Felix Capital adds Julien Codorniou, ex-head of Meta’s Workplace; Susan Lin as newest partners

Felix Capital, the London VC firm that has built a portfolio emphasizing investments in startups in the ecosystem that supports the creative class, is bringing on two more partners,... Read more »

Falcon Edge closes first tranche of $10B fund, rebrands as Alpha Wave Global

Falcon Edge Capital, the New York-headquartered investment firm, has closed the first tranche of its new $10 billion fund and is rebranding as Alpha Wave Global, a source familiar... Read more »

Supplier, grocer connector Clubbi secures $4.5M to expand in Brazil

Clubbi, a Brazilian business-to-business resource for small food retailers, brought in $4.5 million in seed funding to expand across the country. The remote first company started in 2020 as... Read more »

Equinix is acquiring Nigeria’s MainOne for $320M as it expands into Africa

Equinix announced today that it is acquiring MainOne, a West African data centre and connectivity solutions provider with a presence in Nigeria, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, for $320... Read more »

European tech booms, but Southern Europe and founder diversity still lagging

Europe is “solidifying its place as a global tech power”, according to Atomico’s annual State of European Tech 2021 report, research which has become an annual fixture of the... Read more »

Samsung Electronics merges mobile and consumer electronics units, names new co-CEOs

Samsung Electronics announced today it has merged its mobile and consumer electronics units and unveiled its new leadership to replace its three major divisions leaders, effective starting today (Dec.7),... Read more »

As Southeast Asia start to boom, an accelerator backed by Silicon Valley execs jumps in

By today’s standards, $10 million isn’t a lot of capital to invest.  But Iterative, which describes itself as a YC-style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia, says the $10... Read more »

Hong Kong fintech unicorn WeLab raises $240M to buy Indonesian bank

A virtual bank is soon coming to Indonesia. WeLab, a Hong Kong-based fintech unicorn, announced Tuesday its acquisition of Bank Jasa Jakarta (BJJ), an Indonesian commercial bank. With the... Read more »

Intel to take Mobileye public next year

Intel plans to take Mobileye, the advanced driver assistance and automated driving subsidiary it acquired for $15 billion more than four years ago, public next year. Spinning Mobileye out... Read more »

Max Q: Rocket Lab unveils Neutron, plus more private space station news

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! There was a TON of space news this week so I won’t ramble too much, other than to remind you that many of the... Read more »
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