Baidu, China’s largest search engine, is may grow its presence in India by purchasing stakes in Zomato, BookMyShow, and BigBasket. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Moneybox Scores $3M Seed To Make It Easy For Millennials To Save And Invest
Yet-to-launch Moneybox is a U.K. startup that wants to encourage millennials — who might not be thinking too much about their financial futures — to save and invest. It reckons the key to this is a mobile app that reduces the friction inherent with opening a stocks and shares ISA (Individual Savings Account) and perhaps ingeniously lets you round-up your ‘spare change’… Read More
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Today’s Deals – CarTrade Gets $145M To Ride India’s Flourishing Used Vehicle Market
CarTrade, a classified site for car dealers in India, has scored an impressive $145 million in new funding to fuel new acquisitions and expand its products. The round was led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek and March Capital, with participation from returning investor Warburg Pincus. Read More
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Today’s Deals – SmashFly, A Service That Looks To Snag New Hires More Effectively, Raises $22M
Mike Hennessy thinks finding potential recruits is just like marketing — you have to keep them interested and snatch them at the right time. That’s why he started SmashFly, a startup that manages inbound interest from potential recruits and keeps them engaged with a company that’s eventually hoping to convert them to an employee. To do that, SmashFly has raised $22 million in… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Travel Search Site Skyscanner Raises $192M For International Expansion
Travel search engine Skyscanner announced today that it has raised £128 million (about $192 million). The Edinburgh-based company did not disclose its valuation, but the Financial Times reported that it has hit unicorn status and is now worth $1.6 billion. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Investors Feed Datadog A Hefty $94.5 million Round
Every startup needs a steady diet of funding to keep it strong and growing. Datadog, a monitoring service that helps customers bring together data from across a variety of infrastructure and software is no exception.
Today it announced a massive $94.5 million Series D Round. The company would not discuss valuation.
The round was led by ICONIQ Capital. Existing investors Index Ventures… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Tokyo-based Sansan Scores $16.9M To Help Companies Wrangle Business Cards
Tokyo-based Sansan has raised a $16.9 million Series C to help companies store and manage information scanned from business cards. The funding, which brings Sansan’s total funding so far to $35.8 million, was led by DCM Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures (the investment arm of the enterprise software company), and Nissay Capital. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Indian E-commerce Platform Shopclues Claims $1.1B Valuation After New Funding, Plans IPO
Indian e-commerce company Shopclues has raised a Series E that the company says boosts its valuation to $1.1 billion. The round was led by GIC, the Singaporean government’s sovereign wealth fund, with participation from returning investors Tiger Global and Nexus Venture Partners. Shopclues says that this is the last round of venture capital it will raise before holding an initial… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Insurance Brokerage App FinanceFox Raises $5.5M Led By Salesforce Ventures
Like Knip, FinanceFox is another startup founded in Switzerland that is moving the insurance brokerage process online. Its mobile app lets you manage of all your existing insurance and get advice regarding gaps in your coverage or ways to save money on your insurance requirements going forward. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Singtel Innov8’s New Program Seeks Startups Tackling Business Problems
Asian telecom giant Singtel has introduced a new program aimed at increasing its interaction with tech startups worldwide. Read More
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