce company, is getting a $2 billion investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, which will provide it with the...
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4.0KFinTech Acorns Seeks $100M At $700M Valuation
Through a reported funding round, digital wealth management startup Acorns Grow Inc. is said to be seeking over $100 million in funding....
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2.8KStandard Cognition Raises $40M To Take On Amazon Go
Standard Cognition, which provides AI-powered autonomous checkout solutions for brick-and-mortar retailers, announced it has raised $40 million in Series A funding, bringing...
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3.8KBerkshire Spends $4B For Stake In JPMorgan Chase
Berkshire Hathaway, the Omaha, Nebraska conglomerate owned by Warren Buffett, spent $4 billion in the third quarter for a stake in JPMorgan...
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4.6KMastercard Leads Investment In Mobile FinTech Mobeewave
Contactless payment company Mobeewave announced the closing of a $16.5 million Series B funding round, led by NewAlpha Asset Management, Mastercard and Forestay...
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5.7KBain MD On New $1B Fund And Why Seed Rounds Are Sprouting
Capital is finding its way into all sorts of funds and to all sorts of firms. Early-stage investments are mushrooming in size,...
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3.7KInstacart Raises $271M On $7.8B Valuation
Grocery delivery startup Instacart raised an extra $271 million in November, bringing its latest round of funding to $871 million. A source...
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2.7KAlexa Fund Invests $5M In Parking Startup
ParkWhiz announced it has received an additional $5 million in equity to its recently-announced Series D financing, bringing the total funding round...
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1.7KAnalytical Flavor Systems Raises $4M To Further Develop AI Taste Platform
Analytical Flavor Systems (AFS), the startup that uses artificial intelligence to predict good-tasting food, has raised $4 million in a round of...
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1.8KAlibaba’s New On-Demand Online Services Unit Raised $4B
Alibaba, the Chinese eCommerce giant, is having success with its newly-created on-demand online services unit — it raised $4 billion in funding,...
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2.6KJD.com’s Q2 Tech Investments Jump 70 Percent Year Over Year
China’s JD.com’s quest to expand into technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation is causing its expenses to soar, with the company...
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2.1KJaguar, Renault-Nissan Invest In Commuter Mobile App Transit
Transit, the startup that helps city dwellers navigate life and move about the city without a car, just raised $17.5 million in...
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2.7KNewly Public Tech Companies Rush To Sell More Shares
Tech companies that have recently gone public are wading back into the market to sell more shares at a rate that the...
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2.6KPeopleFund Notches $11M In Series B Round
In a Kakao Pay-led Series B round, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund took in $11 million in funding. The South Korean company,...
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2.8KSoftBank May Receive Listing For Mobile Unit
In what could be Japan’s largest listing in history, unidentified sources claim that SoftBank Group Corp.’s mobile unit could gain listing approval...
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1.6KHudson Executive Capital Takes 3.1 Percent Stake In Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank, the German bank, has seen Hudson Executive Capital, the hedge fund run by JPMorgan Chase’s former Chief Financial Officer Doug...
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2.5KJay-Z, Google-Backed InsurTech Co Ethos Gain $100M Valuation
Ethos, a startup that claims to process life insurance applications in minutes, has raised $35 million in venture funding. CNBC, citing the...
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2.9KDeliv Raises $40M, Gets Support From Google
Deliv, the startup delivery platform that has partnerships with well-known brands, has raised $40 million in venture funding. VentureBeat, citing the company, said...
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3.5KCoinbase Raises $300M At $8B Valuation
Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange operator, has raised a fresh round of funding that gives it a valuation of more than $8 billion....
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3.3KNaspers Invests $300M In South Africa Startups
Naspers has announced that it has created an R1.4bn ($300 million) startup fund to boost the technology sector in South Africa. Naspers...
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4.7KBerkshire Hathaway Has Been Investing In FinTech This Year
Berkshire Hathaway, the Warren Buffett investment company, has been getting in on the FinTech market, investing hundreds of millions of dollars during...
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3.3KMicrosoft Pulls Ahead Of Amazon As Second-Most Valuable Tech Firm
Tech stocks – they used to feel like they were getting whipsawed. Now, they just feel like they go in one direction …...
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2.5KTech Investors Rotating Into Payments Stocks?
For tech investors, is a rotation a-brewing? When it comes to investing, a rotation occurs when investors take their money out of...
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1.9KNest Rival tado° Raises $50M From Amazon, Others
Munich-based tado°, the intelligent home climate management company, announced on Thursday (Oct. 25) that it has landed a $50 million investment from...
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4.1KVisa Invests In Brazil Payment Co Conductor
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (October 23) a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil. In...
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1.9KAlexa Fund Boosts Voice-Enabled ResTech With SevenRooms Investment
SevenRooms, the all-in-one reservation, seating and guest management platform, announced on Wednesday (Oct. 17) an investment from Amazon’s Alexa Fund. In a...
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2.5KInstacart Raises $600M At $7.6B Valuation
Instacart, the retailers’ delivery service, raised $600 million in a fresh round of funding, giving it a valuation of $7.6 billion. According...
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2.2KMIT’s New AI School Gets $1B Investment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), aiming to take a lead in educating on artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced computing, is creating...
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2.9KBrex’s Plan For Its New $125M In Funding
When Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras first started out as an entrepreneur, his first destination wasn’t finance — it was virtual reality (VR)...
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1.9KSoftBank, Flush with Hard Cash, Eyes WeWork Stake
SoftBank is looking to put its money to work in WeWork. Possibly. Bloomberg reported Wednesday (October 10) that the Japanese firm –...
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3.8KDivvy Lands $30M To Disrupt The Homeownership Model
Homeownership startup Divvy announced that it has raised $30 million in equity and debt from Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from seed investors...
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2.1KStarbucks’ New Investor: Pershing Square
Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist hedge fund controlled by activist investor William Ackman, now has about a 1.1 percent stake in...
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2.5KSiemens Invests In VR Startup Backed By Volkswagon, Audi
German company Varjo Technologies has announced a $31 million Series B investment, led by Atomico and Seimens-backed Next47, that will help it launch...
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2.9KSnap Shares Fall Following CEO Evan Spiegel’s Memo
Following news that Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel unveiled new strategic goals and acknowledged shortcomings with a recent design of its app...
