Month: October 2009

Xeeku Twitter rising in Android market

By Mobile Innovation on October 27, 2009

Xeeku Twitter is a full featured free Twitter client which is most elegant and refreshing among all Twitter clients. It is developed by SV Local Android Developer Jan. It is just shortlisted […]

International Mobile Application Expo @ China – Your Gateway to Chinese Mobile Market

By Mobile Innovation on October 17, 2009 • ( 1 Comment )

With the official release of iPhone and oPhone in China, world largest mobile market is creating a wave of opportunities for worldwide mobile application developers. Xi’an Software Park, in collaboration with ExtendLogic […]

Funding and Exit

Travel giant Booking invests $500M in Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing July 17, 2018
Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company, has pulled in some strategic capital after Booking Holdings invested $500 million into its business. The deal will see Booking Holdings — which was formerly known as Priceline — work closely with Didi to offer its on-demand car services through its Booking.com apps via an integration. Likewise, Didi custome […]
Jon Russell
Mention Me, the referral marketing platform, raises $7M led by Eight Roads Ventures July 17, 2018
Mention Me, the London-headquartered referral marketing platform, has raised $7 million in further funding. The round is led by Eight Roads Ventures and is the first time the five and a half year old company has raised venture capital, having only ever done a small angel round in 2015. That’s noteworthy given the company’s two […]
Steve O'Hear
Online learning platform Unacademy gets $21M Series C from Sequoia India, SAIF and Nexus July 17, 2018
Bangalore-based Unacademy will add more educators to its online learning platform, which claims to be India’s largest, after closing a $21 million Series C. The funding comes from Sequoia India, SAIF Partners and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Blume Ventures (all four firms are returning from Unacademy’s Series B last year). Originally a You […]
Catherine Shu
Fastly raises another $40 million before an IPO July 16, 2018
Last round before the IPO. That’s how Fastly frames its new $40 million Series F round. It means that the company has raised $219 million over the past few years. The funding round was led by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners with participation from Sozo Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, and existing investors. Fastly operates a content delivery […]
Romain Dillet
Klang gets $8.95M for an MMO sim sitting atop Improbable’s dev platform July 16, 2018
Berlin-based games studio Klang, which is building a massive multiplayer online simulation called Seed utilizing Improbable’s virtual world builder platform, has just bagged $8.95M in Series A funding to support development of the forthcoming title. The funding is led by veteran European VC firm Northzone. It follows a seed raise for Seed, finalized in March […]
Natasha Lomas
WeWork’s biggest rival in China is on an acquisition spree July 16, 2018
WeWork may have combined forces with its fiercest rival in China, Naked Hub, in a recent merger, but its new enemy numero uno in the country is also building up a roster of friends through aggressive M&A. Ucommune may not be spending the kind of cash WeWork China did — it reportedly spent $400 million to […]
Jon Russell
Undo gets $14M to scale to meet the software accountability challenge July 16, 2018
Undo, a long time player in the debugging tools space, offering its program execution capture and replay technology to help others diagnose software failures, has closed a $14 million Series B round led by Cambridge Innovation Capital, the Cambridge, UK-based builder of tech and healthcare companies. The 2005 founded startup — initially bootstrapped (out of […]
Natasha Lomas
Hong Kong’s GoGoVan raises $250M from investors including Alibaba’s logistics subsidiary July 16, 2018
Logistics on-demand service GoGoVan became Hong Kong’s first billion-dollar startup via a merger last year, and now is doubling down on growth after raising $250 million in new capital. The new round was led by InnoVision Capital, with participation from the Russia-China Investment Fund, Hongrun Capital and Qianhai Fund of Funds. Two other notable investors […]
Jon Russell
Proportunity offers ‘help to buy’ loans based on predicting future house prices July 16, 2018
Proportunity, a London-based startup and Entrepreneur First alumni, wants to help first time buyers get on the property ladder earlier or purchase a home more to their liking. The company, which recently became an FCA authorised mortgage lender, claims to use machine learning to accurately forecast future house prices and the areas of London that […]
Steve O'Hear
Restaurant booking startup Eatigo chows down ~$10M more from TripAdvisor July 16, 2018
Eatigo, a Southeast Asia-based dining service that describes itself as an ‘anti-Groupon’ for restaurants, had a busy 2017 that saw it expand into a number of markets including India. Now it is primed to continue that growth further still after it gobbled down a fresh serving of capital from TripAdvisor, the travel giant that it already […]
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