What Is Investing?

What Is Investing? Investing is a way to increase the amount of money you have by putting it into financial products. These include bank accounts, money market accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, precious metals and property. Anything that potentially increases in value can be an investment.

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Tencent Leads $45M Funding Round For France P2P App Lydia
Tencent Leads $45M Funding Round For France P2P App Lydia
January 15, 2020  |  Investments

French payments startup Lydia closed a $45 million (40 million euro) series B round led by Tencent, with participation from existing investors CNP Assurances, XAnge...

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Google Pay Co-founders’ Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M
Google Pay Co-founders’ Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M
January 13, 2020  |  Digital Banking

Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2 million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and...

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Hillbilly Elegy’s J.D. Vance Raises $93M To Fund Science, Tech Startups
Hillbilly Elegy’s J.D. Vance Raises $93M To Fund Science, Tech Startups
January 09, 2020  |  Investments

Bestselling author J.D. Vance, who penned the popular memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” has started a VC fund called Narya Capital, according to a report Thursday (Jan....

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Walgreens Accelerates Digitalization In Q1
Walgreens Accelerates Digitalization In Q1
January 09, 2020  |  Earnings

As Walgreens made “substantial progress” on accelerating its digitalization, among other strategic priorities, the pharmacy chain had fiscal 2020 first-quarter revenues of $34.3 billion and...

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Israeli Tech Startups Boost Funding 30 Pct. YOY
Israeli Tech Startups Boost Funding 30 Pct. YOY
January 08, 2020  |  Investments

Israel’s technology sector had a banner year in 2019, raising $8.3 billion in 522 deals, a 30 percent growth over 2018, ZAG law firm announced...

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Olo Rumored To Go Public In 2020 With Possible $1B Valuation
Olo Rumored To Go Public In 2020 With Possible $1B Valuation
January 06, 2020  |  Investments

Food software startup Olo, named after the phrase “online ordering,” might have plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) in 2020, according to a...

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Chinese Tech Sector Faces Capital Crunch
Chinese Tech Sector Faces Capital Crunch
January 06, 2020  |  International

Numerous unicorns were among the hundreds of Chinese tech firms that toppled in 2019 as the economy soured and startups went through piles of cash,...

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LATAM’s Loft Snags $175M To Improve Digital Real Estate Sales
LATAM’s Loft Snags $175M To Improve Digital Real Estate Sales
January 03, 2020  |  Investments

Latin America-based Loft, a digital real estate startup that aims to make buying and selling real estate in the region easier, has raised $175 million...

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Employees Claim OYO Uses Corrupt Practices To Boost Growth
Employees Claim OYO Uses Corrupt Practices To Boost Growth
January 03, 2020  |  International

The New York Times is reporting that OYO, a quickly growing hotel startup that aims to be the largest hotel chain in the world by...

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