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September 15, 2014
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Square, a payments company based in San Francisco, has raised $100 million at a valuation of nearly $6 billion rumored to be primarily from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation along with participation from some unnamed existing investors. Square aims to simplify commerce through its merchant tools and mobile payment solutions such as the card reader. Founded in 2009, Square has raised nearly $450 million in venture funding to date and will use the latest cash to back acquisitions and new product development.
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Product Hunt, a tech product aggregation site based in San Francisco, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Product Hunt surfaces the best new products every day for tech enthusiasts to discover and share. Founded in late 2013, Product Hunt was a Spring 2014 Y Combinator graduate and saw participation from investors SV Angel, Slow Ventures, Naval Ravikant and Ashton Kutcher in an oversubscribed seed round closed last month.
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Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 29 rounds and $335 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in.
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Top Funding Rounds
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Square
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Square is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment ...
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Kinnek
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Kinnek is a B2B platform that allows small businesses to ...
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Scholar Rock
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Scholar Rock is discovering and developing a new class of ...
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DHgate
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DHgate.com is a full time international online wholesale ...
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Canburg
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Canburg, a UK-based luxury fitted furniture company
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Power2SME
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Power2SME is a group buying site that provides inks, steel, ...
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Cloudyn
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Cloudyn develops intelligent technologies that help ...
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WebTeb
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Health Portal In Arabic
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Celoxica
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Celoxica provides ultra-low latency market data access and ...
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Top Acquisitions
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Get acquired by TDC
for 14B NOK
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