TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

“In this round, it was important for us to bring in strategic money — money is important, funding is important and this is our way to scale — but also, in this market, strategic partners are important. If I had to name two, it would be Japan and Germany. Classiq raises $10.5M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

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 million USD) in Series A funding. Spiral Ventures Asia Fund I and Beyond Next Ventures. This brings the startup’s total raised so far to $4.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

The startup just raised $8.1 The round brings the outfit’s total funding to date to $13.7 The round brings the outfit’s total funding to date to $13.7 China and Japan and intends to enter the U.S. Image Credits: indent Indent raises $8.1M Investors like Indent’s conversion rates, seemingly.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO.

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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., The company, founded in 2018, has now raised $3.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) , a deep-tech investment firm, announced the first close of its fifth fund, which is expected to total 30 billion JPY (or about $275 million USD) by June 2021. German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. million USD) in pre-Series A funding from Rakuten Ventures and Beyond Next Ventures to build a B2B logistics platform for farmers that sell to restaurants, hotels and other F&B (food and beverage) businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

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. million (3.5 billion yen) in equity and $11.6 million (1.5 Shimizu added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. The funding will go toward the second and third of the planned missions, scheduled for 2023 and 2024. Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B , SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. Launched in 2018, SODA runs SNKRDUNK , one of Japan’s largest sneaker reselling platforms with about 2.5 Along with its new funding, SODA announced it has acquired rival Monokabu.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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. Today’s funding was led by aSTART, and will be used to help the company continue to establish its global offices and increase the team to more than 140 people.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The founders wanted to address the issue in the consumer finance industry in Japan and launched SmartBank. In Japan, banks do not offer joint accounts for couples. Unlike other countries, traditional banks in Japan don’t offer joint accounts,” SmartBank CEO Horii told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The latest round, which brings its total funding raised to $83 million, comes approximately a year after raising $14.4 The funds will also be used to acquire companies in those regions, said Seki, who did not disclose the company’s valuation. The company also could raise another funding before its IPO, Seki added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

iSTOX , a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million. million in funding. Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. Insight Partners and Georgian Partners co-led the round and it brings the total raised by the company to $115 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The round, led by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), follows last year’s $170 million raise. It pushes the company’s total funding to north of $600 million, while placing its valuation “well” north of $1 bililion, earning its place as Europe’s first vertical farming unicorn. Canada, Japan and additional parts of Europe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. Canada and Japan. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ride Vision , an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. The company has now raised a total of $10 million. The company has now raised a total of $10 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker. Indonesia, China, Philippines, Thailand and Japan. The funds will go toward expanding the 50-person company’s sales and marketing team — both of which have been fairly small portions of the company’s overall headcount. Skycatch Raises $13.2M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

And the evidence comes today with the news that Xayn has now raised almost $12 million in Series A funding led by the Japanese investors Global Brain and KDDI (a Japanese telecommunications operator), with participation from previous backers, including the Earlybird VC in Berlin.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Zhang told TechCrunch that the new funding will be used for Airwallex’s United States launch in the second quarter of this year, expand its payment coverage to new regions like the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, and add more products, including physical cards.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This morning Dexterity announced a $140 million equity funding and debt Series B, led by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins. Obvious Ventures, B37 Ventures and Presidio Ventures also participated in the round, which brings the company’s total funding north of $200 million and sets its valuation at $1.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

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 Its customer base started in Southeast Asia, before expanding into China, Japan, the United States and Europe. Both will join Ai Palette’s board.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

We raised, maybe? Byju announced an $800 million funding back in March, but Manish reports that the startup is $250 million short of hitting that goal. Like SmileDirect, but Spanish : Impress is raising a $125 million Series B round in an effort to bring digital orthodontics to European markets, Mike reports.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As the Israel-based startup announced today, it has now raised a $2.8 million seed funding round led by crowdfunding platform OurCrowd ‘s incubator Labs/02 and India’s Reliance Industries, in addition to the Israeli Innovation Authority and a number of private investors. Image Credits: MagniLearn.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Shypyard , a startup developing business planning products and services for brands and direct-to-consumer merchants, closed on $3 million in seed funding. Last week, Ghost announced new funding for its marketplace approach to managing excessive inventory. They followed Syrup Tech, which raised $6.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The company soon attracted seed funding from Y Combinator and just this week, it announced the completion of a pre-A round of $2.5 Moreover, the startup will spend the money on securing health-related certificates and adding Japan to its sourcing regions. .” The demand gave Weng a business idea. Returnees adapt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Paytm has raised $1.104 billion in India’s largest-ever anchor round as part of its initial public offering, which is also shaping up to be the nation’s largest, as the poster child of the Indian startup ecosystem moves closer to listing in the public markets. billion capital it is looking to raise from the IPO. to $28.85).

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Today his startup — which builds AI-based personalized learning, including test prep, for students — is announcing a major funding round to help it position itself as a player in that process. Seoul-based Riiid has closed a funding round of $175 million, an equity round coming from a single backer, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Bear has seen some success in deployment of late, including a bid to get its system in more restaurants in Japan. Japan has long eyed robots as a way to keep business moving for its aging population, and the pandemic only served to accelerate those needs. This latest round brings Bear’s full funding up around $117 million to date.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Tokyo-based SODA , which runs sneaker reselling platform SNKRDUNK , has raised a $22 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Part of the funding will be used to expand into other Asian countries. Most of SNKRDUNK’s transactions are within Japan now, but it plans to become a cross-border marketplace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Einride counts EQT Ventures and NordicNinja VC, a fund backed by Panasonic, Honda, Omron and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, among its investors. Along with backing from Ericsson Ventures, Norrsken Foundation, Plum Alley Investments and Plug and Play Ventures the startup has raised $32 million to date.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Montreal-based YPC Technologies today announced that it has raised a $1.8 Led by Hike Ventures and Real Ventures, the funding includes participation from Toyota AI Ventures and Uphill Capital, among others, designed to help the company pilot its kitchen robotics technology. million seed round.

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