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Autonomous drone maker Skydio raises $170M led by Andreessen Horowitz
Skydio has raised $170 million in a Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund. That pushes it into unicorn territory, ...
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Bangladeshi start-ups taking wing for foreign backers
Less than 6% of the funding managed by Bangladeshi start-ups over the past decade came from local sources. As much as 94.3 per ...
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Clearbanc Fills ClearAngel Fund With $100M To Fuel Companies That May Never Get Venture Capital
Toronto growth capital firm Clearbanc unveiled ClearAngel and intends to lend $100 million from the investment vehicle to support founders who don’t have ...
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Singapore-based Raena gets $9M Series A for its pivot to skincare and beauty-focused social commerce
Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers. After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed ...
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Cameroonian fintech startup Diool raises $3.5m in funding to expand operations
Cameroonian fintech startup Diool raised US$3.5 million in funding to scale operations. Diool started life as a mobile recharge project back in 2015, ...
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First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America
Some members of the Black community took their belief that big banks are not meeting their needs and turned them into startup concepts. ...
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Angolan crowdfunding startup, Deya’s secures over $50,000 pre-seed
Angolan crowdfunding startup, Deya has secured its first round of pre-seed raise to the tune of over $50,000, this round was obtained from ...
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Aquarium scores $2.6M seed to refine machine learning model data
Aquarium, a startup from two former Cruise employees, wants to help companies refine their machine learning model data more easily and move the ...
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Japanese venture-capitalists get behind African startups
Japan’s Uncovered Fund has launched a $15m fund to back early-stage African startups that will close in June. Since 2018, this Tokyo-based outfit ...
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Infra.Market becomes India’s newest unicorn with $100 million fundraise
The newest unicorn in India is a startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure ...