Index Ventures' trio of new funds leads to $3 billion, and more TikTok
Index Ventures has closed a trio of new funds: a $900 million early-stage fund, a $2 billion growth-stage fund and a previously announced $200 million seed-stage fund. The close gives Index $3 billion in new capital, its largest tranche yet, to deploy into emerging startups and existing portfolio c
Obé Fitness raises $15M for its personality-driven exercise platform
Obé Fitness' co-founders/co-CEOs Mark Mullett and Ashley Mills toss around the word “entertrainment” a lot. For the record, it's not a reference to the Butler County, Ohio-based amusement park that serves as the home of the “world's largest train display,” but rather one of tho
Allocate banks $5M to open up venture capital fund access
The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. Family offices and accredited investors are eager to get involved in high-quality funds, but face hurdles like access to fund managers.
Enter Allocate. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang
Visa acquires Currencycloud, which makes APIs for remittances and currency transfers, in a $963M deal
A year and a half after Currencycloud raised $80 million in a round that included Visa, the London-based developer of APIs that power remittance and currency exchange services is getting even closer to the financial services giant. Today, Visa announced that it would acquire Currencycloud in a deal
Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to launch
Tailor Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding.
GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital
Untitled Ventures joins the scramble for Russian & Eastern European startups with a $118M warchest
Sorry Mr. Putin, but there's a race on for Russian and Eastern European founders. And right now, those awful capitalists in the corrupt West are starting to out-gun the opposition! But seriously… only the other day a $100 million fund aimed at Russian-speaking entrepreneurs appeared, and othe
Yoobic raises $50M for its chat and communications app aimed at frontline and service workers
Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days, but a lot has been left on the table when it comes to frontline workers. Today, one of the software companies that has built a popular app for that frontline crowd to beco
B2B social management platform Oktopost raises $20M growth round with Expedition
With the pandemic forcing people online, social media use exploded, for obvious reasons. And with that, the opportunity to reach audiences and push messaging. More brand-oriented platforms such as Sprinkler, Sprout Social and Hootsuite have obviously risen in use, but so did traffic to Oktopost, a
India’s BlackBuck valued at $1 billion in $67 million fundraise
India's trucking system has a big inefficiency problem that continues to drag the economy. BlackBuck, one of the handful of startups that is digitizing the freight and logistics across India, has just attained unicorn status after securing new funds.
Tribe Capital, IFC Emerging Asia Fund and VE
Indonesian B2B marketplace GudangAda raises more than $100M in new funding
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GudangAda, a Jakarta-based marketplace that brings wholesalers closer to retail stores and other buyers, announced it has closed a Series B of more than $
Indonesia “sea-to-table” platform Aruna hooks $35M led by Prosus and East Ventures Growth Fund
When Aruna's founders first met at university, they wanted to find a way to use their studies in information technology to help family members who were running small fisheries. Indonesia is one of the world's largest fisheries producers, but the industry is very fragmented. This means fishe
Daily Crunch: India’s most valuable startup buys US-based digital reading platform Epic for $500M
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Rivian plans to install EV chargers in Tennessee’s 56 state parks
Rivian electric vehicle charging stations are coming to yet another state park system. The EV startup said it would install its so-called “waypoint” chargers at all of Tennessee's 56 state parks, just four months after announcing a similar agreement with the state of Colorado.
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Michael Arrington’s next act
As longtime technewss readers know well, Michael Arrington co-founded technewss and Crunchbase, as well as the venture fund CrunchFund, which was later renamed Tuesday Capital. But In 2017, Arrington announced that he was shifting gears and becoming a full-time crypto investor, and despite a vola