Insider, a Singapore-based marketing tech firm, announced Monday a $121 million Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), at a $1.22 billion valuation. Insider said in a statement that the additional capital will be used to fuel rapid global expansion, enhance the company’s core technology and scale global sales and marketing investments.
Nasdaq-listed super-app Grab could face class action lawsuits, with several United States law firms calling for shareholders to contact them to investigate claims on their behalf. The mounting of such investigations, which is fairly commonplace for listed firms in the US, comes after Grab’s shares crashed last week, falling about 37 per cent on March 3 after it announced a fourth-quarter net loss of US$1.1 billion. Its results came amid a worse-than-expected drop in revenue, due to higher incentives being paid out to attract drivers and consumers.
In Trela’s case, it is developing a way for Brazilian neighbors to connect groups of people to suppliers, particularly for food purchases with the goal of eliminating the middleman so purchases can be made directly. The company is competing against grocery stores by connecting the ends of the supply chain to give neighbors themselves the buying power of a small restaurant or grocery store so that they can share in the cost of food — in some cases between 20%. and 60% in lower costs. Since the seed round in... Read More >
The past year has been tough for all kinds of tech investments. This LUMA report offers an overview of martech, adtech, and content tech financial activity in public markets, private financing, and mergers and acquisitions. To summarize a mixed picture: the bleeding has stopped but growth has not yet resumed.