Glovo, the Spain-headquartered on-demand delivery app that has similarities to Postmates in the U.S., has raised $169 million (€150m) in Series D funding. Lakestar led the round alongside Drake, owner of global pizza franchise Papa John’s. Idinvest Partners and Korelya Capital also participated, bringing total raised to approximately $322 million. The company last raised funding […]
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Location de voitures entre particuliers: Drivy se vend à la start-up américaine Getaround
Drivy, la start-up française de location de voitures entre particuliers, passe sous pavillon américain. Mercredi 24 avril, Getaround, une plate-forme américaine d’autopartage, a annoncé le rachat de la pépite française pour 300 millions de dollars (267 millions d’euros). La société américaine, qui a levé en 2018 une somme équivalente auprès de Softbank, Toyota ou Shanghai Automotive, finance cette acquisition […]
Cathay-Backed Drivy Acquired by Getaround
April 24, 2019 Cathay Innovation today announces that Getaround, the US carsharing pioneer, has acquired for $300m its portfolio company Drivy, the largest and fastest-growing carsharing platform in Europe, in order to form the world leading carsharing marketplace, with more than 5 million users spanning over 300 cities in the U.S. and Europe. While Cathay […]
Car-Sharing Startup Getaround Drives Into Europe
A U.S. car-sharing powerhouse is expanding abroad. San Francisco-based Getaround Inc., backed by investors including SoftBank Group Corp., said it has acquired Paris-based Drivy SAS for $300 million, expanding the reach of a startup that has been pushing a vision of reducing car ownership in urban areas. […]
Venture capital funds are starting to make bigger bets on African startups
Funding has long been a challenge for African startups but the tide has started to turn in the last year as the sector heats up and both investors and entrepreneurs start to see some of their long term efforts come to fruition. In the recent past the biggest issue startups from Lagos to Nairobi or […]
Getaround acquires European car rental platform Drivy for $300M
Getaround, the peer-to-peer car-sharing startup that launched at TC Disrupt back in 2011, is making moves to become a global car rental service. […]
AfricInvest and Cathay Innovation Join Forces to Launch the Leading Pan-African Venture Fund
April 10, 2019 AfricInvest, a leading private equity firm in Africa with $1.5bn in assets under management, and Cathay Innovation, the global venture capital fund, created in affiliation with Cathay Capital Private Equity, are pleased to announce today their association for the fundraising and management of the “Cathay Africinvest Innovation” Fund, the first Pan-African Venture […]
Cathay Innovation and AfricInvest to raise $168M Africa VC fund
Tunisia-based private equity firm Africinvest has teamed up with Cathay Innovation — the venture sub of Paris-based private equity firm Cathay Capital — to launch a new Africa tech fund with a target raise of $168 million. Details are still forthcoming, but the Cathay Africinvest Innovation Fund will focus primarily on Series A to C-stage investments in African technology […]
Owkin Closes A New Venture Round Led By F-Prime Capital And Eight Roads Ventures
Owkin, a company which builds machine learning technologies and infrastructure to enable breakthrough medical research, today announced a funding round led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures. The round was joined by GV, Cathay Innovation and NJF Capital. […]
Pinduoduo sold RMB 65 billion in goods from anti-poverty program in 2018
Chinese social e-commerce platform Pinduoduo said on Tuesday that it earned sales revenue of more than RMB 65 billion (around $9.7 billion) in 2018 from a special program that sells farm produce from poverty-stricken regions. The report on the program is a timely response to announcements made during the central government’s annual Two Sessions meetings, promoting new […]