Highland Europe’s new €332 million fund promised to help fill the €10-30 million ‘growth gap’, and, true to its word, the VC firm’s latest invest sees it lead a €27 million ($30m) Series A round in London-based Condeco. The startup offers what is calls workspace utilisation and meeting room scheduling software to blue-chip clients. Read More
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A new startup from one of the founders of Rocket Internet’s beauty and wellness marketplace Vaniday is de-cloaking today. Convargo, launching in France, is the latest attempt to bring Uber-like convenience to the shipping industry, by connecting shippers with truckers. Read More
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ClearTax, which helps Indians file their tax returns online with minimum stress, is on a roll this year. The Bengaluru-based company, which graduated Y Combinator two years ago, announced a $12 million Series A round today, just one month after closing a $2 million seed round following an initial $1.3 million raise. Read More
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London-based startup Beamery, formerly known as Seed.Jobs, has raised $2 million in a seed round from Edenred Capital Partners and Grupa Pracuj, a human resources tech firm. Beamery makes software that helps recruiters or employers identify, get connected to and nurture relationships with prospective hires, long before they apply for a job. The company’s client roster includes employers… Read More
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Collective is announcing today that it has closed a $34M growth round led by Columbia Partners with participation from Accel Partners, Greycroft and iNovia. The company has raised close to $100M in debt and equity since 2005.
The money will be put to work on the company’s new product, Visto. The recently launched platform brings additional transparency to the opaque adtech space. Read More
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Microsoft, hot on the heels of the news that it is buying LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, has announced yet another acquisition, this time in the area of natural language and artificial intelligence: the company has purchased Wand Labs, a startup that develops messaging apps — and specifically technology behind them that lets them act more intelligently (beyond and alongside our own… Read More
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Dutch startup Fixico is using the smartphone’s ubiquity to power a platform that connects car owners whose car has suffered cosmetic damage to bodywork repair shops that can polish out the scratches or hammer out the dent and return their pride and joy to its former glory. Read More
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Sometimes the world of tech news makes you sit back in disbelief and wonder what can happen next. There was once a time, long in the past, when Uber raising a billion dollars in funding stood out as a huge topic of discussion, a landmark of where things were moving to. Well, we’re there now. These days, the company can pull in a record $3.5 billion round and precious few eyebrows… Read More
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China Life, Asia’s largest insurance firm, isn’t the only Uber investor to double dip and put money into its Chinese rival Didi via its blockbuster $7.2 billion round announced this week. New York-based investment firm BlackRock also partook in the fundraising, which values Didi at $28 billion, a source close to the deal told TechCrunch. Read More
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Private equity firms have certainly been flexing their muscles this year, whether Thomas Bravo snagging Qlik for $3 billion or Vista Equity Partners grabbing Marketo for 1.9 billion and Ping Identity for another $600 million. Apparently Provident Strategic Growth, the growth investment arm of Provident Equity didn’t want to be left out and today they announced a $130 million investment… Read More
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