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Australian investors are increasingly backing ‘impact’ startups, report finds Giant Leap Fund managing partner Will Richardson. Source: supplied. The social and environmental impact of a business is becoming more of a contributing factor in the decisions of investors, as they shift in line with consumer — and employee — demand. That’s according to the Giant Leap Ventures’ Impact Startup Benchmark Report 2021, which has analysed investments made into Australian startups over the past five years. Giant Leap remains Australia’s first and only VC firm dedicated solely to impact sta...

 investment at a $15 billion valuation on Tuesday, which its cofounder said will help the business expand its collaboration tools to hook business customers. The deal was actually finalized last fall, just a few months after the company raised $60 million at a $6 billion valuation in June 2020, and includes new investors Dragoneer and T. Rowe Price, and existing investors Skip Capital and Blackbird Ventures. The Australian company, founded in 2012, has now raised about $390 million total.  The company surpassed $500 million in annual revenue in 2020 and currently has over 55 million monthly...

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Unicorn club Growws SUBSCRIBE We'll soon meet in your inbox. / Daily Top 5 Good evening, Groww, the online investment platform, is the latest Indian startup to hit a $1-billion valuation. That makes it the fourth unicorn this month, and we’re just a week in. Also in this letter: ��Trifecta launches Rs 1,500-crore fund ��Apple to enforce new privacy rules for apps Now, Groww valued at $1 billion GIF Credit: Tenor India's startup unicorn club continues to grow, or rather, Groww. While the first three months of 2021 saw four entrants to the coveted club, an identical number of startup...

Canva’s founders quietly show path to Nasdaq Canva’s soaring valuation is a tribute to the strategic moves made long ago by its founders to be embedded in the Silicon Valley ecosystem. It is a passport to Nasdaq nirvana. Apr 8, 2021 – 12.00am Save Share Shareholders in online design and publishing platform Canva will be happy with the $US9 billion ($11.8 billion) uplift in its valuation between June last year and January this year when it completed its latest funding round. This extraordinary jump from $US6 billion to $US15 billion puts the company in the same valuation range a...