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Hitting the ground: What it takes to launch Uber, Hailo and Citymapper in a new city

The Next Web

Uber Having raised a total of $1.5 Beyond North America, Uber has only just got started. Entrepreneur Insider Profiles and Interviews' billion from investors, 21st Century taxi company-cum-’urban logistics platform’ Uber is rapidly expanding around the world. It’s active in a total of 42 countries but mainly just.

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Canadian startup Rose Rocket raises Series A to scale its transport software business

TechCrunch

Freight transportation-focused Rose Rocket recently raised a $25 million round. Per venture data aggregated by Carta , average logistics-themed Series A rounds since the start of 2020 have sported median cash raises of $8 million and post-money valuations of around $50 million. We should probably pay it more heed.

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Livestorm raises $30M for its browser-based meeting and webinar platform

TechCrunch

Video communication startup Livestorm announced today that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Gilles Bertaux told me that the company started out with a focus on webinars before launching a video meeting product as well (which we used for our interview). Image Credits: Livestorm.

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Battery Resourcers raises $70M to grow closed-loop battery supply chain

TechCrunch

Battery Resourcers , a startup that’s developing a closed-loop approach to lithium-ion battery materials, has raised $70 million in mid-round funding to scale its commercial operations across two continents. The company, which is based in Worcester, Massachusetts, doesn’t just recycle batteries.

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Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M pre-Series A

TechCrunch

It has raised a $6.2 And also much larger product offering as we are going to serve not only people in fashion but in every industry where anyone wants to export African products,” CEO Taboure told TechCrunch in an interview. In total, the company, which LoftyInc Capital and other local investors back , has raised $8.1

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Great reads from around the web on September 9th

Amy Sample Ward

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Worldchanging Interview: Jean Russell on Thrivability - Great interview with Jean Russell at Worldchanging! After that talk (which you can hear via the above link), I asked Jean to join me in a brief but enlightening Worldchanging interview." Find me on Delicious for more!

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Deliverect raises $150M at a $1.4B+ valuation to streamline online and offline food orders

TechCrunch

The startup has raised $150 million, a Series D round of funding that values the company at over $1.4 The round comes less than a year after its previous round — a $65 million Series C that it raised last April. It’s fast heading to processing some 100 million orders globally, he added.

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