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Climate change is intensifying across the globe, and one of the most challenging cases is Japan. Japan has been something of a gem in One Concern’s market development the past few years. Japan has been something of a gem in One Concern’s market development the past few years. The company was founded in 2015.
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.
In 2020, some athletes raised concerns with the Japanese Olympic Committee after finding infrared images of themselves circulated online accompanied by sexually explicit commentary, as reported by The Japan Times. In response, the committee has teamed up with sportswear giant Mizuno and a couple of other brands to co-develop a.
And that is giving a big bump to education startups, which are raising money to capitalise on the growth opportunity. It’s not clear if the round has closed, and whether the full amount was raised (or indeed, more). India’s online learning platform Unacademy raises $150 million at $1.45 billion valuation.
Secai Marche , a farm-to-table fulfillment platform serving farmers in Japan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has raised 210 million Japanese yen (about $1.6 This brings the startup’s total raised so far to $4.5 This brings the startup’s total raised so far to $4.5 million USD) in Series A funding.
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The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Conversational AI startup Yellow Messenger raises $20M Series B from Lightspeed.
Anyspheres Cursor tool, for example, helped advance the genre from simply completing lines or sections of code to building whole software functions based on the plain language input of a human developer. Cursor also can access a developers or companys existing code base as a way of fine-tuning code suggestions. Blackbird.AI
These preferences, though, raise questions about what support seniors want and need in their current homes. Japan has advanced the use of robotics specifically for this purpose, with mixed results. The practice of aging in place aligns with preferences for familiar places and routines and preserves our sense of independence.
Today, Israeli startup Vdoo — which has been developing AI-based services to detect and fix those kinds of vulnerabilities in IoT devices — is announcing $25 million in funding, money that it plans to use to help it better address the wider issue as it applies to all connected objects.
Jakarta-based fintech Akulaku has raised $200 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest bank in Japan. Earlier this year, Akulaku raised $100 million in funding from Siam Commercial Bank as part of another strategic investment. Founded in 2016, its target is to serve 50 million users by 2025.
Japanese startup ispace has raised $46 million in a fresh round of Series C funding as it looks to complete three lunar lander missions in three years. It will deliver a 22-pound rover for Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, a lunar robot for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and payload from three Canadian companies.
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.
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. If I had to name two, it would be Japan and Germany. Classiq raises $10.5M Series A round for its quantum software development platform.
The aerospace company was founded in 2020 by Louis de Gouyon Matignon, Thibaud Elziere and Andrew Nutter, whose goal is to develop a low-cost solar sail that would use light as a means of propulsion for spacecraft. Now multiple organizations apart from Gama are developing new solar sail missions.
In one of the latest developments, Bisu — a Tokyo-headquartered healthcare startup that has built a lab-grade testing device that can be used at home for diagnostics that translate into actionable health data — has raised $3.2 The seed funding brings its total raised to $4.3 and European Union.
Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development.
Akros just raised $2.3 million from Z Venture Capital , the corporate venture capital wholly owned by Z Holdings , which also owns the Japanese messaging app Line and internet portal Yahoo Japan. The latest funding, which brings Akros’s total amount raised to $6.1 In March, Akros raised $3.75
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Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. The startup, whose clients include Danone, Kellogg’s, Cargill and Dole, announced today it has raised an oversubscribed $4.4 It brings Ai Palette’s total raised to $5.5 Both will join Ai Palette’s board.
CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.
The South Korea-based startup announced today it has raised an $18 million Series A led by returning investor Must Asset Management, at a valuation of $90 million. the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and Singapore. They developed Ringle based on the challenges they faced as non-native English speakers and graduate students in the U.S.
The South Korea and Japan-based startup automates front and backend processes including accommodation reservation, room management and front desk duties, and it will be using the funds to continue expanding its business. It entered Japan in 2017, for example, by acquiring several Japanese hospitality management companies.
Oasys, a Japan- and Singapore-based startup that’s building a blockchain for gaming developers, has just raised $20 million. Infrastructure developers like Solana, Avalanche and Polygon are trying to make blockchain services more scalable. Singapore has emerged as a crypto hub in Asia in recent years.
The startup just raised $8.1 million and it will be used to continue developing its video platform. million and it will be used to continue developing its video platform. China and Japan and intends to enter the U.S. Image Credits: indent Indent raises $8.1M million (10.5
With this round, Ubie has raised a total of $76 million since its inception in 2017. Investors in the latest funding include Sogo Medical, AAIC Investment, Japan Impact Investment, Rakuten Capital, Shoko Chukin Bank, Japan Finance Corporation and Mizuho Bank. Japan’s health-tech Ubie wants to fuel its U.S
Tokyo-based SODA , which runs sneaker reselling platform SNKRDUNK , has raised a $22 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Most of SNKRDUNK’s transactions are within Japan now, but it plans to become a cross-border marketplace. StockX raises $275M Series E, valuing the retailer at $2.8B.
Octopus will now launch as a brand in Japan with its trademark 100% renewable electricity operation, which uses an innovative AI and data-based platform to balance loads around the grid. by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% Octopus will own 30% of the venture, with Tokyo Gas owning the majority. in the U.K.),
Founded this year to focus on neurodegenerative diseases, Neuroglee announced today it has raised $2.3 one of Japan’s largest pharmaceutical companies, and Kuldeep Singh Rajput, the founder and chief executive officer of predictive healthcare startup Biofourmis. million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Eisai Co.,
When travel platform KKday raised the first part of its Series C in September 2020 , the travel landscape was very different. We plan to use the new funding to double down on expanding our footprint in key markets, including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Asia,” founder and CEO Ming Chen told TechCrunch. “In million travelers.
This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.
On-orbit service and logistics startup Astroscale has raised a $51 million Series E funding round , bringing its total raised to date to $191 million thus far.
Co-founder and chief executive officer TK Chen told TechCrunch that FunNow originally planned to start raising its Series B in 2020, before COVID hit. We kept innovating, developing the app, developing more functions and also acquired a great team in Southeast Asia, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, and also in Hong Kong,” said Chen. “We
“Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. The company also could raise another funding before its IPO, Seki added.
UTEC currently has about $780 million in total assets under management, and says this makes it one of the largest venture capital funds focused on science and tech in Japan, and one of the largest deep-tech funds in Asia. German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor.
The company keeps a development force in Shenzhen and is headquartered in Singapore. raises $50M. billion last year. Airgram has just closed its Series A funding round of $10 million as it gears up for an entry into North America. Boosted by the pandemic, meeting transcription service Otter.ai
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Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. Terra Drone’s UT drone for inspection is certified as a ship inspection by the International Register of Shipping , the Japan-based startup said.
Drone delivery startup Zipline, a company that got its start delivering medical supplies across Africa, has raised $250 million in new funding. This latest round has vaulted the company’s valuation to $2.75 billion and will fuel further expansion of its logistics networks in Africa and the United States.
Legacy developers and gamers are calling play-to-earn games Ponzi schemes, while crypto-believers say games that incorporate “tokenomics” are the future for empowering players and creators. GFR Fund, owned by Japan’s mobile gaming firm GREE, also participated.
The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). Klarna, which has long been seen as the most valuable startup in Europe (in terms of paper valuation) raised money at a valuation of nearly $46 billion in June.
Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. million and an additional $1.2
billion (300 billion yen), mostly in cash, to enhance its business in Japan. After the acquisition, the Japan-based company will continue to operate its existing business and maintain the brand while the leaders, Paidy’s president and CEO Riku Sugie and founder and executive chairman of Paidy Russel Cummer, keep their positions.
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