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Startups Weekly: What’s up with YC? Plus, mobility layoffs and Airbnb’s grand plans

sudshr47 March 9, 2019 Startups

In this week’s startups newsletter: Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down, Marie Kondo is raising VC and Munchery has finally filed for bankruptcy.

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Changes at YC, $1.5B more for ride hailing, and Airbnb buys HotelTonight

sudshr47 March 8, 2019 Startups

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

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VCs have growing appetite for “AgriFood”

sudshr47 March 7, 2019 Startups

Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the sector or just broader heavy investing in the VC space is much less clear. According to a recent report published by AgFunder – a VC and investing marketplace focused […]

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SoftBank launches the Innovation Fund, committing $2B to invest in Latin America

sudshr47 March 7, 2019 Startups

While SoftBank continues to make big bets on startups out of its $100-billion Vision Fund, it has also launched another investment vehicle to invest in tech opportunities specifically in Latin America. Today the group announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which is starting out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Central […]

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The Khashoggi murder isn’t stopping SoftBank’s Vision Fund

sudshr47 March 7, 2019

Money talks in the startup community, especially when SoftBank comes knocking with the megabucks of its Vision Fund. Despite the public outcry around the firm’s dependence on money from Saudi Arabia in the wake of that country’s assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, deal flow for Softbank’s Vision Fund appears to be back to […]

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Sea is raising up to $1.5B for its Shopee e-commerce business in Southeast Asia

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

Alibaba is about to get a jolt from its largest rival in Southeast Asia. Sea, the Nasdaq-listed business, is raising as much as $1.5 billion from a new share offering that’s sure to be funneled into its Shopee e-commerce business. Singapore-based Sea said in a filing that it plans to offer 60 million American Depositary […]

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Grab confirms $1.46B investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

Grab has become the newest addition to the SoftBank Vision Fund after it announced today that it has pulled in a $1.46 billion investment from the super fund. Grab said the new money will be used to further its super app strategy, which is aimed at making its service a daily app for Southeast Asian […]

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500 Startups Japan becomes Coral Capital with a new $45M fund

sudshr47 March 5, 2019

The 500 Startups Japan crew is going independent. The VC firm announced a $30 million fund in 2015, and now the follow up is a new $45 million fund called Coral Capital. Helmed by James Riney and Yohei Sawayama, just like 500 Startups Japan, Coral will essentially continue the work the U.S. firm made in Japan, […]

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Go-Jek pulls in $100M more for its massive Series F round

sudshr47 March 4, 2019

U.S. ride-hailing giants Lyft and Uber are going public in the U.S. imminently, but over in Southeast Asia, the two largest on-demand companies are still madly fueling up on investment capital. The latest update to that story today saw Go-Jek, the Indonesian ride-hailing firm aiming to go regional in Southeast Asia, announced that it has […]

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India’s Ola spins out a dedicated EV business — and it just raised $56M from investors

sudshr47 March 1, 2019

Ola, Uber’s key rival in India, is doubling down on electric vehicles after it span out a dedicated business, which has pulled in $56 million in early funding. The unit is named Ola Electric Mobility and it is described as being an independent business that’s backed by Ola. TechCrunch understands Ola provided founding capital, and […]

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It’s a new era for fertility tech

sudshr47 February 28, 2019 Startups

We explored venture capitalists’ latest bets on fertility and contraception tech, including Modern Fertility, Extend Fertility, Natural Cycles, Nurx, Clue and more.

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Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Robotics/AI at UC Berkeley on April 18

sudshr47 February 28, 2019

We’re bringing TC Sessions: Robotics + AI back to UC Berkeley on April 18, and we’re excited to announce our jam-packed agenda that highlights the best and brightest in robotics and – new for 2019 – artificial intelligence. For months we’ve been selecting the most innovative startups and top leaders from established tech companies working […]