British fintech unicorn PPRO raises an additional €76.35M in funding from JPMorgan Chase, Eldridge

Current CEO Simon Black | Image credit: PPROPPRO, the London-based fintech company, that provides local payment infrastructure for online commerce, has raised an additional $90M (approx €76.35M) in a funding…

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PPRO extends latest round to $270M, adding JPMorgan and Eldridge to grow its localized payments platform – TechCrunch

In January, localized payments provider PPRO became the latest fintech-as-a-service startup to hit a billion-dollar valuation when it closed $180 million in funding. As a mark of how payments and…

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While other startups develop alt-proteins for meat replacement, Nourish Ingredients focuses on fat – TechCrunch

Plant-based meat replacements have commanded a huge amount of investor and consumer attention in the decade or more since new entrants like Beyond Meat first burst onto the scene. These…

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech – TechCrunch

Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs, and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global…

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“Link-in-bio” company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features – TechCrunch

If you browse Instagram, you are probably familiar with the term “link in bio.” Links aren’t allowed in post captions, and users are only allowed one URL in their bios,…

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Baton raises $10.5M to create ‘drop zones,’ where truckers can hand off freight – TechCrunch

In the trucking industry, “dwell and detention” times are the enemies of efficiency, profits and drivers. More than two billion hours are lost each year due to dwell — the…

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YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam – TechCrunch

Homebase co-founders Phillip An and Junyuan Tan The home ownership rate in Vietnam is about 90%, but many millennials are struggling to join that number. Rising property prices in cities,…

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