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E-commerce aggregator Una Brands lands $30M just five months after its Series B

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Una Brands , a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing its $30 million Series B funding that was raised in September of last year. What does the future look like for e-commerce aggregators?

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The Shrinking Series E: More Senior Startups Raise Smaller Follow-On Rounds

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APRIL 17, 2024

One expects a Series D round, for instance, to be larger than a Series C. Another bump usually occurs should the company secure a Series E. We then compared the investment size to their previous Series D or Series E. That’s about a quarter the size of its last round, a $350 million Series D in 2021.

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Singapore-based logistics startup Ninja Van secures $578M Series E

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ninja Van , a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth. Ninja Van will use the proceeds to strengthen its operations including micro supply chain solutions to optimize e-commerce opportunities in Southeast Asia. said Mr.

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Bluecore lands $125M Series E on $1B valuation as e-commerce personalization grows

TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

That made the pandemic a pivotal moment for Bluecore , an e-commerce personalization platform, and today the company announced a $125 million Series E on a $1 billion valuation. As people move to shop online in larger numbers, being able to personalize that experience has become more crucial.

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Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M pre-Series A

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A study by McKinsey & Company on general e-commerce activities in Africa says consumer spending will reach over $2 trillion in the next three years. Much of this spending falls under the importation of products, primarily influenced by consumer demand and the positioning of major e-commerce platforms in Africa. It has raised a $6.2

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Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C for e-commerce customer support

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Gorgias , developing customer service tools for e-commerce companies, raised $30 million in new Series C capital in a round that boosted its valuation to $710 million. In late 2020, the company had raised $25 million in Series B funding on a $305 million valuation.

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E-commerce aggregator Una Brands raises $15M Series A five months after its launch

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Una Brands , the e-commerce aggregator focused on Asia-Pacific brands, announced today it has raised $15 million for its Series A. The startup has not disclosed the ratio of debt and equity (like many other e-commerce aggregators, Una uses debt funding to buy brands because it is non-dilutive).

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Convoy raises $260M Series E to expand digital freight network products

TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

The Seattle-based startup’s latest influx of capital is made up of two parts — $160 million in Series E equity led by Baillie Gifford and T. Rowe Price that brings Convoy’s valuation up to $3.8 billion, and a $100 million venture-debt investment from Hercules Capital.

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Last mile delivery e-bike supplier Zoomo tacks on $20M to Series B

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Zoomo, an Australian startup that builds utility e-bikes for delivery workers, has raised an additional $20 million in equity to close out its Series B round. In November, the company raised $60 million in equity and debt for its Series B , which it used to fund further software development and more vehicles to expand.

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Visby Medical tests positive for a Series E extension at $1B+ valuation

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Medical diagnostics company Visby Medical raised $100 million in a Series E round earlier this year. Today, the company told me it extended that round by an additional $35 million at the same valuation as the rest of the round.

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Plugo, an e-commerce support platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia, picks up $9M Series A

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Singapore-headquartered startup Plugo has secured $9 million in a Series A funding round. The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics.

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Kilo, a Vietnamese B2B e-commerce platform for MSMEs, bags $5M pre-Series A

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo , a Vietnam-based B2B e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), wants to digitize the local retail value chain via technology. “In The Ho Chi Minh City-based startup announced today it has secured a $5 million pre-Series A to spur its growth. million, Narayan noted.

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StockX raises $275M Series E, valuing the retailer at $2.8B

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

StockX today announced its Series E funding led by Tiger Global. Now, in 2020, the company offers the same pricing system but in more categories, including streetwear, luxury good, collectables and even hot electronics like the new PS5 and Xbox Series X. The $275 million funding round values the company at $2.8

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Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Today the company announced a $160 million Series E on a fat $2 billion valuation. million Series D. Series D as scalable database resonates. Cockroach Labs , makers of CockroachDB, have been on a fundraising roll for the last couple of years. The round comes just eight months after the startup raised an $86.6

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Dremio raises $160M Series E for its data lake platform

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data lake platform Dremio today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series E funding round led by Adams Street Partners. The company says this preemptive round now brings Dremio’s valuation to $2 billion, up from $1 billion when it raised its Series D round just over a year ago.

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Locus Robotics has raised a $150M Series E

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Massachusetts-based Locus Robotics today announced a $150 million Series E. “If you look at the trend of e-commerce, it’s been on a steady upward tick. The round, led by Tiger Global Management and Bond, brings the firm’s total to around $250 to date, and values the robotics company at $1 billion.

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Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding

TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Airtable , the no-code relational database that has amassed a customer base that spans 250,000 different organizations, has today announced the close of a $270 million in series E funding. billion post-money, more than doubling its valuation from September, when it raised $185 million in Series D funding.

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AIOps startup BigPanda raises Series E extension, bringing its total capital to $340M

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

BigPanda , a startup developing AI to audit changes in IT environments and recommend how to fix them, has raised $20 million in an extension of its Series E round. UBS Next and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital contributed to the tranche, bringing BigPanda’s total raised to $340 million. billion.

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Expel raises $140.3M Series E for its managed threat detection and response platform

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

million Series E funding round co-led by Alphabet’s independent growth fund CapitalG, which also led the company’s $50 million Series D round in 2020 , and Paladin Capital Group, which led Expel’s Series A round in 2016. Expel lands $50M Series D as security operations increase in importance.

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Philippine e-commerce enabler Great Deals raises $30M Series B led by logistics firm Fast Group

TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Founded in 2014, Great Deals is an e-commerce enabler that helps brands like Abbot, L’Oréal and Unilever build their online retail operations in the Philippines. Navegar, which led Great Deals’ Series A , also returned for this round. Philippines payment processing startup PayMongo lands $12 million Series A led by Stripe.

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Getaround raises a $140 million Series E amid rebound in short-distance travel

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The startup, which allows customers to instantly rent cars near them in over 100 cities, announced today that it has raised $140 million in a Series E deal, bringing its total known venture funding to $600 million. In March, bookings dropped 75%, according to CEO Sam Zaid. Getaround laid off 100 employees.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Alto Pharmacy’s $200M Series E deck

TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Don’t get me wrong, Alto Pharmacy raising a Series E is impressive, as is raising $200 million. And in 2020, when the company raised a $250 million Series D. We cover a lot of health startups here on TechCrunch, and you know what it’s really hard to get any sort of excitement about?

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Autonomous Vehicle Startup Applied Intuition Hits $6B Valuation After $250M Series E

Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

Autonomous vehicle software developer Applied Intuition locked up a $250 million Series E valuing the company at a $6 billion — a 67% uptick in value from its previous round. Applied Intuitive last raised a $175 million Series D round co-led by Elad Gil, Addition, and Coatue Management at a $3.6 billion valuation.

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Verbit lands $250M Series E at a $2B valuation to expand its AI-powered transcription platform

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today it has closed $250 million in a Series E round that values the company at $2 billion. Verbit raises $31M Series B to expand its transcription and captioning service.

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Wholesum raises $50M Series A to roll up third-party sellers on e-commerce platforms

TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

As the boom of the e-commerce aggregator trend continues in Asia, South Korea, the fifth-largest e-commerce market in the world, is rolling up. Wholesum , a Seoul-based e-commerce aggregator, is jumping on the trend of larger firms buying up third-party merchants that would usually sell on e-commerce platforms like Amazon and eBay.

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SecurityScorecard snags $180M Series E to measure a company’s security risk

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, the company announced a $180 million Series E. SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. The round includes new investors Silver Lake Waterman, T.

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E-bike subscription service Zoomo raises $60M Series B to disrupt last-mile delivery

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Zoomo, the Australian startup that builds e-bikes and offers micromobility subscriptions to gig workers and couriers, wants to be the next disruptive electric vehicle company. The startup has just announced a $60 million Series B fundraise, money it aims to use to transform the way companies look at last-mile delivery.

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OwnBackup reels in $240M Series E on $3.35B valuation, up from $1.4B in January

TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

OwnBackup , the late stage startup that helps companies in the Salesforce ecosystem back up their data, announced a $240 million Series E today at a $3.35 million Series D. billion valuation. The latter is up from $1.4 billion in January when the company announced a $167.5

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Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Menlo Security , a malware and phishing prevention startup, announced a $100 million Series E today on an $800 million valuation. Menlo Security secures $40 million Series C to keep malware at bay. The company has now raised approximately $250 million.

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Getaround tops up $25M debt financing to its $140M Series E

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A Getaround spokesperson said “Horizon presented an opportunity that provides us with additional capital to accelerate our plans in the same way as our recent Series E fundraise.”. Getaround’s raise signals that the company is looking for new ways to secure cash without further diluting executives or investors.

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E-bike subscription service Dance closes $17.7M Series A, led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Three months on since the former founders of SoundCloud launched their e-bike subscription service, Dance today is announcing the close of a $17.7 million (€15 million) Series A funding round led by one of the larger European VCs, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. E-bikes tend to be notoriously expensive to purchase and a hassle to repair.

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Dataiku Series E: Unleashing Everyday AI

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AUGUST 4, 2021

That’s why today, we’re proud to announce a $400 million Series E funding round that will allow Dataiku to unleash Everyday AI within exponentially more organizations around the world.

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Daily Crunch: One-click checkout company Bolt ushered into decacorn territory on $355M Series E

TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Daasity raises $15M to help companies leverage e-comm data : Daasity is a startup that helps customers aggregate their information from various e-commerce platforms (Amazon, Shopify, etc.), “analyze it and push it to marketing channels to optimize customer experiences based on insights from a historical performance,” TechCrunch writes.

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Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

a biotech company focused on developing “organ-on-a-chip” technology, closed an $82 million Series E round on Tuesday. The NIH has launched them into spac e to study the effects of spaceflight, and has been developing tissue chip testing and validation programs since 2010. Emulate Inc.,

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Employment Hero gets $140M AUD Series E led by Insight Partners, grows valuation to $800M AUD

TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Series E was led by Insight Partners , the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech companies accelerate their growth. Its previous funding announcement was a $45 million AUD Series D announced in March , led by online job platform SEEK, at the company’s previous valuation of about $250 million AUD.

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Jobandtalent raises $500M Series E to keep scaling its ‘workforce as a service’ marketplace

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Earlier this year ( March ), it announced a $120M Series D (as well as $100M in debt financing) which it said it would use to enter the US. Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money).

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Nigerian e-health pharmaceutical distribution startup DrugStoc secures $4.4 million Series A funding, embarks on expansion drive

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Chibuzo Opara and Adham Yehia, being all too familiar with the problems of poor pharmaceutical supply chains, are planning to widen the reach of DrugStoc, a e-health drug procurement platform that eliminates these challenges by linking drug companies with institutions such as hospitals and pharmacies, in Nigeria. million series A funding.

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Announcing CircleCI’s $100M Series E

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APRIL 7, 2020

Today, we announced that CircleCI has raised a $100 million Series E funding round, led by IVP with Sapphire Ventures also participating, bringing our total amount raised to $215 million. This new funding will help CircleCI continue our global growth while investing more in our product and our customers.

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Sneaker e-commerce platform Kicks Crew raises $6M Series A

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The company just raised a $6 million Series A round, led by Gobi Partners, Pacific Century Group and Complex China, to strengthen its foothold in the U.S. valuation in Series F raise. With that in mind, we built a platform answering to a diverse community of shoppers seeking products of different functions and price points.”.

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Varo Bank raises massive $510M Series E at a $2.5B valuation as it eyes the public markets

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it has raised a staggering $510 million in a Series E funding round at a $2.5 At the time of its $241 million Series D last June (that included participation from U2’s Bono), Varo counted nearly 2 million banking and savings accounts. billion valuation.

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L’attenzione dei CIO verso l’espandersi del SaaS

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MARCH 18, 2024

Dopo anni di strategie incentrate sull’adozione di soluzioni cloud point, i CIO si trovano sempre più spesso a dover gestire un conto in sospeso: la razionalizzazione, la gestione e l’integrazione di una serie sempre più ampia di offerte SaaS, molte delle quali non sono state introdotte da loro stessi nel patrimonio cloud dell’azienda.

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10 celebri disastri provocati dall’intelligenza artificiale

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MAY 1, 2024

Nel 2017, The Economist ha dichiarato [in inglese] che i dati, alla pari del petrolio, sono diventati la risorsa più preziosa del mondo e, da allora, questo stesso ritornello è stato ripetuto più volte. Le aziende di tutti i settori hanno investito e continuano a investire pesantemente in dati e analisi.

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SingleStore Announces $80 Million Series E Investment, Global Strategic Relationship with Analytics Leader SAS

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Insight Partners led the Series E round, with participation from new financial investor Dell Technologies Capital and equity participation […]. The post SingleStore Announces $80 Million Series E Investment, Global Strategic Relationship with Analytics Leader SAS appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Cloud-native cybersecurity startup Aqua Security raises $60M and remains a unicorn

TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Aqua Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that helps companies protect their cloud services, has raised $60 million in funding, extending its previously announced $135 million Series E round of funding to $195 million.

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E-commerce aggregator Una Brands lands $30M just five months after its Series B

The Shrinking Series E: More Senior Startups Raise Smaller Follow-On Rounds

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Singapore-based logistics startup Ninja Van secures $578M Series E

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Bluecore lands $125M Series E on $1B valuation as e-commerce personalization grows

Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M pre-Series A

Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C for e-commerce customer support

E-commerce aggregator Una Brands raises $15M Series A five months after its launch

Convoy raises $260M Series E to expand digital freight network products

Last mile delivery e-bike supplier Zoomo tacks on $20M to Series B

Visby Medical tests positive for a Series E extension at $1B+ valuation

Plugo, an e-commerce support platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia, picks up $9M Series A

Kilo, a Vietnamese B2B e-commerce platform for MSMEs, bags $5M pre-Series A

StockX raises $275M Series E, valuing the retailer at $2.8B

Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation

Dremio raises $160M Series E for its data lake platform

Locus Robotics has raised a $150M Series E

Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding

AIOps startup BigPanda raises Series E extension, bringing its total capital to $340M

Expel raises $140.3M Series E for its managed threat detection and response platform

Philippine e-commerce enabler Great Deals raises $30M Series B led by logistics firm Fast Group

Getaround raises a $140 million Series E amid rebound in short-distance travel

Pitch Deck Teardown: Alto Pharmacy’s $200M Series E deck

Autonomous Vehicle Startup Applied Intuition Hits $6B Valuation After $250M Series E

Verbit lands $250M Series E at a $2B valuation to expand its AI-powered transcription platform

Wholesum raises $50M Series A to roll up third-party sellers on e-commerce platforms

SecurityScorecard snags $180M Series E to measure a company’s security risk

E-bike subscription service Zoomo raises $60M Series B to disrupt last-mile delivery

OwnBackup reels in $240M Series E on $3.35B valuation, up from $1.4B in January

Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation

Getaround tops up $25M debt financing to its $140M Series E

E-bike subscription service Dance closes $17.7M Series A, led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

Dataiku Series E: Unleashing Everyday AI

Daily Crunch: One-click checkout company Bolt ushered into decacorn territory on $355M Series E

Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

Employment Hero gets $140M AUD Series E led by Insight Partners, grows valuation to $800M AUD

Jobandtalent raises $500M Series E to keep scaling its ‘workforce as a service’ marketplace

Nigerian e-health pharmaceutical distribution startup DrugStoc secures $4.4 million Series A funding, embarks on expansion drive

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Sneaker e-commerce platform Kicks Crew raises $6M Series A

Varo Bank raises massive $510M Series E at a $2.5B valuation as it eyes the public markets

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