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Turkey’s first decacorn: Trendyol raises $1.5B at a $16.5B valuation

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Trendyol , an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe. Trendyol founder Demet Suzan Mutlu said the new capital will go toward expansion within Turkey and globally.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. . How does the ongoing affinity/relationship building online and offline impact amounts raised?

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Getir is now worth nearly $12 billion after raising another $768 million

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Originally from Turkey, Getir has quickly expanded its service across Europe and the U.S. That’s why these instant delivery startups have been raising mega rounds of funding. Getir is quite dominant in Turkey as it currently operates in 81 different cities. Overall, Getir manages 1,100 dark stores.

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Turkey’s Ace Games raises $7M to develop casual and ‘hyper casual’ games

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Ace Games , a Turkish mobile gaming company founded by a former Peak Games co-founder, has raised a $7 million seed funding round led by Actera Group. Peak Games, Gram Games and Rollic Games were all acquired by Zynga , showing that Turkey is capable of producing decent exits for gaming startups.

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

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Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. billion by Zynga, it had raised a mere $19 million in 10 years. For Spyke, the outsized round was raised to match the startup’s ambitions.

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Borzo, a delivery startup which focuses on emerging economies, raises $35M

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At the same time, it has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by UAE-based investor Mubadala. Dostavista, the ‘crowdsourced’ same-day delivery service, raises $15M Series B. That left-of-field thinking has seen it expand to countries not typically touched by the bigger delivery startups.

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Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation

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Gorillas , the Berlin-HQ’d startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as ten minutes, has raised $290 million in Series B funding, at a valuation that surpasses $1 billion. founded goPuff — which this week raised another $1.15 Meanwhile, U.S.-founded

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