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Korean micromobility startup Swing grabs $24M for growth, expands to Japan 

TechCrunch

Swing , a South Korean electric scooter and micromobility startup, announced today it has raised $24 million in a Series B round to spur its growth and expansion to Japan. . With the fresh capital, Swing has raised a total of approximately $33 million (40 billion KRW) since its inception in 2019. . Expansion to Japan.

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Japanese sneaker platform SODA raises $56.4M, accquires rival Monokabu

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Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B , SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. Tokyo-based SODA, which runs Japan’s largest sneaker resell platform, lands $22 million led by SoftBank Ventures Asia.

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Tractable raises $60M at a $1B valuation to make damage appraisals using AI

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Tractable , which works with automotive insurance companies to let users take and submit photos of damaged cars that are then “read” to make appraisals, has raised $60 million, a Series D that values Tractable at $1 billion, the company said. will overtake Japan as Tractable’s biggest market soon.

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Japanese healthcare startup Bisu raises $3.2M seed round to launch its lab-on-a-chip product

TechCrunch

The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. The seed funding brings its total raised to $4.3 Cue Health raises $100 million to speed development of rapid, portable COVID-19 diagnostics. and European Union.

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Classiq raises additional funding for its quantum algorithm design tools

TechCrunch

With both the quantum market in Europe and Japan growing quickly, Classiq is focusing its efforts on these geographies right now, in addition to the United States. So what we care about is where the main markets of enterprises that will adopt quantum computing are. If I had to name two, it would be Japan and Germany.

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Sumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market

TechCrunch

The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. Japan Finance Corporation led the debt financing.

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

In August, the startup raised a $60 million A round at a $400 million valuation from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Googles Jeff Dean, OpenAIs Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, and Perplexity. has raised more than $20 million in venture capital so far. Blackbird.AI

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