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Yieldstreet to acquire real estate investment platform Cadre

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Alternative investment platform Yieldstreet announced today that it has agreed to acquire Cadre, an online real-estate-focused investment platform aimed at institutional and high net worth investors. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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The average cost of shipping a standard large container reached $10,000 in 2021 , but from 2015 to 2020, the number largely trended below $2,000. Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch.

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PassFort, a RegTech SaaS for KYC and AML, nets $16.2M

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The 2015-founded startup ‘s existing investors OpenOcean, Episode 1 and Entrepreneur First also participated in the round. London-based PassFort , a SaaS provider that helps business meet compliance requirements such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) reporting, has closed a $16.2

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Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M

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Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. . The financing brings the total raised for the St.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets.

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Nerdy, a tutoring marketplace startup, is going public via SPAC

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Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. Its 2020 estimates list an anticipated net loss of $23 million, which is more than it lost in 2019 but less than its 2018 deficit. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. The deal will value Nerdy at $1.7

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Helion raises $2.2B to commercialize fusion energy

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Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. million round back in 2014 , when the company said it would be able to get net power generation of fusion up and running within three years. The funding includes commitments of an additional $1.7 Animation courtesy of Helion Energy.

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