Startup Shrimp Farming Business in the US Seeking Funding
The Company is a new start-up operation that will be using patent pending technology to naturally and sustainably raise saltwater shrimp on a scale never achieved before with traditional shrimp farms -whether they're foreign or domestic. Worldwide market conditions...
Partnership and Investment with the Largest Golf-travel Operator in Bulgaria
The Company is the largest golf-travel operator in Bulgaria, and it dominates local incoming traffic of Golfers from Europe and all over the world who come to Bulgaria for a golf vacation. OPPORTUNITY -- The global golf-travel market around the world generates...
Mobile Cooking App Kitchen Stories Raises $1.8M
After garnering over 3 million downloads on iOS, mobile cooking app Kitchen Stories has closed a $1.8 million seed round, including backing from Point Nine Capital, and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Read More
YC-Backed True Link Raises $3.4M in Funding To Expand Debit Card, Financial Services To The Elderly
True Link, a startup that emerged from Y Combinator to protect the elderly from financial fraud, just raised $3.4 million from a group of investors including Cambia Health Solutions. While Cambia isn’t a traditional Sand Hill venture investor, they are a...
Intuit Buys ZeroPaper, Its First Acquisition In Brazil
Accounting software giant Intuit is looking to raise its game in international and emerging markets, and it’s doing so in part by way of acquisition: the U.S. company has bought ZeroPaper, a startup out of Brazil that offers cloud-based accounting services...
Clinical Study Software Platform goBalto Raises $12M In New Funding
goBalto, a software company that wants to make running clinical drug trials easier and faster, announced today that it has picked up an additional $12 million in funding from Mitsui Global Investment and Dolby Family Ventures. Read More
Russian e-commerce leader Ulmart plans IPO in 2016
Ulmart, Russia’s leading e-commerce company, confirmed today its plan to go public next year in a yet-to-be-determined Western stock exchange, the company’s chairman and co-owner Dmitry Kostygin told Russian business daily RBC. Ulmart is thus considering raising $1...
Rubikloud Raises $7 Million In Funding To Help Retailers Analyze Big Data
TechCrunch More and more retailers are learning the importance of big data and how it can be applied to improve sales, but few have the core expertise to understand how to gather, organize, and to analyze it. To help them do so, Toronto-based startup Rubikloud has...
Indian E-Commerce Marketplace ShopClues Lands $100M Round Led By Tiger Global
There’s more funding for e-commerce companies in India today, after ShopClues — a startup that led the adoption of the marketplace model in the country — closed a $100 million Series D round. Read More
Chinese Education App XueXiBao Raises $20M Series B From SoftBank And GSR
XueXiBao, a homework help app, is the latest educational tech startup in China to receive funding. SoftBank China Venture Capital, an arm of the Japanese telecom giant, and returning investor GSR Ventures led a $20 million Series B in the company. Read More
Xiaomi Buys 3% Of Chinese Games And Software Giant Kingsoft For $68M
Xiaomi became the world’s third largest smartphone company based on sales last year, and it also began investing in companies. Its early investments have largely been in hardware, but today it diversified into software after buying 2.98 percent of Kingsoft...
Innovative Chinese Drone Maker Gets $10M Boost To Go Mainstream
Forbes The year got off to a big start, with one of the more interesting startups around — a Chinese drone maker named EHANG — getting funding to the tune of $10 million from US and China venture investor GGV Capital and two prominent angel investors, Nick Yang and...