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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their tasks in method consulting and financial investment banking in London previously this year in order to discovered a mobile-only education platform start-up, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with an objective “to make education more available to 100 million Pakistani trainees.” Having matured in Karachi, youth buddies Ahmed and Aziz …

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Elodie Games obtains $32.5M round to make social co-op gaming better

During the darkest hours of the pandemic, millions upon millions of people turned to online gaming as a way to pass time in lockdown and connect with friends they couldn’t see in person. But a social, cooperative, fun and cross-platform gaming experience is remarkably hard to find — and Elodie Games is here to change …

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Cent, the platform that Jack Dorsey used to sell his first tweet as an NFT, raises $3M

Cent was established in 2017 as an ad-free developer network that enables users to use each other crypto benefits for excellent posts and remarks — — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, however with Ethereum. In late 2020, Cent’s little, San Francisco-based group produced Valuables , an NFT market for tweets, and by March, the …

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H Venture Partners closes $10M debut fund targeting science-based brands

H Venture Partners united more than 75 customer and retail market specialists to buy its very first fund, raising $10 million focused on customer brand name start-ups backed by science. Founder and Managing Partner Elizabeth Edwards (envisioned above) formed the Cincinnati-based equity capital company in 2017 after 15 years as a VC at other companies, …

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Pipe, which aims to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue,’ raises more money at a $2B valuation

Fast-growing fintech Pipe has actually raised another round of financing at a $2 billion assessment, simply weeks after raising $50 million in development financing , according to sources acquainted with the offer. Although the round is still continuous, Pipe has actually apparently raised $150 million in a ““ enormously oversubscribed” ” round led by Baltimore, …

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Hong Kong startup ICW eyes supply chain diversification demand amid trade war

For American importers, finding suppliers these days can be challenging not only due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The U.S. government’s entity list designations, human rights-related sanctions, among other trade blacklists targeting Chinese firms have also rattled U.S. supply chains. One young company called International Compliance Workshop, or ICW, is determined to make sourcing easier for …

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InFeedo raises $3.2M led by Bling Capital, delivers $1.1M exit to early employees and investors

A Y Combinator-backed startup that is helping major companies efficiently listen to how happy — or unhappy — their employees are and resolve their issues on time to retain talent just raised a new financing round from several high-profile executives. InFeedo, a four-year-old people analytics SaaS startup with headquarters in Gurgaon, said on Thursday it …

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Austin-based Next Coast Ventures just closed its second fund with $130 million

It’s November. We’re eleven years into a bull run. And a protracted trade war with China — not to mention the impeachment proceedings — is causing some nervousness about what next year will hold. Little wonder that venture firms, which have been writing checks faster than ever in recent years, are also stocking up on …

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Signal AI taps $25M for public data-based market intelligence that spots trends and risks

Media monitoring — where news sources and other public information outlets are scanned regularly for mentions of specific organizations — is a well established service used by companies for market intelligence and to measure sentiment around their businesses. Today, London-based Signal AI, which has built a substantial operation in the area, has raised $25 million funding …

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