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Asian investment specialist Fullerton raises $100m first close for Thai PE strategy

AsiaTechDaily

For Thai private equity, we will drive value creation for companies through well-honed strategies to grow their businesses, improve their balance sheets, as well as management quality, for downstream opportunities,” said Mark Yuen, Chief Business Development Officer, at Fullerton Fund Management.

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Balance raises $56M to tip the one-click checkout scales in favor of B2B merchants

TechCrunch

There are many companies bringing one-click checkout to the direct-to-consumer marketplace, but few are developing similar tools for the business-to-business marketplace. B2B payment volume is five times the size of business-to-consumer retail payments, yet much of those payments are not being done online.

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Survey Results – COVID-19 Ignited a Small Business Renaissance

Smart Hustle Magazine

This might seem surprising, given the abundance of available retail space — and plummeting rents — brought on by the pandemic, but e-commerce has truly changed the face of direct to consumer retail. A vast majority of the business (80%) are targeting consumers, not other businesses, for sales and growth. Will they last?

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. They also have a separate $300 million fund focused on bricks-n-mortar consumer retail. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. StubHub seems like the leader.

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Bangladesh agritech startup iFarmer raises $2.1m in IDLC-led funding

AsiaTechDaily

New York-based Millville Opportunities, and Startup Bangladesh Limited, the flagship venture capital fund of the Bangladesh Government’s ICT Ministry, also participated in the round. Register iFarmer , a Bangladesh-based full-stack agriculture platform for farmers , announced the completion of a $2.1

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

At GM, I actually got onto the buyout co-investment team that worked on AMF, the bowling company--so I know more about the retail economics of bowling than most people and I still have a bowling pin deal toy in my apartment. I'm also excited to have shared this opportunity with a fantastic syndicate of investors.

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This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’

TechCrunch

Other themes include So Glamorous, which includes companies selling apparel, luxury goods and other consumer retail products such as handbags, shoes and jewelry and The Open Road, which includes – you guessed it – companies involved in the development of self-driving cars, electric vehicles and their components and materials. .