Sneha Shah / The Economic Times: Bengaluru-based StockGro, a social investment startup with a gamified app for learning about and participating in stock markets, raises a $32M Series A — Mumbai: Social investment startup StockGro has raised $32 million led by marquee global investors such as Bitkraft Ventures, General Catalyst …
Read More »Rocket Report: SpaceX raises more cash, buy your own New Glenn
Enlarge / The James Webb Space Telescope lifts off from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket on December 25. ESA – S. Corvaja Welcome to Edition 4.27 of the Rocket Report! And after two weeks away, the Rocket Report is back. I’d like to say I’m tanned, rested, and …
Read More »Vietnam-based Timo Bank raises $20M led by Square Peg, its first outside funding since its 2015 founding, as it aims to acquire a digital banking license (Deepti Sri/Tech in Asia)
Deepti Sri / Tech in Asia: Vietnam-based Timo Bank raises $20M led by Square Peg, its first outside funding since its 2015 founding, as it aims to acquire a digital banking license — Vietnam-based Timo Bank has raised US$20 million in a fresh financing round led by Square Peg, a …
Read More »Robust Intelligence, which helps businesses stress test their AI models, raises a $30M Series B led by Tiger Global (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Robust Intelligence, which helps businesses stress test their AI models, raises a $30M Series B led by Tiger Global — Robust Intelligence, an AI startup that helps businesses stress test their AI models and prevent them from failing, today announced that it has raised a $30 …
Read More »H2O.ai raises $100M at a $1.6B pre-money valuation for tools to make AI usable by any kind of enterprise – TechCrunch
H2O.ai — a startup that has developed an open-source framework as well as proprietary apps that make it easier for any kind of enterprise to build and operate artificial intelligence-based services — has seen a surge of interest as AI applications have become more ubiquitous, and enterprises beyond tech companies …
Read More »Lime raises $523M in convertible debt and term loan financing and says it plans to go public next year (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Lime raises $523M in convertible debt and term loan financing and says it plans to go public next year — Shared electric micromobility giant Lime has closed a $523 million raise in convertible debt and term loan financing, money that Lime CEO Wayne Ting says is …
Read More »Pfizer raises COVID-19 vaccine sales forecast to $36 bn for 2021, Health News, ET HealthWorld
Pfizer Inc on Tuesday raised the full-year sales forecast for its COVID-19 vaccine by 7.5% to $36 billion, as it signs deals with countries for booster doses and receives clearances for using its shots in children. The company had in July forecast sales of $33.5 billion from the vaccine it …
Read More »New York-based Extend, which helps financial institutions offer virtual cards, raises a $40M Series B led by March Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: New York-based Extend, which helps financial institutions offer virtual cards, raises a $40M Series B led by March Capital — We’ve written a lot about fintechs that aim to help other fintechs and traditional banks launch products and services. — But it feels like we …
Read More »Centre Raises Concern Over ‘Unsatisfactory’ COVID-19 Vaccination Among 60+ Population In North Eastern States
New Delhi: The Union government on Saturday directed eight northeastern states along with Uttarakhand, Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir to increase focus on second dose vaccination among the 60-plus population. According to the Union Health Ministry’s release, this came as the Centre deemed the vaccine coverage in some of these …
Read More »Paycor, which makes HR management software for SMBs, raises $426M in an IPO, selling shares for $23, above its $18-$21 range, giving it a valuation of $3.9B (Michael Hytha/Bloomberg)
Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: Paycor, which makes HR management software for SMBs, raises $426M in an IPO, selling shares for $23, above its $18-$21 range, giving it a valuation of $3.9B — Software maker Paycor HCM Inc., backed by the private equity firm Apax Partners, raised $426 million in an …
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