Singapore-based Next Gen Foods will bring its plant-based chicken alternative to the United States after raising a $20 million seed extension. Investors included GGV Capital, agriculture and food tech-focused Bits x Bites, food and beverage company Yeo Hiap Seng, entrepreneur and “Blitzscaling” author Chris Yeh and English footballer Dele Alli. Returning investors include Temasek, which…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to news reporters following the announcement of a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s drive for big new infrastructure investment got a…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Jose Manuel Restrepo, then Colombia’s minister of commerce, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Bogota, Colombia January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo By Nelson Bocanegra and Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia will seek to raise at least $3.97 billion through a new tax reform measure to be proposed to Congress,…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk near the main entrance to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand located in central Wellington, New Zealand, July 3, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s central bank on Wednesday announced a halt to its pandemic-induced NZ$100 billion ($70 billion) bond purchase progamme, sending the…
Former President Donald Trump was desperate to beat then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election, telling aides, “I can’t lose to this f—— guy,” according to a new book excerpt published in The Washington Post.In “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” The Post’s Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker…
TOKYO, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Kyodo News Images Inc. (hereinafter “KI”), a group company of Kyodo News, the host news agency for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, launched a new and improved online sales platform, “Image Link Global (ILG),” for customers around the world in July. Image Link Global (ILG): https://imagelinkglobal.com/ (Image1: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M102619/202107087424/_prw_PI2fl_4w11220d.jpg) (Image2:…
LONDON and NEW YORK, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Quantexa, the data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI), today announced it has raised $153M in Series D funding from Warburg Pincus and a growing group of blue-chip investors. This latest fundraise follows an impressive year of 108% growth for Quantexa during 2020/21, boosted…
NEW YORK, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The propionic acid market is expected to grow by 86.21 thousand MT during 2021-2025, according to Technavio. The report offers a detailed analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the propionic acid market in optimistic, probable, and pessimistic forecast scenarios. Enterprises will go through the Response,…
As financial crime has become significantly more sophisticated, so too have the tools that are used to combat it. Now, Quantexa — one of the more interesting startups that has been building AI-based solutions to help detect and stop money laundering, fraud, and other illicit activity — has raised a growth round of $153 million,…
Staff management platform Vara’s team If you follow startup news from Indonesia, you know that the country’s estimated 60 million small businesses are a hot target for tech companies. BukuKas and BukuWarung, for example, both recently raised large rounds to fuel their race to digitize SMEs’ operations. Founded in November 2020, Vara is focused specifically…





