Unusual Ventures Just Closed A $485M Fund By Promising Hands-On (full-time) Help
Unusual Ventures, a now 30-person outfit founded nearly five years ago by former Lightspeed Ventures investor John Vrionis and serial entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, has closed its third fund with $485…
Labor Pledges To Double Investment In Electric And Hydrogen Vehicles To $500 Million If It Wins The Election
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has pledged to double the government’s $250 million Future Fuels Fund to $500 million to boost electric vehicle uptake and infrastructure if it wins the federal election on May…
Plastics Waste Reduction Startup Zero Co Moves Into Body Products
Byron Bay plastics reduction startup Zero Co has turned its attention to what’s under the kitchen sink to what’s in the bathroom vanity, launching the world’s first refillable and single-use…
Neobank Fi Launches P2P Lending, Diversifies By Entering Mutual Funds Space
Fi Money, a neobank, diversified its offering by rolling out an investment platform in a bid to attract more retail investors. The firm's savings arm plans to offer mutual fund…
Agritech Startup Nurture.Farm Announces Exclusive Partnership With Dubai-Based Agfarm
Nurture.Farm, an agritech startup that offers end-to-end solutions for the agriculture ecosystem, on Thursday announced an exclusive tie-up between its online B2B platform nurture.retail and Dubai-based agrochemical company, Agfarm. According…
Weekly Funding Update – India (Apr 30 – May 6)
The month of May has started off on a good note for Indian startups in terms of venture capital inflow- whilst the external environment remains uncertain with central banks across…
AutoRabit, Which Develops Tooling For Salesforce CRM Devs, Lands $26M
AutoRabit, which provides CI/CD tools for Salesforce customer dev teams, today announced that it raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by Full In Partners, bringing the…
Tiger Global Backs Logistics Startup Shippit In $65 Million Series B Top Up
US VC powerhouse Tiger Global has once again backed logistics technology platform Shippit in a $65 million (US$48m) in an extension of its Series B round dubbed B2 Tiger also led…
The Final Pitch Launches ASEAN Edition, Seeks Investor-Judges
The ASEAN’s version of Shark Tank envisions helping high-growth companies scale up and foster cross-border investment and collaboration across the region
Future-Proof AI Careers
From voice assistants to drones and automated customer responses to personalized shopping experiences, Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us. Even in places, you may not realize it. Be it…
Pernod Ricard Appoints Richa Singh As CFO
Pernod Ricard India (PRI), a global leader in the wine and spirit industry, has appointed Richa Singh as CFO. In her new role, she will steer the finance function for…
How To Land Late-Stage Capital: Skedulo Founder Matt Fairhurst Reveals The Strategy Behind SoftBank’s $100 Million Series C In The Productivity Startup
In July last year, Brisbane-founded, US-based workplace productivity software startup Skedulo announced a A$100 million (US$75m) Series C from Japanese VC powerhouse SoftBank. In this special behind-the-scenes analysis, founder and…
Just Six Months After Raising €9.5M Seed Round, Fintech Startup Kevin. Raises €61.8M Series A Led By Accel
Vilnius, Lithuania-based kevin., a fintech startup that provides an advanced account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure to replace costly card transactions, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $65M (approximately €61.82M) in…
Upstox Crosses 10M Customers; Ahead Of Zerodha
Online trading platform Upstox said on Wednesday it crossed 10 million customers, doubling from 5 million around six months ago. With 10 million users, Upstox overtakes Zerodha, which, on its…
Year-Old ANU Startup Vai Photonics Navigates $40 Million Acquistion Deal
Vai Photonics, a Canberra startup spun out of Australian National University last year to help vehicles navigate independently of GPS, has been acquired by Sydney tech company Advanced Navigation in a…
