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Messaging app Wire raises $21 million

by Romain Dillet | Apr 14, 2021 | Business Enhancements, Startups

Wire, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service, has raised a $21 million Series B funding round led by UVC Partners. As the company said a couple of years ago, the company is focusing on the enterprise market more than ever. While Wire started as a consumer...

Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia

by Catherine Shu | Apr 14, 2021 | Business Enhancements, Startups

Standard Energy, a vanadium ion battery developer, announced today it has raised a $8.9 million Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia. The South Korea-based company says its batteries’ advantages over lithium ion include less risk of ignition and the ease of sourcing...

Coinbase sets direct listing reference price at $250/share, valuing the company at as much as $65B

by Alex Wilhelm | Apr 13, 2021 | Business Enhancements, Startups

Coinbase, the American cryptocurrency trading giant, has set a reference price for its direct listing at $250 per share. According to the company’s most recent SEC filing, it has a fully diluted share count of 261.3 million, giving the company a valuation of...

5 questions about Grab’s epic SPAC investor deck

by Alex Wilhelm | Apr 13, 2021 | Business Enhancements, Startups

As expected, Southeast Asian super-app Grab is going public via a SPAC, or blank check company. The combination, which TechCrunch discussed over the weekend, will value Grab on an equity basis at $39.6 billion and will provide around $4.5 billion in cash, $4.0 billion...

Expect an even hotter AI venture capital market in the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal

by Anna Heim | Apr 13, 2021 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital

Microsoft’s huge purchase of healthtech AI company Nuance led the technology news cycle this week. The $19.7 billion transaction is Microsoft’s second-largest to date, only beaten by its purchase of LinkedIn some years ago. For the AI space, the sale is a coup. Nuance...

Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders

by Catherine Shu | Apr 13, 2021 | Business Enhancements, Startups

After his last startup, Framed Data, was acquired by Square, Thomson Nguyen began exploring new ideas. While an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins, Nguyen interviewed hundreds of small business owners and realized that many pay hundreds of dollars in fees to...

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Messaging app Wire raises $21 million

Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia

Coinbase sets direct listing reference price at $250/share, valuing the company at as much as $65B

5 questions about Grab’s epic SPAC investor deck

Expect an even hotter AI venture capital market in the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal

Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders

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