TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Per reports, Egyptians spend about 30% of their income on food in a $17 billion restaurant industry, one of the largest in Africa and the Middle East. Following two years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $4.5 million in pre-seed financing — its first venture round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

On top of a $62 million round that closed last year, the company has now raised a $35 million Series C to improve shipping of temperature-sensitive drugs — including COVID-19 vaccines. . The biopharma industry uses more optimistic numbers. Within that industry, there also appear to be three macro-trends, the report continues.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Japan is one of the largest education markets and has enormous potential to grow in the Japanese edtech industry that still relies on the conventional in-person education system, a spokesperson at Riiid told TechCrunch. The Japanese remote learning industry was estimated at $2.6 billion in 2020, increasing 22.4%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

billion from $1 billion just eight months ago as the Indian industrial business-to-business marketplace aggressively scales its offerings in many parts of the world. Hong Kong-based Ward Ferry also participated in the round, bringing its all-time raise to about $470 million. Moglix has more than doubled its valuation to about $2.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Silkhaus , a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 Silkhaus’s engineering team, split across the UAE city and Bangalore, is currently building out its technology stack, the company said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In Africa and the Middle East, most companies in the freight industry still use old-fashioned methods such as spreadsheets, phone calls and emails to manage their shipments. And that’s what Freterium, a YC-backed startup launched in 2020, is trying to build: a holistic approach to solving critical backend challenges of the freight industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. It holds massive untapped potential, and we believe that One Impression is rightly positioned to be a global leader of the influencer industry. “The creator ecosystem is at the cusp of a revolution.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

With $23 million in new backing, the company now plans to take its platform to other countries looking to get their drone industries off the ground. “The drone industry for beyond line of sight, things like food delivery, have been held back by this,” said CEO Michael Healander.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The pre-seed round is an extension of an undisclosed six-figure raise MoneyHash announced last June from investors Ventures Platform, Kepple Africa Ventures, LoftyInc Capital and lead COTU Ventures. MoneyHash clients cut across different industries: e-commerce, travel and tourism, and remittances, among others.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Much of Israel’s high-tech industry has emerged from former members of the country’s elite military intelligence units, such as the Unit 8200 Intelligence division. Israel’s startups industry began emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Israeli startups closed out December 2020 by raising $768 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. “We Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. At the same time, as the venture market slowed dramatically and suddenly, raising capital was much harder. of its staff — five months after raising a $55 million Series B. Ahem, Brex).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

I’m interested in hearing what investors from Intel Capital , GM Ventures and Snow Bull Capital have to say about the industry and what strategic mobility investors are looking for in a startup. Japan’s Terra Drone raised a $70 million Series B led by Mitsui Corporation. Other deals that got my attention….

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund already owns a majority stake in fellow EV startup Lucid Motors, and the UAE and Kuwait have even bigger sovereign funds. The lawyer for Jia who spoke during the hearing did not specify which Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund was interested, and a spokesperson for Faraday Future declined to comment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

As the Ubers of the world continue to scale, a smaller on-demand transportation startup has raised some funding in Germany, underscoring the opportunities that remain for startups in the space targeting specific service niches. The reason that Blacklane has managed to raise at an up round tells another side of the story, however.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Peridotite is normally found miles below sea level, but on the easternmost tip of the Arabian peninsula, specifically the northern coast of Oman, tectonic action has raised hundreds of square miles of the stuff to the surface. Third is sourcing the CO2 itself. We’ll know more once 44.01 completes its pilot work.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 15, 2025

[Photo courtesy of Joby Aviation] Up in the air Jobys air taxis, which have been shown off during exhibition flights in New York and other cities, are catching a lot of lift recently , with the company having inked deals with Uber, Delta Air Lines, and Toyota, along with raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.

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