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Forum Brands raises $27M Series A as crowded Amazon roll-up space continues to heat up

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The number of startups acquiring e-commerce businesses, especially those operating on Amazon, to grow and scale is increasing as more people than ever are shopping online. Its apps leverage analytics to push recommendations to drive growth and financial performance for brands. Forum Brands founding team.

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Morocco’s food tech Terraa raises $1.5M led by FoodLabs

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Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 million pre-seed funding in a round led by FoodLabs, a European early-stage VC investor and venture studio for food, sustainability and health. Retailers using Terraa will benefit from consistent prices and supplies of high-quality goods.

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Sendcloud nabs $177M led by SoftBank to double down on SaaS — shipping as a service

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E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of COVID-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to shop for essentials and not-so-essentials to keep their social distance, and using delivery services to receive their goods rather than picking things up in person.

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Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion

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Someone’s having a good day : Jasper, which calls itself an “AI content” developer, raised its first round of funding ever — and a big one at that, at $125 million, to give it a $1.5 Turning renters into owners : Christine provides an update on Landis, which raised $40 million in Series B funding. PDT, subscribe here.

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Can direct listings really fix the IPO pricing problem?

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software company Amplitude is expected to post a direct-listing reference price this evening and begin trading tomorrow morning, per publicly available IPO calendars. However, its DNA in e-commerce and venture-backed history keep it firmly in the TechCrunch wheelhouse, regardless. Raise, then direct list.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

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It is, frankly, a bad time to be raising and, by extension, a bad time to be running an early-stage startup. Airlift, once one of Pakistan’s most richly valued and funded startups, shut down in July due to lack of capital and an unsuccessful attempt to close a funding round. It’s been a year. Now it’s the economy, stupid.

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Led by ex-Amazonians, Acquco raises $160M to buy and scale e-commerce businesses

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The New York City-based startup has raised $160 million in debt and equity in a Series A round that it says will fund its “aggressive growth plans.” Acquco would not disclose the valuation at which the money was raised, nor the exact breakdown of debt and equity, other than to say “a significant portion was equity.”

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