CrunchBase Daily: Delivery Hero, HelloFresh, NewsHunt, Fre...
Subject: CrunchBase Daily: Delivery Hero, HelloFresh, NewsHunt, FreeCharge, SteelBrick, Sauce Labs, TrialReach, PicsArt, Xeneta - February 6, 2015 From: CrunchBase
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Rocket Internet made a remarkably bold move this morning -- the Berlin giant is pumping a combined $717 million into global food delivery companies Delivery Hero and HelloFresh. TechCrunch has the full story here.
Did you catch the two parking startups featured in the Daily this week? We dug into the data, and it turns out the parking problem has driven over $75 million in venture investment in the past year alone. It looks like these guys are on to something big.
My CrunchBase colleagues are plenty ambitious, so it should be no surprise that they are working on a global survey of startups. See how we are going to do it, then take the survey here.
Which Menlo Park VC saw the most exits in 2014? Take a guess.
Featured Funding Rounds
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Delivery Hero $568M / Series H Delivery Hero is a Berlin-based network of online food ordering sites with over 73,000 restaurant partners worldwide. Following the latest investment, Rocket Internet has a 30% stake in Delivery Hero, which it plans to place in its new Global Online Takeaway Group unit. Berlin · Delivery · Hospitality
Founders Investors Claude Ritter Rocket Internet Kolja Hebenstreit Markus Fuhrmann Nikita Fahrenholz Niklas Östberg
HelloFresh $149M / Series E HelloFresh is a meal planning and shopping platform that tsends recipes and the required ingredients for subscribers to prepare them. Founded in 2012, HelloFresh has raised $216 million to date and is now 52% owned by Rocket Internet. New York NY · Hospitality
Founders Investors Dominik Richter Rocket Internet
NewsHunt $40M / Series C NewsHunt is a mobile news aggregation service based in India that covers over 100 publications. Launched in 2009, NewsHunt is available in 12 languages and counts 35 million downloads from domestic users, with another 40 million from overseas. Bangalore · Social News · News
Founders Investors Viru Gupta Sequoia Capital
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Omidyar Network Matrix Partners India + 1 more investors
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Featured Acquisitions
EE acquired by BT for 12B GBP
Social Moov acquired by Marin Software for $21M
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FUNDING ROUNDS
FreeCharge ($80M / Series C)
SteelBrick ($18M / Series B)
Sauce Labs ($15M / Series D)
TrialReach ($14M / Series B)
PicsArt ($10M / Venture)
Xeneta ($5.3M / Series A)
Lineage Labs ($4.0M / Venture)
ORIG3N ($3.1M / Venture)
Netology ($2.1M / Venture)
Wizpra ($2.0M / Seed)
+64 More Funding Rounds
ACQUISITIONS
ReadWrite acquired by Wearable World
FT Technologies acquired by Palantir Technologies
+11 More Acquisitions
Since the last CrunchBase Daily
77 $1.1B 2,661 Funding 15 In Fundings Profiles Rounds Acquisitions Captured Updated Added Recorded
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