Sean O’Sullivan, founder of global venture company SOSV, has slowly but steadily built a sizeable operation over the years. SOSV began as a family office and invested O’Sullivan’s capital after co-founding two companies, including MapInfo, a company that went public in 1994 before Pitney Bowes took over three more funds years later in 2007 , … Read more
Tiger Global is in talks to lead a $ 30 million round at Indian edtech startup Classplus, sources familiar with the matter. The new round, which includes both primary investments and secondary transactions, values the five-year-old Indian startup at over $ 250 million, two sources told TechCrunch. The new round follows another ~ $ 30 … Read more
Investors are backing Koo, an Indian alternative to Twitter, with extensive checks at a time when tensions are building between the American social network and New Delhi. The Indian startup announced on Wednesday that it had raised $ 30 million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Mirae Asset, IIFL’s venture capital fund, … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Lining up to receive the Sinopharm vaccine in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday. Credit…Arif Ali/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The World Health Organization approved one Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine and could soon approve another. The Biden administration has backed waiving intellectual property protections for vaccines, which could make it easier for more … Read more
Bitso, a regulated crypto exchange in Latin America, announced today that it has raised $ 250 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at $ 2.2 billion. Tiger Global and Coatue jointly led the round, which also included the participation of Paradigm, BOND & Valor Capital Group and existing supporters QED, … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: People comforted a man infected with Covid-19 who was receiving oxygen while he waited outside a hospital for a bed in Delhi on Sunday.Credit…Atul Loke for The New York Times As a second wave of the pandemic rages in India, which set a global record new cases for the … Read more
Twitter recently had talks about acquiring Indian social media startup ShareChat as the company looked for ways to expand its presence in the world’s second largest internet marketplace and build a global rival to TikTok, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The American company, which is already investing in Bangalore-based ShareChat, offered to … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Yankee Stadium has become a vaccination site in the Bronx.Credit…Kirsten Luce for The New York Times The first of millions of New Yorkers with chronic health conditions lined up to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at sites around the city on Monday, a day after people inundated a state website … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: The seven-day average of daily new coronavirus tests has declined to 1.7 million from a high of 2.1 million last month.Credit…Pete Kiehart for The New York Times The number of coronavirus tests administered daily in the United States has been trending downward for more than two weeks. And though … Read more
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