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Melio, which helps small businesses digitally manage their supplier payments, has raised a further $110 million to expand its offering across the US as the small business shift to digital solutions accelerates, rocketing to a $1.3B valuation in the process. Melio’s monthly active users (MAU) grew by over 2,000% in 2020 - a sign that small businesses are increasingly adopting … [Read more...] about Melio Raises $110M, Reaches $1.3B Valuation as Small Businesses Digitize to Stay in Business

Paystone, a leading payments and integrated software company, announces the closing of $69 million in strategic financing from Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF) and National Bank of Canada. The funds will be used to fuel growth in customer engagement services and electronic payment processing solutions. “This financing round accelerates Paystone’s vision,” says Tarique … [Read more...] about Paystone Closes $69 Million Financing Round

We want to better support founders year round by interviewing and funding startups on their schedule. Apply to interview early for the YC S21 batch! https://t.co/lhReqm3AQC— Y Combinator (@ycombinator) January 14, 2021 … [Read more...] about Apply to interview early for the Y Combinator S21 batch!

Though the past year had a lot of uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the US VC industry demonstrated its resilience and long-term mindset, achieving new records in total exit value, deal value and capital raised by VC funds, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, the authoritative quarterly report on venture capital activity in the … [Read more...] about US Venture Exit Value Achieved $290 Billion in 2020 Alongside Record Years for Investment and Fundraising Activity

CookUnity, the Brooklyn-based food-tech company that introduced the first direct Chef-to-Consumer meal subscription platform, today announced the closing of a $15.5 million Series A investment round. Fuel Venture Capital led the investment round with participation from new and existing investors including seed round lead IDC Ventures. Jeff Ransdell, Founding Partner and … [Read more...] about CookUnity Secures $15.5 Million in Series A Funding

New Canada-Silicon Valley Venture Fund Combines Strengths of Both Raiven Capital, a new cross-border early-stage venture capital firm, today announced their first close. Despite last year’s tumult, the globally focused fund, which invests in early-stage Series A tech companies, exceeded its first closing target of $25M USD. With a final target of $100M USD, Raiven is one of … [Read more...] about Raiven Capital Announces $25M First Close Amid Global Pandemic

Webflow raises $140M, pushing its valuation to $2.1 billion https://t.co/3aiIYpPgrW by @alex— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) January 13, 2021 Eight years ago, Webflow started with three founders stubbornly trying to prove that no code was the future.A future that’s now here.Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $140M in Series B funding — to help us enable everyone to … [Read more...] about Webflow raises $140M, pushing its valuation to $2.1 billion

Collaborating with 32 Organizations and Showcasing 100 Featured Taiwan Startups In 2020, the global economy faced the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US-China trade war. While the economies around the world were critically affected, Taiwan was able to break through the predicament and make extraordinary performances in foreign trade and industry development. … [Read more...] about Taiwan Government Leading 100 Startups in Five Major Industry For CES2021

Checkout.com, the leading Connected Payments™ solutions provider, today announced that it closed a $450 million Series C fundraising round. This gives the business a post-money valuation of $15 billion, making it the fourth largest fintech globally and EMEA's most valuable venture-backed business(1), as the business continues to expand across the … [Read more...] about Checkout.com Triples Valuation to $15bn with $450m Series C Fundraise, Accelerating Global Expansion

CropIn, a leading global artificial intelligence and data-led agri-tech organization empowering stakeholders to reimagine agriculture with data, has raised US$20 million in a Series C funding round led by ABC World Asia, an Asia-focused private equity fund dedicated to evidence-based impact investing. Existing investors Chiratae Ventures, Invested Development and Ankur … [Read more...] about CropIn raises US$20 Million in Series C funding round led by ABC World Asia to advance the reach of its farm management and predictive analytics solutions

The banking platform will launch in the US and further its European reach in 2021 Curve, the London-based fintech that combines multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, today announces it has secured $95 million from a leading group of international investors as part of a successful Series C round. Curve will deploy the investment to expand … [Read more...] about Curve Closes $95m in Equity as it Plans US Launch

The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) announced that 53 technology startups will join global technology leaders in representing Japan at CES 2021, which will take place virtually from Jan. 11-14, 2021. The number of Japanese startups exhibiting at this year’s J-Startup Pavilion, which JETRO organizes, has nearly doubled from a year ago amidst the country’s growing focus … [Read more...] about Japan’s Fast-Growing Innovation Community to Showcase a Record Number of Startups at CES

mindzie, inc. ("mindzie"), provider of business process optimization software, today announced its Seed Capital raise of $2.3 million. The capital will be used to support the company's growth ambitions, the further development of its software platform the mindzie studio, and to expand its Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and algorithms to provide even more value to its customers. … [Read more...] about Dallas startup, provider of business process optimization software, mindzie secures $2.3 Million in seed round

Novo Seeds, the early stage investment and company creation team of Novo Holdings, announced today that its portfolio company CorWave, a medtech company developing an implantable heart pump based on a breakthrough technology, has raised EUR 35 million in a Series C financing. The EIC Fund, a VC fund set up by the European Commission, served as anchor investor and made its … [Read more...] about Novo Seeds Portfolio Company CorWave Raises EUR 35 Million for Breakthrough Heart Pump

Zuoyebang, China's leading online after school education start-up, has raised over US$1.6 Billion in its Series E+ financing from investors including Alibaba, Tiger Global, Softbank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital China, Fountainvest Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers'). Taihecap was Zuoyebang's financial advisor for this round of … [Read more...] about China’s Leading Online After School Education Start-up Zuoyebang Raises Over US$1.6 Billion in Series E+ Financing

Dremio, the innovation leader in data lake transformation, today announced it has raised $135 million in Series D funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1 billion. This preemptive fundraising occurred just nine months after a $70 million round led by Insight Partners in March 2020. The new fundraising round is led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from existing … [Read more...] about Dremio Raises $135 Million in Series D Funding to Drive Data Lake Transformation for Global Enterprises

Enflame Technology, which makes chips designed to process huge amount of data to train AI systems, raises $278.5M Series C from Tencent and others (@arjunkharpal / CNBC)https://t.co/7hR1hWy582https://t.co/5SaPsESs9e— Techmeme (@Techmeme) January 6, 2021 … [Read more...] about Enflame Technology, which makes chips designed to process huge amount of data to train AI systems, raises $278.5M Series C

Digital banking platform Oxygen today announced a $17 million Series A round of funding. The round included Runa Capital, S7V, 1984.vc, EFG Hermes, Rucker Park, and Inventures, in addition to celebrity and prominent fintech investors, including Frank Strauss, Global CEO of the Private & Commercial Bank for Deutsche Bank AG, William Hockey, Co-Founder of Plaid, Ankur Nagpal, … [Read more...] about Oxygen Closes $17 Million Series A Funding Round to Build the Banking Platform for the 21st Century Economy

World-leading general-purpose robotics company Flexiv Ltd. has closed an over 100m USD Series B round with major investors including Meituan, Meta Capital, New Hope Group, Longwood, YF Capital, Gaorong Capital, GSR Ventures and Plug and Play, marking the largest single-round fundraising ever in the field of general-purpose robotics. "The strategic funding from leading … [Read more...] about General-purpose Robotics Company Flexiv Closes Series B Funding of Over 100M USD