Betaout, a marketing automation platform for e-commerce companies, plans to expand in India, Southeast Asia, and the United States after closing $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Airbnb focuses on India’s growing travel market
Less than a year after it brought on investors to help crack the Chinese market, Airbnb is going after India, Asia’s other mega-country with a billion-plus population. Read More
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Today’s Deals – India’s Jugnoo wraps up $10M Series B for ‘Uber for auto-rickshaws’ service
Jugnoo, a startup that provides an Uber-like service for auto-rickshaws in India, has closed out its Series B round having raised a total of $10 million. Investors included Snow Leopard, Rocketship.vc, Alibaba-backed payments firm Paytm, and the CEO of Snapdeal-owned Freecharge. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Alibaba confirms $1.25B investment in food delivery service Ele.me
Southeast Asia wasn’t the only new market that Alibaba jumped into with a billion dollar deal last week. Beyond a deal with Rocket Internet’s Lazada, the e-commerce giant also confirmed a $1.25 billion investment in Ele.me, a leading food delivery startup in China. Read More
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Today’s Deals – GoDadddy CTO and cloud VP heads to Google
GoDaddy’s chief technology officer — amid a time when the company is expanding its cloud-computing operations — is departing, according to a regulatory filing. Elissa Murphy will be leaving the company later in May. Her departure comes as GoDaddy has begun building out cloud infrastructure, helping it evolve from a simple hosting service to something more robust. These kinds… Read More
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Today’s Deals – GV leads $40M Series B in Quartet, its first investment in a mental healthcare startup
Quartet Health, a company that wants to close the gap between physical and mental healthcare, has raised a $40 million Series B led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). Existing investors Oak HC/FT Partners, F-Prime Capital Partners, and Polaris Partners also returned for the round. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Mitel buys Polycom for $1.96B in enterprise communications consolidation play
As more enterprises move their communications services over to IP networks and cloud-based services, we’re seeing an increasing amount of consolidation as the businesses that serve them continue to grow to provide end-to-end services, and to shore up against smaller, newer and less expensive offerings from the tech world like Slack, Skype, Google Hangouts and more. Today comes that… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Beekeeper, the mobile-first communications platform for blue-collar and service workers, raises $5M
Beekeeper, the Switzerland and U.S.-based startup that provides a mobile-first communications platform for employers that need a better way to communicate with blue-collar and service-oriented workers, has beefed up its coffers with $5 million in new funding. Read More
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Today’s Deals – HomeToGo, the metasearch engine for holiday rentals, raises $20M
HomeToGo, the Berlin-headquartered metasearch engine for holiday rentals, has closed $20 million in Series B funding. Noteworthy for a European startup, the round is being led by New York-based VC Insight Venture Partners, along with participation from the company’s previous backers DN Capital, and Acton Capital Partners. I’m told the new capital will be used by HomeToGo for… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Impraise raises $1.6M seed to rethink how companies handle performance reviews
Annual performance reviews are often more like an annual headache for both managers and employees. Impraise, a startup that wants to streamline the process with a mobile app, just raised $1.6 million in seed funding. Investors include Palm Drive Ventures, China Growth Capital, and HenQ. Read More
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