On Tuesday, Southeast Asian online automotive marketplace Carro said, it has raised $360 million in its latest funding round that was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, becoming the region’s latest unicorn. “The valuation for the company is well over a billion dollars,” said Carro, Aaron Tan, the CEO and founder of Singapore-headquartered Carro. Carro…
In a report, Bloomberg News said, China’s ByteDance is exploring the sale of TikTok’s Indian operations to rival Glance, a unicorn. Negotiations, initiated by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp, early, private, and complex, said the report citing sources people familiar with the matter at hand. InMobi’s short-video app Roposo has gained more market share in India after…
In a significant development, SoftBank-backed used-car platform Kavak has become Mexico’s first ever tech “unicorn”. The startup was valued at $1.15 billion in its latest funding round last month, said its CEO Carlos Garcia. Since its founding in 2016, Mexico City-based Kavak has raised more than $400 million in total funding with SoftBank, Greenoaks Capital…
Uber is on the lookout for expanding its areas of business even as its tries to strengthen its core business competency. According to two sources familiar with the matter at hand, Uber Technologies Inc is likely to offer more than $3 billion for acquiring its Dubai-based rival Careem Networks FZ. As per a third source,…
While Mercari has gained traction in Japan and Britain, in the U.S. although it does not any direct competitor, it is to be seen how it will mitigate challenges from tech giants, including eBay Inc and Amazon.com who dominate the e-commerce market. Riding on the success of a recent funding round which boosted its market…
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