Dat Bike founder and CEO Son Nguyen Dat Bike is on a journey to reduce the amount of gasoline used in Vietnam. The startup makes electric motorbikes with key components […]
Fundings & Exits
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Back to news homeSumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market
Sumutasu, a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. The company has raised a […]
Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm
Bogota-based payments infrastructure startup Minka has secured $24 million in a funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Kaszek. In an interview, CEO and co-founder Domagoj Rozic described Minka […]
As the pandemic wanes, VCs are investing less in health-focused startups
This year’s global deceleration of the venture capital market is broad, impacting most startup ecosystems, sectors, and stages. If you are building a company in 2022, you should not expect […]
Fintech Roundup: Founders reinventing, startups buying and pre-seed a’growing
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all […]
EdgeDB wants to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps
Databases are an essential part of doing business in the digital world, but not every organization is achieving success with them. In a 2019 Vanson Bourne survey, enterprises said that […]
Tech companies are still going public in Asia, but not enough to halt the global IPO slowdown
Asia had more IPOs than other regions in Q1 2022, but its tally dropped from Q4 2021 Anna Heim 8 hours Sometime in 2021, the world passed the 1,000-unicorn milestone. […]
Amazon acquires India’s GlowRoad in social commerce push
Amazon may be attempting to take on Shopify in the west, but in India, it is gearing up to explore social commerce. Amazon has acquired the Indian social commerce startup […]
Singapore-based healthcare startup Ordinary Folk gets $5M to fight stigma
Ordinary Folk, a Singapore-based telehealth startup dedicated to men and women’s health issues, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A funding from Monk’s Hill Ventures. The funding will be used […]
The venture slowdown is impacting fundraising for startups of every size, sector
Carta data shows breadth of slowdown, and early-stage startups are hardly immune Alex Wilhelm Anna Heim 7 hours The comedown from venture capital’s torrid 2021 is sparing few startups. New […]