TechSpot

JULY 9, 2024

Increasing geopolitical tensions have raised concerns that countries such as Russia, China, and North Korea could target subsea cables during a military crisis. Such a thing is not unprecedented; Yemeni Houthi rebels were suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic in February.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. China is becoming a superpower in the tech industry. Despite geopolitical tensions and recent amendments in CFIUS, it is hard to ignore China.

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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. The most popular card schemes globally are Union Pay, Visa, and Mastercard. Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The rivalry between China’s top online learning apps has become even more intense this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest company to score a significant funding round is Zuoyebang , which announced toda y (link in Chinese) that it has raised a $1.6 billion Series E+ from investors including Alibaba Group.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way. And Kaszek has been at the heart of it all.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The crypto market is showing no signs of slowing down as funds and investors alike continue to deploy massive amounts of capital into the ecosystem. Today’s evidence of the trend: Dragonfly Capital, a crypto-centered investment firm, closed its third venture fund for $650 million, the firm’s managing partner, Haseeb Qureshi, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Moov, a data-fueled marketplace for used manufacturing equipment , has closed a $41 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. Investors joining the round include public semiconductor investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Avenir Growth Fund, and existing investors. With close to $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Prior to the global pandemic, suppliers were extending net terms of 30 days to pay, but at that scale, it is hard to build up credit for small businesses, Murata told TechCrunch. Then with the global pandemic, the pace at which business-to-business payment was moving online was accelerating,” Murata told TechCrunch. trillion by 2028.

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TechNode

MARCH 13, 2025

As China pushes for leadership in robotics, this launch strengthens its position in the global humanoid robotics race. This year, UBTECH announced the establishment of the Humanoid Robot Research Fund with an initial RMB 10 million ($1.38

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

You can count on one hand the number of funds bigger than Tiger Global. billion for its Private Investment Partners 14 fund. From that fund, Tiger Global made more private investments than any other firm last year — about 340 as of late December — roughly one investment per day, according to CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). we also allocated a significant portion of our latest fund for follow-on investment,” Riney said. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The startup, which has now raised $35 million in funding, added UBS as a client in May, giving the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional investor clients access to Lynk’s database and tools. As part of the funding, Lynk will broaden its collaboration with UBS Group. This brings the round’s new total to $29 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

That helped them notice the industry’s strong reliance on China. The Chinese component manufacturers are not cooperating because the ecosystem in China around EVs is fundamentally different from how it is in India. Tiger Global co-led the pre-Series A round of $5.2 Now they secured some much-needed fuel to expand.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Nreal , the well-funded Chinese AR headset maker that’s been making aggressive global expansion, said Thursday that it has raised $15 million from Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster ’s parent company, IICOMBINED. It only debuted in China, where it’s based, in August. the company said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Tiger Global is one of the most prolific investors in India and is a backer of over a third of all unicorn startups in the country. The New York-headquartered firm, which counts India among its top three markets globally, has deployed over $6.5 In Flipkart alone, Tiger Global has invested over $1 billion. billion valuation.

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TechNode

JULY 12, 2024

Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social platform that is increasingly seen as a real-time search engine favored by younger generations, has received financial injections from venture capital firm DST Global in a recent sale of existing shares to current and new investors. Financial Times ]

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings its total raised to $170 million to date, to expedite its global expansion, make acquisitions and increase its headcount, Charlie Sanghoon Shin, co-founder and CEO of Greenlabs, told TechCrunch. Farmers Business Network just raked in a whopping $110 million in Series D funding.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In China in particular, cross-border e-commerce represents a significant potential revenue stream for businesses of all sizes. We’re seeing really strong innovation come out of China, whether it’s in software, gaming, all sorts of digital assets, or physical assets that Chinese businesses are looking to trade internationally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The List joins the social commerce movement with a new app connecting consumers with global luxury brands and retailers to offer a personalized discovery and shopping experience. million in seed funding backed by a group including American Designer and Rachel Zoe, who is both an investor and advisor to the New York-based company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Funds: Natasha’s coverage of fund-of-funds fit into news that SoftBank is turning one if its funds into an evergreen vehicle , and Alex chatted through the numbers about Series A, B and C rounds in the United States. Funds are maturing, experimenting and evolving into interesting vehicles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The latest funding brings its total raised to approximately $761 million and values the company at $3.3 Its previous backers include DST Global, Sequoia Capital China, Hillhouse Capital, Aspex Management, MiraeAsset Venture Investment, and Korea-based strategic investors CJ Logistics and SK Networks. . billion. .

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A Santa Monica-based direct-to-consumers (D2C) outdoor furniture startup company, Outer , announced today its $50 million Series B funding to help more people around the globe to bring their lives back outside. Existing investors, including Sequoia Capital China, Mucker Capital, Mantis VC and Reimagined Ventures, also joined in the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company, which is best known for its electric Smartscooters and swappable battery infrastructure, announced today it will list on Nasdaq through a merger with Poema Global , a SPAC affiliated with Princeville Capital. Gogoro’s SPAC deal comes a few months after it announced major partnerships in China and India.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Soon after graduating, they co-founded Reshape, a venture capital fund with $100 million of assets under management. This latest round adds to $7 million the company raised in seed funding earlier this year. The new funding will go toward retail expansion, vendor partners and technology development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The startup has closed three funding rounds of Series B within the past six months, bringing the company’s total raised to over $70 million. The fresh capital was led by an undisclosed global fintech fund with participation from existing investors East Ventures, GGV Capital, eWTP and Emtek. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the big leaders in buying up and scaling third-party merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplace platforms is announcing a major round of funding today as it continues to expand its ambitions. Upper90, funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., It said that it’s currently on a rate of buying 1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With their services more relevant than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup announced it has raised $14 million in new funding. John Brisco, co-founder and chief executive officer of Coherent, told TechCrunch that the startup has worked with more than 30 insurers in 10 global markets during 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The G2 financing was led by DST Global, with participation from CITICPE, GIC, Temasek, TBP, DCP, Ocean Link, Greenwoods and Danhe Capital. Its goal then was to fund and bring more AI into its products, and improve its user experience. In the two years since, Yuanfudao has doubled its total users to 400 million students across China.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. Funding and activity were centered in a couple of markets and there were just a few growing companies gaining interest. Rhys Spence.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Following a record-breaking second quarter, venture capitalists around the world stayed busy in Q3, investing astronomical sums into global startups. In the coming weeks, TechCrunch will explore the global Q3 venture capital market’s results in detail, by business genre (fintech, edtech, etc.) Lots to come, but this is the first look.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

The aggressive push into new markets is fueled by the $750 million Series A funding round Zeekr raised in February, which shot the automaker’s post-money valuation up to $13 billion. The funds from Zeekr’s Series A were dedicated to technology research and market expansion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Aruna announced today it has raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Prosus Ventures and East Ventures Growth Fund, with participation from SIG and returning investors including AC Ventures, MDI and Vertex Ventures. The platform currently has about 20 product categories and will use its funding to expand into more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. and headed home to start Zilliz in China. Like many Chinese entrepreneurs these days, Xie named his startup in English to mark the firm’s vision to be “global from day one.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. What’s a record year of funding without some unicorns? From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The result of the government fusillade against some of the best-known companies in China was falling share prices. After we checked in on the same question this Monday , SoftBank provided a partial answer, noting yesterday that it is pausing investments in China. That will slow, at least in China. Edtech got hit. Ride-hailing?

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