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Zubale bags new capital to match gig workers with LatAm e-commerce fulfillment jobs

TechCrunch

The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish.

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AppHarvest is now APPH: Rise of the Rest’s First Publicly Traded Company

Revolution

rang the opening bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange, signifying the start of their new chapter in life as a public traded company after successfully completing a merger with Novus Capital Corporation. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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Virtual Incision Extends Series C Round with Additional $30M Funding

American Entrepreneurship

The round was led by current investors Bluestem Capital, Endeavour Vision, Baird Capital, cultivate(MD) Capital Funds, and PrairieGold Venture Partners, as well as new health-tech investors Arboretum Ventures and InVivium Capital.

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Betting on China’s driverless future, Toyota, Bosch, Daimler jump on board Momenta’s $500M round

TechCrunch

The startup has a dazzling list of investors, from Kai-Fu Lee’s Sinovation Ventures and the government of Suzhou, to Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler. Financial investors leading the round were the Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek and Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s Yunfeng Capital. Ethics in the age of autonomous vehicles.

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Nigerian startup Klasha gets an additional $2.1M for its cross-border commerce play

TechCrunch

The startup, which provides multiple products for the cross-border commerce space in Africa, raised this new financing from a group of international investors co-led by American Express (AMEX) Ventures, the strategic investment group of American Express. This investment is AMEX Ventures’ first in an African startup.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. billion by 2025. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “Sima.ai

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Axio lands $23M to help companies quantify cyber risk

TechCrunch

Axio , a platform for cybersecurity risk evaluation, today announced the closure of a $23 million Series B round led by Temasek’s ISTARI, with participation from investors NFP Ventures, IA Capital Group and former BP CEO Bob Dudley. Department of Energy.

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