Google is building its first engineering team devoted to Southeast Asia, and the search giant has gobbled up Pie, a Slack-like team communications app based in Singapore, to kick start things off. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Triptease, The Startup That Helps Hotels Increase Direct Sales, Closes $7M Series A
Triptease, the startup that provides a SaaS to enable hotels to increase direct sales, has closed $7 million in Series A funding. Investors include VCs Notion Capital, and Episode 1, both of whom previously backed the U.K. company. Read More
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Today’s Deals – YouAppi Closes $13.1M Series B To Grow Its Mobile User Acquisition Service In Asia
YouAppi, a US-Israeli startup that helps companies acquire users through mobile ads and analytics, has closed a $13.1 million Series B round to develop its technology and expand its business Asia. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Singapore-based Cloud Communication Startup Wavecell Scores $1.6M Series A
Wavecell, a Singaporean startup that creates APIs for communication tools, has raised a $1.6 million Series A. The round was led by Qualgro Asean Fund with participation from Wavemaker Pacific, and will be used to grow Wavecell’s market presence in Southeast Asia. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Casual Trading App Bux Pulls In Another $6.9M In Funding
More VC being thrown at casual trading app Bux. The app, which turns stocks and derivatives trading (via CFDs) into a game-like and social experience, thus potentially broadening the market to include a greater number of people who have never traded before, has pulled in a further $6.9 million in funding. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Amazon Acquires Emvantage To Build Its Online Payment Platform In India
Amazon will acquire startup Emvantage to develop its Indian e-commerce site’s payment platform. In a press announcement, Amazon said the Noida-based company’s employees will start working for Amazon’s payment team after the transaction is completed. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Yello Mobile Raises $30M More At A $4B Valuation From Japan’s SBI Holdings
Yello Mobile — the Seoul, Korea-based mobile apps business that has grown by raising nearly $150 million and acquiring over 80 other app startups — has picked another $30 million in funding. This latest cash injection comes from SBI Holdings, a digital financial services group based out of Japan that announced a strategic partnership with Yello at the end of last year. When… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Giphy Closes $55 Million Series C At A $300 Million Post-Money Valuation
Giphy, the Google of GIFs, has closed a $55 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $300 million post-money. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from General Catalyst Partners, RRE, Betaworks, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, CAA and other existing Giphy investors. Giphy launched out of betaworks back in 2013 with one goal: to let the world search, discover,… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Zoomdata Snares $25 Million Series C Led By Goldman Sachs
Zoomdata, a company that’s trying to transform business intelligence by connecting to both modern and traditional data sources at scale, announced a $25 million Series C round today. The investment was led by Goldman Sach’s Principal Strategic Investments Group. New investor Comcast Ventures also participated along with prior investors Accel, Columbus Nova Technology Partners… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Palantir Acquires Kimono Labs For Its Web-Scraping Service
Kimono Labs, a Y Combinator-backed web-scraping tool that helps developers grab information from sites without having to write their own scrapers, has been acquired by Palantir. The company made the announcement on its website today, and Kimono co-founder Pratap Ranade confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch. Neither Palantir nor Kimono disclosed any financial details of the transaction,… Read More
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