Blue Apron, the New York-based meal delivery service, just announced $135M in Series D funding, led by Fidelity, at a $2B valuation. This brings Blue Apron's total funding to $193M from a list of 15 investors.

Swiggy, a Bangalore-based food ordering app, announced $16.5M in new funding this morning from NVP, Accel, and SAIF Partners. According to CrunchBase, this is the 14th India-based food or grocery delivery service to raise venture funding in the past year. Sequoia has backed three of these: food ordering app TinyOwl, grocery delivery service PepperTap, and hyper-local delivery startup Grofers.

There's never been a better time to start an early-stage startup in China, according to Fritz Demopoulos, co-founder of travel giant Qunar and investor at Queen's Road Capital. On stage at TechCrunch Shanghai this morning, Demopoulos explained how an influx in angel investors has made China more startup-friendly than ever.


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PropertyGuru

$129M / Private Equity

PropertyGuru is a Singapore-based property listing site for the real estate market in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. The funding will go toward marketing and further expansion across Southeast Asia.

Singapore Central Region · E-Commerce · Real Estate

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Blue Apron

$135M / Series D

Blue Apron is a New York-based meal service that delivers perfectly portioned ingredients and recipes to your home. Founded in 2012, Blue Apron is currently delivery 3 million meals per month.

New York New York · Delivery · Cooking · E-Commerce

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Swiggy

$16M / Series B

Swiggy is a curated takeout delivery service based in Bangalore. Launched last year, Swiggy will use the funding to expand to additional Indian cities and scale its network.

Bangalore Karnataka · Food Processing

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