American billionaire Ronald Lauder through Pan African Investment Company (PIC) funds an undisclosed amount in convertible debt to Kenyan car manufacturing startup Mobius to produce Africa's cheapest car.
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Exclusive: SoftBank Capital closes in on financing round with Kony - sources
SoftBank Corp's venture capital arm is close to securing an investment in enterprise mobile company Kony Inc, and could announce a deal as soon as Tuesday, people close to the matter said.
Cash infusion for Gild aims to bring diversity to U.S. tech sector
Hiring startup Gild has raised cash to help it tackle one of the U.S. technology sector's highest-profile challenges: the lack of diversity among its workers.
Flipkart raises $210 million fresh funding from four investors
Flipkart, India's largest e-tailer, raised $210 million in a fresh round of funding from a group of four investors led by internet-focused investment group DST Global, it said in a statement on Monday.
Pinterest wins new funding, raising valuation to $5 billion
Pinterest has raised a new $200 million round of funding that gives it a valuation of $5 billion, the photo pin-up site said on Thursday. Pinterest, which allows users to create online bulletin boards based on various themes such as...
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Venice, California-based online vitamin seller SmartyPants Vitamins bagged $2.2 million in a new capital raising via San Francisco-based equity crowdfunding platform CircleUp to develop new products and expand its workforce.
Unified has acquired Awe.sm without disclosing the financial terms of the deal while the latter has received $5.3 million from Upfront Ventures, Foundry Group and other investors.
Halo Neuroscience has taken in $1.5 million funding led by Marc Andreessen and Jeff Clavier to be used to address issues on safety to the Food and Drug Administration to help obtain product approval.
Waggl, a San Francisco based startup launched in February from a spin-off from Fort Hill Company offering messaging and business polling, has raised $1.1 million seed funding round.
FIH, a handset manufacturing service provider of Foxconn, poured $2.2 million into Singaporean social media site mig33 to help the latter preload its apps into tens of millions of mobile phones every month.
Brisbane, California-based online publisher and ad firm Glam Media rebranded as Mode Media after raising $15 million in an unannounced funding round from undisclosed investors to launch a new video business in Los Angeles.
Los Altos Hills, California-based software as a service (SaaS) security startup Vorstack bagged $5.2 million in a new funding round led by Glenn McGonnigle and Tom Noonan to ramp up its real time data protection services.
Palo Alto, US-based cloud data service and enterprise software provider Apigee raised $60 million in new funding to expand its existing services beyond the basic application programming interface (API) technology.
Tealium, a San Diego based firm, has received $20 million funding led by Silver Lake Waterman to be used for company expansion which has totaled the investments in $47.5 million.
