With capital aplenty, modern corporate investors marry financial and strategic goals

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. Yesterday, The Exchange dug into the data behind the CVC market’s very busy 2021. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near…

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Fintech unicorn CRED’s FY21 revenue jumps 170X but losses deepen due to higher ad spends

CRED on Friday said its revenue jumped nearly 170X (16,800 percent) to Rs 88 crore in the financial year ending March 31, 2021, mostly as it started monetising its platform…

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AssemblyAI snags $28M for all-in-one API to transcribe, summarize, and moderate audio – TechCrunch

The explosion in audio and video content and interfaces over the last few years has been plain to see, but ways of dealing with all that media behind the scenes…

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14 Indian Startups That Made Into Accel’s Atoms Programme’s First Cohort

The startups received $250K in non-dilutive capital, one-on-one mentorship from established entrepreneurs and business leaders Selected startups represent a diverse range of industries from SaaS to cryptocurrency to D2C to…

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Keyway secures funding to buy property from a small business owner and lease it back to them – TechCrunch

Keyway, a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of…

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Scaling to the US market: Meet the 11 Dutch startups, including 3 from Amsterdam, selected for ScaleNL’s inaugural accelerator

ScaleNL, a new initiative to help Dutch tech companies scale to the US, has announced the list of the first 11 companies participating in the inaugural 12-week coaching program and…

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