TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Further confirmation that the esports market is booming amid the pandemic comes today with the news that esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised what it describes as “close to” $100 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tencent Holdings. SPACE in Seoul, South Korea.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The economy may be showing many signs of contraction right now, but many companies still need to do business internationally. Jack Zhang — Airwallex’s CEO who co-founded the company with Xijing Dai, Lucy Liu and Max Li — told TechCrunch that business has been on the up in the last year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. Cross-border fintech Airwallex raises $100M Series D extension at new valuation of $2.6B.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In total, Flutterwave has raised $225 million and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding. . based payments company with offices in Lagos and San Francisco, Flutterwave helps businesses build customizable payments applications through its APIs. Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. . billion ($8.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

There has been a flurry of investments in startups focused on acquiring third-party sellers on Amazon and helping them build their businesses. The New York City-based startup has raised $160 million in debt and equity in a Series A round that it says will fund its “aggressive growth plans.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

China’s edtech crackdown continued over the weekend , with the country’s ruling party setting new rules for online tutoring companies; they can no longer go public and will be forced to become nonprofit entities. Bitcoin had a great weekend, however. Chinese edtech stocks around the world fell. Shares fell.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. Today, it’s announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Spero Ventures. Bambuser raises $45M after shifting focus to live video shopping.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China. Buildots raises $16M to bring computer vision to construction management.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. China postpones Ant’s colossal IPO after closed-door talk with Jack Ma.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Other investors include VMS Group from Hong Kong, Chinese private equity firm Youshan Capital, as well as existing investors Lightspeed China and U.S.-based Much of the top developer talent in China has gotten just as expensive as their counterparts in Western countries, observed Wang, who holds a PhD in machine learning from Princeton.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Katana , an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. End of ‘made in China’ era. In short, the ‘made in China’ era is ending.” Katana: Inventory overview Image Credits: Katana.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Lalamove will extend its network to cover more small Chinese cities after raising $515 million in Series E funding, the on-demand logistics company announced on its site. The round was led by Sequoia Capital China, with participation from Hillhouse Capital and Shunwei Capital. All three are returning investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Zeals , a Tokyo-based startup that lets businesses communicate with their customers via its chat application, said Thursday it has secured $27.2 The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 The coronavirus pandemic has fueled messaging apps to be the medium for personal, business or commerce to interact with each other.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Existing investors Volkswagen AG’s heavy-truck business The Traton Group and Navistar also participated. TuSimple has raised $648 million since its founding in 2015. TuSimple raised $55 million in 2017 with plans to use those funds to scale up testing to two full truck fleets in China and the United States.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

The forum connects smaller businesses to factories, supply chain experts, designers, engineers, etc. To help accelerate its own vision, Gembah has raised an $11 million Series A, led by local firm ATX Venture Partners along with Silverton, Flexport, Brett Hurt, Jim Curry and Dan Graham. to help speed up the process. It follows a $3.28

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Airwallex , the fintech company for cross-border businesses, announced today it has added $100 million more to its Series D round, bumping its valuation up to $2.6 This latest extension brings Airwallex’s Series D round to $300 million, and total equity raised so far to $500 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

What a busy weekend we missed while mostly hearing distant explosions and hugging our dogs close. Here’s a sampling of what we tried to recap on the show: Didi vs. China: The Chinese government’s crackdown on Didi continued over the weekend, after announcing a cybersecurity review of the company on Friday. Chat tomorrow.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses that is backed by Banco Santander — led the round for the Monterrey, Mexico-based startup. Nowports raises $5.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Today came the latest development in that story: HungryPanda , which makes a Mandarin-language app specifically targeting Chinese consumers outside of China, has raised $70 million to continue its global expansion in delivering food from Chinese restaurants and Asian grocery stores targeting the Chinese diaspora. The reasons?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Most recently, we covered the $5 million raise of one such bank — First Boulevard. Co-founder and CEO Ken Lian came to the United States from China in 2008 to attend college. The one-year-old startup also has a social component, giving customers a way to support Asian-American businesses and organizations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. This news comes three months after The Information reported that the company was in talks to raise “up to $400 million at a $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of them was Singapore-based Endowus , which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

For several businesses globally, the answer to that question is increasingly Zetwerk , a Bangalore-based startup. On Wednesday, the Indian startup said it has raised $120 million in a Series D financing round led by existing investors Greenoaks Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Voila , a startup building infrastructure for social commerce, is bringing concepts from China’s e-commerce market to the U.S. To date, Voila has raised $7.5 Voila founder Ke Shang first moved from China to the U.S. “But while I was in China, I didn’t waste any time. to attend college.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading startup, said on Monday it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round at a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. The startup’s business hasn’t been dampened by the recent slump in prices.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. According to him, recent global events like Visa and Mastercard pulling out from Russia, leaving China’s UnionPay to fill in the void, have made it evident that payments are a politicized endeavor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s now raised a $3 million seed round led by Fly Ventures and solar entrepreneur Nick Boyle, while previous investor Metavallon VC is also participating. Tech investors see bugs as a big business as Ÿnsect raises $125 million. Food waste is also the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gas (GHG) after the US and China.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The company just raised a $6 million Series A round, led by Gobi Partners, Pacific Century Group and Complex China, to strengthen its foothold in the U.S. Other competitors have a C2B2C business model and mainly work with individual sellers with unverified supply sources,” Yip told TechCrunch. valuation in Series F raise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Clothing, electronics, toys, automobiles, musical instruments, furniture — you name it and you’ll find a manufacturer in China who can turn your intangible concept into mass-manufacturable reality in mere days. China is also home to one of the world’s largest e-commerce and tech ecosystems. What’s different about Chinese D2C?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

and nearly 870 million active buyers — although recent growth has been slowing on the back of more competition and the weaker performance of China’s economy overall. China’s Pinduoduo, he said, sometimes makes as little as 0.5% “We are building a supply chain in China where we have a team ex-Wish guys.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The smaller firm had raised north of $60 million while private, giving us a little context on the company’s exit price. Well, we got a little hint of that in early Q1 2022 venture capital data from China. A digest of legal startups that TechCrunch has its eyes on : Every startup sector is busy these days, it feels.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Now China’s embassy in India is saying that all of these investigations that India is doing into Chinese firms are bad for business. Talk about your good business models! Happeo raised $26 million to create an intranet portal for your company to connect employees with all of the apps, Kyle writes. The advantages?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Deal of the week The battery business keeps attracting capital. The company raised around $1.2 The company has raised $9 billion in debt and equity since 2017, including $1.1 Other deals that caught my attention … Accure , a startup that uses AI to predict lithium-ion battery failures, raised $7.8

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm have been raising concerns to regulators about Nvidia’s Arm acquisition , according to reports by CNBC and Bloomberg. The companies have approached regulators in the US, EU, UK, and China, reportedly with concerns that Nvidia could change how Arm licenses out its chipmaking technology.

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