Meet Singular, a new VC firm based in Paris that just finished raising its initial fund. The firm was founded by two former Alven partners — Raffi Kamber and Jérémy Uzan. They have some ambitious goals and an interesting investment model that could help them...
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March 29, 2021 albert
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VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news and entertainment app Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, said on Monday it has raised over $ 100 million as part of a Series H financing round from Qatar Investment Authority and Glade Brook Capital Partners. The...
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February 8, 2021 albert
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The Chinese Uber for trucks Manbang announced Tuesday that it has raised $ 1.7 billion in its latest funding round, two years after it hauled in $ 1.9 billion from investors including SoftBank Group and Alphabet Inc’s venture capital fund CapitalG. The news came fresh...
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November 24, 2020 albert
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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. How one VC firm wound up...
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September 6, 2020 albert
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Here’s a match made in…I don’t know, somewhere on the blockchain, I guess. Pioneering space startup Planetary Resources was acquired by, of all things, a blockchain firm this week. ConsenSys, a Brooklyn based firm that specializes in all things Ethereum issued an announcement noting that...
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November 4, 2018 albert
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As part of its goal to use more renewable energy in its datacenters, Microsoft said it has entered an agreement with Singapore-based clean energy firm Sunseap. The value of Microsoft’s investment was not disclosed, but an announcement today said it will create “the single-largest solar...
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March 1, 2018 albert
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Qualcomm was hit by a near $ 1 billion fine for violating China’s antitrust regulations in 2015. That was rock bottom — and another example of a U.S. tech firm coming unstuck in China — but the chip-maker spent 2016 steadily sewing up licensing agreements,...
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January 3, 2017 albert
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Line, the Asian messaging app company known for its cute animated stickers, is developing a digital butler services as it bids to boost its revenue with standalone apps and services. Read More TechCrunch
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February 1, 2016 albert
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