News aggregator SmartNews raises $230 million, valuing its business at $2 billion – TechCrunch techcrunch.com SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Appl...

Singapore-based logistics startup Ninja Van secures $578M Series E – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Ninja Van, a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth....

Sales Startup Aircover Secures $3 mln In Seed Funding - Grit Daily News gritdaily.com Aircover, a sales startup based in San Mateo, has raised $3 million in seed funding to expand its real-time sales intelligence platform....

French tech startups and scaleups to watch in 2021 | Sifted sifted.eu €5.6bn in VC funding has been raised by French startups so far in 2021, up nearly threefold since 2015, and France has become one of the hottest tech hubs....

Here are all the companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day, Part 1 – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Today Y Combinator kicked off the Demo Day cycle for its Summer 2021 cohort. The collection of early-stage startups on day one-of-two alone numbered in the hund...