funding

Funding is the act of providing financial resources, usually in the form of money, or other values such as effort or time, to finance a need, program, and project, usually by an organization or company.

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$230M Venture Fund Draws Big Names, Focuses on Transforming Transportation
$230M Venture Fund Draws Big Names, Focuses on Transforming Transportation
October 19, 2021  |  Investments

Making transportation and logistics cleaner, faster, safer and lower-cost is the goal of a $230 million early-stage venture capital fund that launched on Monday (Oct....

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UK P2P Lender Zopa Nets $303M
UK P2P Lender Zopa Nets $303M
October 19, 2021  |  Investments

United Kingdom-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa has generated just shy of $304 million in its latest fundraising effort, according to a blog post on the...

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London FinTech Primer Raises $50M
London FinTech Primer Raises $50M
October 19, 2021  |  Investments

FinTech payments startup Primer raised $50 million from ICONIQ Capital, the wealth manager of technology billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. Other backers included...

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Tech Giants Aim to Capture Worldwide Ultra-Fast Grocery Delivery Demand
Tech Giants Aim to Capture Worldwide Ultra-Fast Grocery Delivery Demand
October 19, 2021  |  Delivery

Around the world, the ultra-fast delivery space is heating up. On Tuesday (Oct. 19), Berlin-based 10-minute grocery delivery startup Gorillas announced a nearly $1 billion Series...

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German Delivery Hero Buys Minority Stake In Gorillas Delivery Startup
German Delivery Hero Buys Minority Stake In Gorillas Delivery Startup
October 19, 2021  |  Delivery

Delivery Hero is backing on-demand grocery delivery platform Gorillas with a $235 million investment for an 8 percent stake in the company, leading the startup’s...

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Sprinter Health Aims to Solve Healthcare’s Last Mile With On-Demand Lab Tests
Sprinter Health Aims to Solve Healthcare’s Last Mile With On-Demand Lab Tests
October 18, 2021  |  Healthcare

Every service has a last mile – that final, physical meeting between consumer and provider. We tend to equate the “last-mile” concept with retail, with the...

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EMEA Daily: UK FinTech Plum Raises $13.9M in Series A Funding; Nigerian B2B Startup Alerzo Acquires FinTech Firm Shago Payments
EMEA Daily: UK FinTech Plum Raises $13.9M in Series A Funding; Nigerian B2B Startup Alerzo...
October 15, 2021  |  International

In today’s top EMEA news, U.K. FinTech Plum closes a $13.9 million Series A funding round, and The Digital Pound Foundation wants to see a...

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Nigerian Payments Startup Flutterwave Seeks New Funding at $3B Valuation
Nigerian Payments Startup Flutterwave Seeks New Funding at $3B Valuation
October 15, 2021  |  Investments

Nigerian cross-border payments startup Flutterwave is putting its feelers out for a new round of funding at a minimum valuation of $3 billion, about triple...

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ByteDance Valuation Tops $400B
ByteDance Valuation Tops $400B
October 15, 2021  |  Investments

TikTok owner ByteDance’s valuation has reached $400 billion based on anonymous sales by online traders, with some analysts seeing that number climb higher, according to...

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