Una Brands launches with $40M to roll up brands on multiple Asia-Pacific e-commerce platforms – TechCrunch

Una Brands’ co-founders (from left to right): Tobias Heusch, Kiran Tanna and Kushal Patel One of the biggest funding trends of the past year is companies that consolidate small e-commerce…

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Chime has agreed to stop using the word ‘bank’ after a California regulator pushed back – TechCrunch

Chime can apparently call itself the “fastest-growing fintech in the U.S.” but it has agreed to stop referring to itself as a “bank,” per a new report out of American…

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Supercell likes Metacore’s games so much it just gave it another $180M credit line – TechCrunch

Metacore, a Finnish mobile games company, seems to have an amazing ‘relationship’ with Supercell, another (quite successful) Finnish mobile games company. Back in September 2020, Metacore raised $17.7 million in…

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StudySmarter books $15M for a global ‘personalized learning’ push – TechCrunch

More money for the edtech boom: Munich-based StudySmarter, which makes digital tools to help learners of all ages swot up — styling itself as a “lifelong learning platform” — has…

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Sprout.ai raises $11M Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance claims – TechCrunch

It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. It has now gone on to…

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