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Online grocery company Misfits Market to acquire Imperfect Foods

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Misfits Market is acquiring Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal, Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told TechCrunch. Both online grocery platforms, Misfits Market raised nearly $530 million since being founded in 2018, most recently a $200 million Series C round in 2021 that put its valuation at over $1 billion.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. billion fish deficit.

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Metigy gets $20 million AUD to making online marketing easier for SMEs

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Metigy , a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their online ad campaigns, has raised a Series B of $20 million AUD (about $14.6 Founded in 2015, Metigy is currently used by about 26,000 businesses and has channel partnerships with Google and Optus. million USD). million) in total.

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Informatica’s IPO will test public markets’ appetite for slower-growing tech offerings

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The data-focused company used its passage through the private markets to execute a move to the cloud, work that came to a head in early 2021, when Informatica announced its dive into the lakehouse market , where Databricks plays today. And in that final period — the quarter ended March 31, 2015 — Informatica generated $32.2

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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

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Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. Then as part of its community, companies share knowledge of marketing buys and data insights typically reserved for larger advertisers. Trust dashboard. E-commerce sales in the U.S.

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Online grocery startup Kurly scraps IPO amid market uncertainty

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Kurly , a South Korean startup that provides next-day grocery delivery service, just announced that it has called off its plan to go public amid worsening economic situations that have put startups’ market debuts on hold. Kurly has raised a total of about $761 million since its 2015 inception.

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South Korean online secondhand marketplace Danggeun Market raises $162M at a $2.7B valuation

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Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. By the way, Danggeun means carrot in Korean.). Canada and Japan.