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Singapore-based Volopay accelerates APAC and MENA expansion with $29M Series A

Singapore-based Volopay accelerates APAC and MENA expan...

Volopay, a Singapore-based fintech startup, raised a $29 million Series A in deb...

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The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M is the most geographically diverse yet

The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M...

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued a...

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Daily Crunch: Asian and Hispanic e-grocer Weee! bags $425 million Series E

Daily Crunch: Asian and Hispanic e-grocer Weee! bags $4...

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important start...

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Lucid rolls back production goals even as demand for luxury EV rises

Lucid rolls back production goals even as demand for lu...

Earnings season rolled along today with notes from Lucid Motors’ fourth-quarter ...

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BharatPe founder Ashneer Grover resigns from board amid turmoil at Indian fintech

BharatPe founder Ashneer Grover resigns from board amid...

Ashneer Grover, a founder and the public face of BharatPe, has resigned from the...

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Leverage early investors when raising a Series A, says DeepScribe’s Akilesh Bapu

Leverage early investors when raising a Series A, says ...

"When I walked out of the meeting, I went immediately to one of my partners, and...

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The PR boss behind Groupon, Lemonade and Squarespace shares how to land press coverage at TechCrunch Early Stage

The PR boss behind Groupon, Lemonade and Squarespace sh...

Fledgling early-stage founders need two essentials to get their startups off the...

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Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D printed bioreactor

Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D p...

In that past year, there’s been a lot hype around biomanufacturing — from growin...

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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source...

Netflix helped change the game for microservices when it developed and the outso...

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Rakuten Symphony acquires Kubernetes platform Robin.io

Rakuten Symphony acquires Kubernetes platform Robin.io

Rakuten Symphony, the recently launched telco-focused arm of Japan’s Rakuten Gro...

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What’s your BNPL startup really worth?

What’s your BNPL startup really worth?

Is your startup more like Affirm or more like its smaller competitors? And if yo...

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Regulatory scrutiny is good for the future of software

Regulatory scrutiny is good for the future of software

Increased regulatory scrutiny is a strong and healthy indicator of the potential...

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Ownit helps brands sell products, at the point of discovery, with one click

Ownit helps brands sell products, at the point of disco...

Its technology connects social, commerce and payment options at the point of dis...

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Equity Monday: Fintech consolidation could be picking up

Equity Monday: Fintech consolidation could be picking up

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, wher...

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Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste

Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that h...

Toronto-based Flashfood, a mobile marketplace that provides customers with acces...

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HearHere raises $3.2M to scale its immersive storytelling road-trip app

HearHere raises $3.2M to scale its immersive storytelli...

Santa Barbara-based HearHere, the company behind an audio entertainment and imme...