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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Partipost , Asia’s fastest-growing crowd influencer marketing & commerce platform , announced that it has secured an investment of over $7 million. The oversubscribed round is led by iGlobe Partners , with participation from Temasek’s Pavilion Capital , Taiwan Mobile, Cathay Venture, and Quest Ventures.
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After seeing a ton of venture capital investment flow into independent beverage startups recently, it was time to take a step back and see if this kind of company actually made sense as a venture investment. For one, the competition for space on grocery store shelves is fierce, eclipsed only by the fact people are finicky. The U.S. Beverage Manufacturing and Filling Locations Database contains nearly 2,500 alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverage manufacturers making everything from beer and soft dri
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Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Should early-stage founders ignore the never-ending debate on server infrastructure? Up to a point, yes: Investors we talked to are giving entrepreneurs their blessing not to give too much thought to cloud spend in their early days.
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based employment and payroll platform Skuad has announced raising $15 million in a Series A funding round led by a Southeast Asian venture capital investor. A US strategic investor specializing in staffing and two leading global payments platforms also participated in the funding round along with existing investors BEENEXT , Anthemis as well other prominent angel investors.
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