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TripActions is said to have filed confidentially to go public in the second quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation. Citing an unnamed source, Business Insider broke the…

TripActions reportedly files to go public at $12 billion valuation

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about the rough road ahead for Coinbase. This week, we’re talking a bit…

Can Andreessen Horowitz prevent the next crypto winter?

Vivid Money, a challenger bank out of Berlin with 500,000 customers, has made a name for itself with a financial one-stop shop “super app” that, in addition to basic checking…

Vivid Money, a financial super app, raises $114M at an $886M valuation to expand in Europe

Turnip, an Indian startup that is building a mobile-first gaming community platform, has raised $12.5 million in a new financing round to deepen its footprint in India and dozens of…

Turnip raises $12.5 million for its mobile-first gaming community platform

In the latest fintech megaround, Brex has confirmed that it has raised $300 million in a Series D-2 round that ups its valuation to $12.3 billion. TechCrunch in October was…

Fintech Brex confirms $12.3B valuation, snaps up Meta exec to serve as its head of product

Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, has been raking in money this year. It started the year with a $160 million Series E on a $2 billion valuation and ended it…

Cockroach Labs keeps rolling with $278M Series F on $5B valuation

Only a few months ago, Vercel, the company behind the popular Next.js framework for front-end developers, announced a $102 million Series C funding round that took its valuation to $1.1…

Vercel raises $150M Series D as it looks to build an end-to-end front-end development platform

The last 20 months of living in the midst of COVID-19, with all its unexpected developments, have been a challenge for many organizations when it comes to planning for the…

Pigment raises $73M to take on Excel and generic spreadsheet players in the world of business planning and forecasting

Founded by entrepreneur Parker Conrad in 2013, the HR company Zenefits was quickly anointed one of the fast-growing companies in Silicon Valley, with a valuation that soared to $4.5 billion…

Parker Conrad’s Rippling is now valued at $6.5 billion — more than Zenefits at its peak

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The…

China roundup: Tencent takes on sites trying to circumvent its age limits

Cora, a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. This is a large Series B by any standards,…

Brazilian fintech Cora raises $116M Series B as Tiger Global, Tencent sign on as investors alongside Greenoaks

Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E, Brazilian proptech QuintoAndar has raised an additional $120 million. New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round,…

São Paulo’s QuintoAndar real estate platform raises $120M, now valued at $5.1B

Vercel, the company behind the popular open-source Next.js React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital. Existing investors Accel,…

Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform

How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out. Bangalore-based FamPay said on Wednesday it…

FamPay, a fintech aimed at teens in India, raises $38 million

After burning through more than $2 billion in funding, SoftBank-backed construction startup Katerra has told employees that it will be shutting down operations, according to a report in The Information.…

SoftBank-backed construction giant Katerra said to be shutting down after raising billions

Last week, Scale AI announced a massive $325 million Series E. Led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks Capital and Tiger Global, the raise gives the San Francisco data labeling startup a $7…

Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will join us at TC Sessions: Mobility on June 9

Two-year-old CRED has become the youngest Indian startup to be valued at $2 billion or higher. Bangalore-based CRED said on Tuesday it has raised $215 million in a new funding…

India’s CRED valued at $2.2 billion in new $215 million fundraise

Cora, a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED…

Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M round for Brazilian fintech Cora

Airtable, the no-code relational database that has amassed a customer base that spans 250,000 different organizations, has today announced the close of $270 million in Series E funding. The valuation…

Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding

Remote working — hiring people further afield and letting people work outside of a central physical office — is looking like it will be here to stay, and today one…

Papaya Global raises $100M more at a $1B+ valuation for tools to hire, pay and manage distributed workforces

A startup by an Apple alum that has become home to millions of low-skilled workers in India said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $12.5 million, just five months…

Apple alum’s jobs app for India’s workers raises $12.5 million

Brex is the latest fintech to apply for a bank charter. The fast-growing company, which sells a credit card tailored for startups with Emigrant Bank currently acting as the issuer,…

Brex applies for bank charter, taps former Silicon Valley Bank exec as CEO of Brex Bank

This morning Ally.io, a software startup with a focus on the OKR (objectives and key results, in case you’ve somehow avoided being exposed) goal-setting technique, announced that it has closed…

Ally.io rasies $50M Series C as the OKR software market stays explosive

Most small businesses, which form the backbone of an economy, today don’t have the resources to handle their IT needs. Take restaurants, for example. They have likely outsourced this job…

Zomentum raises $13 million to scale its sales acceleration platform for IT channel partners

When you want to buy a refrigerator or a television, you can walk to the nearby electronics store or visit an e-commerce website like Amazon. But where do you go…

India’s Zetwerk raises $120 million to scale its B2B marketplace for manufacturing parts

Javed, a middle-aged man, worked as a driver before losing that job earlier this year as coronavirus spread across India, prompting New Delhi to enforce a nationwide lockdown and temporarily…

Apple alum’s jobs app for India’s workers secures $8 million

Big news today the world of IT startups targeting businesses. Rippling, the startup founded by Parker Conrad to take on the ambitious challenge of building a platform to manage all…

Rippling nabs $145M at a $1.35B valuation to build out its all-in-one platform for employee data

Zetwerk, an Indian business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, has closed a significantly large financing round as it scales its operations in the nation and also helps local businesses find customers…

Zetwerk, an 18-month-old Indian B2B marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $32M

Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users. Dozens of fintech…

India’s 9-month-old CRED raises $120M to help people improve their financial behavior

As grocery shopping moves online, one piece of the puzzle hasn’t been directly addressed: fresh fruits and vegetables. That also happens to be a category in which there is a…

Misfits Market raises $16.5 million for their ‘ugly’ produce subscription box