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...

Hong Kong Fintech Startup Airwallex Valued At $4 Billion In Latest Funding Round forbes.com The funding round was led by Lone Pine Capital and included previous backers 1835i Ventures, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner’s DST Global, Salesforce Ventures...

These Startups Want To Give Us The Best Night’s Sleep And Investors Are Tucking In news.crunchbase.com Startups are injecting technology into our sleep routine, a small part of our day that has an outsized impact on the quality of our waking hours and overall hea...

Untitled Ventures joins the scramble for Russian & Eastern European startups with a $118M warchest – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Sorry Mr. Putin, but there’s a race on for Russian and Eastern European founders. And right now, those awful capitalists in the corrupt West are starting to o...

Flat6Labs closes $10M seed fund for Tunisian startups – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Regional seed and early-stage venture capital firm, Flat6Labs, has finished raising $10 million for its seed fund targeted at Tunisian startups, according to a ...

TikTok owner ByteDance buys a top virtual reality hardware startup – TechCrunch techcrunch.com TikTok parent company ByteDance seems to be looking to one-up Facebook anywhere it can. After taking over the mantle of most-downloaded social media app in the ...