From forgotten frontier to regional innovation hub
Also, Orca Security, Byju’s, Ajaib, and other startups raised funding this week. Source link
Alpha Paw brings in $5.2M to carve out its niche in the pet wellness space – Startups
Pets continue to be big business, and Alpha Paw is the latest to draw investor attention. The Austin-based company raised $5.2 million in Series A funding, led by Nordic Eye, after bootstrapping for the past three years. CEO Ramon van Meer took over the company...
Former Swiggy exec’s crypto startup bags $4m seed funding
Stader Labs already has more than 5,000 active members. Source link
Philippe Laffont’s Coatue is planning to set up an office in Europe
Philippe Laffont, founder and chief investment officer of Coatue Management LLC.Chris Goddney | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — U.S. hedge fund Coatue Management is planning to set up a new office in Europe as part of an effort to capitalize on the continent's...
Singapore logistics startup Qxpress acquires Hong Kong firm
Qxpress is looking to go public in the US as soon as next year. Source link
Ladder raises $100M on a $900M valuation for a platform selling flexible-term life insurance – Startups
Life insurance has had a new lease of life in the era of insuretech, and today one of the companies building a business out of rethinking everything — from target customers through to how to provision and pay for insurance, and how much coverage to give — is...
Jeff Bezos invests in Indonesian e-commerce Ula – Startups
Indonesian e-commerce startup Ula, which has raised over $30 million and courted many high-profile investors since launching last year, has now won the trust of the world’s richest person. The founder of Amazon has invested in the one-and-a-half-year-old...
ESG: a new hope
Also, Ninja Van, Meesho, Momenta, and more startups raised funding this week. Source link
PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools – Startups
An under-the-radar, bootstrapped startup from Vienna, Austria — a hit with developers for technology that underpins user experience for some of the world’s most popular apps — is doubling down on momentum and announcing its first outside investment, in the form...
East Ventures leads $1.1m round of Singapore logistics startup
Luwjistik, incorporated in July this year, counts Ninja Van, J&T Express, and JNE Express as its network partners, reported DailySocial. Source link
Which software consultants do startups love to work with? – Venture Capital
Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Founders and other startup leaders, just fill out this quick survey with a few more...
Community is the new AI – Venture Capital
Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex were all aboard this week with Grace on the dials, which meant that we had a flat lovely time recording Equity for you. Of course, Equity is TechCrunch’s venture capital focused podcast where we dig into the most critical funding...
India Roundup: Ola hires ex-Amazon exec to head new unit, and other news (Updated)
Also, founders of BharatPe and Cred back a VC's equity management platform, Sequoia-backed Bounce enters EV manufacturing space, and more. Source link
The metaverse is coming for Squid Game – Venture Capital
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, the time of the week when we niche down to a single topic. Today? Gaming. Natasha and Danny and Alex got...
Duality nabs $30M for its privacy-focused data collaboration tools, built using homomorphic encryption – Venture Capital
Duality, a startup founded by groundbreaking cryptographers and data scientists that is building tools to make it easier for companies to share data and collaborate with each other without compromising sensitive information, has raised some funding on the back...
William Shatner to fly on Blue Origin’s next human spaceflight on October 12 – Venture Capital
Blue Origin’s next passenger list will include TV and film space exploration veteran William Shatner, along with Blue Origin’s own Audrey Powers, who serves as the company’s Voice President of Mission & Flight Operations. These two will round out the...
The full-stack approach, but this time sans status quo – Venture Capital
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Emerging founders and investors in tech must be exuding extreme main character energy, because this week in tech was all...
Nigerian president offers to lift 4-month Twitter ban under certain conditions – Venture Capital
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 1, 2021! What a week, y’all. With the third quarter of 2021 now behind us, it’s...
LeadIQ’s rapid growth snags venture attention as sales software market stays hot – Venture Capital
This morning LeadIQ, a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation. Other investors in the transaction include Fresco Capital, Strong Ventures, and Eight Road Ventures. LeadIQ frames...
Deliveroo launches 10-minute grocery delivery with Morrisons
A Deliveroo rider near Victoria station on March 31, 2021 in London, England.Dan Kitwood | Getty ImagesLONDON — Deliveroo is jumping into the rapid grocery delivery space with a service that ships fresh food and other goods to shoppers' doors in just 10...
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