Travel planner and booking platform GoEuro has taken in another big cash injection, announcing a $70 million funding round led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Valley VC fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Read More
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Today’s Deals – 500 Startups announces new $50 million fund for Southeast Asia
500 Startups’ organization in Southeast Asia — 500 Durians — is back with a new $50 million fund to press on with early-stage startup dealmaking in the emerging region, which counts over 600 million consumers. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Source{d}, a Spanish startup using AI to match developers to jobs, raises $6M
Source{d} provides an interesting use-case for AI. The Spain-headquartered startup, which today is announcing $6 million in Series A funding, is using deep learning to help startups and larger companies recruit developers. Specifically, its AI tech is analysing the code of millions of developers via their open source contributions in order to match them to appropriate job openings. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Wine retailer Tannico “quaffs” €3.8M Series A
“FINE WINE RETAILER TANNICO QUAFFS €3.8M IN SERIES A FUNDING,” screams the press release, conjuring up an image of a startup spending all of its newly-acquired cash on one giant booze up. Sadly (or luckily for the company’s new backers), this story isn’t that! Read More
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Today’s Deals – Online fashion retailer Grana raises $10M led by Alibaba’s entrepreneurship fund
Grana, a two-year-old online fashion retailer based in Hong Kong, has announced that it has raised $10 million in fresh funding led by Alibaba’s entrepreneurship fund. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Stripe debuts payments in Japan with new investor Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company
Stripe, the startup that lets app publishers, online merchants and other digital businesses include payments features via a few lines of code, is expanding in Asia. After launching in Singapore two weeks ago, the startup is now officially opening for business in Japan. And alongside the Japan launch, Stripe is also picking up a new investor: Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, the largest… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Google Docs for life sciences startup Benchling raises $7 million in growth capital from Thrive, A16z and others
Benchling, a biotech company out of Y Combinator providing cloud-based software for researchers, tells TechCrunch it has raised $7 million in growth funding to continue creating tools to help the science community access research from big pharma and other leaders in the space.
You might think of Benchling as the Google Docs portion of the life sciences industry. While IT solutions software… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Shopify acquires product design firm Boltmade to boost Shopify Plus
Shopify has acquired Waterloo-based Boltmade, the company announced, bringing the digital consulting and product development firm in-house. The acquisition will add Boltmade’s 21-person team, which mostly consists of engineers and designers, to its operations in Waterloo, focusing on Shopify Plus.
Shopify Plus is the e-commerce provider’s “white glove” offering, with… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Hamwells raises €1.2 million for the connected e-shower of the future
When you take your next shower, the water flowing from the faucet may just be recycled. That’s the vision fueling Hamwells, a Netherlands-based startup that launched in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London 2015. In the Battlefield, the company presented their e-shower with a re-circulation mode that recycles each drop of water 7 times, significantly reducing the waste… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Remitly raises another $38M, adds World Bank’s IFC as it pushes into emerging markets
Remitly, a startup co-founded and led by a former executive of Barclays who saw a gap in the market to build money transfer and other financial services for emerging markets and the “unbanked”, is today announcing that it has raised $38.5 million, as well as expansion to seven more countries in Latin America. The funding, which brings the total raised by Remitly to just under… Read More
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