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Turkey’s first decacorn: Trendyol raises $1.5B at a $16.5B valuation

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Trendyol , an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. . billion in a massive funding round that values the company at $16.5

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Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B in revenue on net loss of $270M

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Other investors include the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Wellington Management, and the Qatar Investment Authority, according to Crunchbase. The company had 19,385 agents on its platform as of Dec. Prior to the IPO, SoftBank’s Vision Fund holds slightly more than a one-third stake in the company.

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Impact raises $150M at a $1.5B valuation as affiliate and other marketing partnerships come into their own

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Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is leading this round, with Providence Public also participating. Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is leading this round, with Providence Public also participating. “We started as a platform that was mostly used in a private marketplace setting,” said David A. .”

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Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

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Alex Rinke, Bastian Nominacher and Martin Klenk launched the company as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, and in 2012, Celonis joined the SAP Startup Focus program, an accelerator for analytics startups building new applications on the SAP HANA platform. Other participants include Activant Capital, Arena Holdings, T.

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Fanatics reveals NFL was biggest backer in $1.5B round announced last month at $27B valuation

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Fanatics added that other major investors in the round included Major League Baseball (MLB) and its owners, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), the National Hockey League, Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai via his fund Blue Pool Capital and the Qatar Investment Authority.

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Indian edtech giant Byju’s raises $250 million in fresh funding

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The company, India’s most valuable startup, declined to comment on the valuation but said Qatar’s sovereign fund, Qatar Investment Authority, participated in the round. It did not identify other backers.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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We hope to work on this thorny challenge further with our partner, the Mada Center, in Qatar, and benefit others throughout the region, such as the members served by our new partner, Emirates Association for the Visually Impaired, in the United Arab Emirates. Clearly, more are needed, but it’s a solid start. Is Spanish more your bag?

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