Weekly top-tier investments May 24
1 Loom raised 130m 2 European stock investment app raised 900m 3 Human resource matching for infrastructure and energy industries raised 30m, and 7 others
SEQUOIA CAPITAL
①Telda / Egypt's digital bank B2C Fintech
$5 million Series Pre-seed
Highlights: In Egypt, the market, there are more than 60 million people under the age of 30, and smartphone penetration is high. On the other hand, two out of three people did not have a bank account. This is what Telda is trying to solve.
②Cortex / Giving engineering teams control over microservices B2B software
$2.5 million Series Seed
YC alum. Provides an optimization platform for microservices using Reliability as Code.
Highlights: Customer engineering team leaders are relying on tacit knowledge and spreadsheets to optimize microservices, leading to unexpected outages, security vulnerabilities, and lost time and money. Cortex is attempting to solve that problem.
③Vise / AI-based investment portfolio creation support B2B Fintech
$65 million Series C
Highlights: Until now, financial advisors have had to spend a great deal of time and money creating portfolios; Vise is partially automating this process so that they can focus on managing their clients and growing their business.
④Moglix / an e-commerce platform for the manufacturing industry in India B2B marketplace
$120 million Series E
注目のポイント:There have been several manufacturing marketplaces, but Moglix was the first to reach Unicorn and is becoming a winner in this market.
⑤Loom / Video messaging tool B2B software
$130 million Series C
Used by 120,000 companies and over 10 million people, including Netflix, Atlassian, Twitter, etc.
注目のポイント:Recorded message tools for consumers have existed in the past, but they were difficult to use for business purposes. Loom is trying to solve this problem.
⑥Hmlet / In Singapore, providing co-living for the younger generation B2C real estate
$6 million Series B
Highlights: As customers, the younger generation, are flexible and mobile regardless of location, the long and complicated contracts of traditional real estate were no longer a match. Hmlet is attempting to solve this problem.
⑦Trade Republic / German stock investment app B2C Fintech
$900 million Series C
https://traderepublic.com/de-de/
注目のポイント:Unlike Robinhood, the company has a banking license from the German regulator.
FOUNDERS FUND
①Trade Republic / German stock investment app B2C Fintech
See above in Sequoia.
ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ
①Loom / Video messaging tool B2B software
See above in Sequoia.
②Maven / Cohort-based online course platform B2C Education
$20 million Series A
Founded by founders of Udemy, altMBA, and Socratic. Provides community-based online learning.
Highlights: Due to the pandemic, the demand for online video courses such as Udemy has increased, but at the same time, they have not been able to provide the kind of community of cohort-based learning that offline schools do. Maven is attempting to solve this problem.
③Workrise / Talent matching in the infrastructure and energy industries B2B platform
$300 million Series E
Highlights: After laying off a quarter of its workforce due to the pandemic, the company was able to expand into the energy and infrastructure industries to revive itself.
Eleczo.com is an e-commerce platform supplying electrical products in India to meet all residential and industrial purposes.