Austin based start-up Jungle Scout raises USD 110 Million funds

Texas based start-up Jungle Scout has secured USD 110 million funds on 4th of march, 2021 in a private equity round led by Summit Partners. Investors: The acquisition of USD 110 million funds took place in the private equity funding round led by Summit Partners. What the funding is for: The fresh funding would be utilized to support third parties to...

Bogota based start-up Elenas raises USD 6 Million funds

Colombia based start-up Elenas has secured USD 6 million funds on 4th of march, 2021 in a series A round led by Leo Capital. Investors: The acquisition of USD 6 million funds took place in the series A funding round led by Leo Capital along with involvement from previous investors like FJ Labs, Alpha Ventures and Meesho. What the funding is...

Text message marketing platform for Shopify stores – Postscript raises funds

Text message marketing platform Postscript

US-based Postscript, a text message marketing platform for Shopify stores that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers, raised US$ 35M in Series B funding on 5 March 2021. Investors: The funding round was led by Greylock, with participation from YC Continuity Fund and OpenView among others. Sarah Guo and Mike Duboe, Partners at Greylock will join the Postscript...

American Fintech startup Flourish raises US$ 1.5M in Series A funding

American Fintech startup Flouris

Berkeley, US-based fintech startup Flourish, a digital engagement platform for financial institutions raised US$ 1.5M in a funding round on 5 March 2021. Investors: The funding round was led by Canary, a Brazilian venture capital firm. Other participants include Magma Capital, Xochi Ventures, First Check Ventures and GV Angels and strategic angels including Rodrigo Xavier (former Bank of America CEO...

SiCepat bags US$ 170M in Series B funding

SiCepat bags US$ 170M in Series B funding

Indonesia-based last-mile delivery startup SiCepat Ekspres announced in March 2021 that it has bagged US$ 170M in a Series B funding round from Temasek subsidiary Pavilion Capital, Falcon House Partners and MDI Ventures. Other funding round participants include DEG (the German Development Finance Institution), Indies Capital, Trihill Capital and Daiwa Securities. The Kim Hai, co-founder and CEO of SiCepat’s parent...

Green Li-ion raises US$ 3.45M in seed funding

Green Li-ion raises US$ 3.45M in seed funding

Singapore-based greentech startup Green Li-ion announced in March 2021 that it has raised US$ 3.45M in a seed funding round led by US-based cleantech company LiNiCo Corporation. Other participants in the round include TES (IT lifecycle services), HAX SOSV (hard tech VC), and Entrepreneur First (EF). The startup will use proceeds from the funding round to accelerate hardware development, including...

Top 10 EdTech Startups in Brazil

Education

The EdTech scenario of Brazil offers interesting perspectives with new innovations as the year moves along. New education start-ups are personalizing their products.  Here are the most exciting Top 10 EdTech start-up in Brazil: 1- Descomplica  Founders: Marco Fisbhen Founding Year: 2011 Headquarters: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Funding received: USD 114 Million Investors: Incus opportunities, SoftBank, Valor Capital Group, Digital Prosperity fund and Social Capital About the...

Why and How to Prioritize Employee Wellness in Remote Teams

Prioritize Employee Wellness

“Remote working is great!” or “Remote working is the worst!” -  which side are you on? With the pandemic, many things changed and the way we work was one of them. Work from home became common and now some companies have even shut their offices and have permanently moved to remote working. For many reasons one might think that...

San Francisco-based luxury air travel startup Aero raises US$ 20M

San Francisco-based luxury air travel startup Aero raises US$ 20M

San-Francisco, US-based Aero, an air travel company that matches air travellers with premium seats or shared charters, raised US$ 20M in Series A funding on 4 March 2021. Investors: The Series A round was led by Keyframe Capital. Keyframe’s chief investment officer John Rapaport will join the Aero board. Other participants included Cyrus Capital Partners and Expa. The startup had...

German company Hepster secures US $10 million in Series A funding

insurance

Hepster, a German company providing innovative insurance services, has announced early in March  2021 that it has raised USD 10 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by Element Ventures along with participation from Seventure Partners, MBMV and GPS Ventures. Investors: Element Ventures is a UK based investment firm that invests in, among other other things,...