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(Reuters) - E-commerce investor and operating company Rocket Internet AG said on Friday it had paid 496 million euros to acquire a 30 percent stake in Delivery Hero, a food takeaway rival of Rocket's own Foodpanda delivery service.
Indian firm FreeCharge, inventor of an online mobile phone and utilities bill payment service which is already backed by U.S. venture capital investor Sequoia Capital, said on Friday it has got a further $80 million in fresh funding from investors including Valiant Capital Management & Tybourne Capital Management.
(Reuters) - Online discount coupon provider Groupon Inc is in talks to sell a majority stake in its South Korean mobile e-commerce company, Ticket Monster Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported, according to Reuters News.
Chinese online food delivery service Ele.me said on Tuesday it has raised $350 million from investors including CITIC Private Equity, Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK), JD.com Inc (JD.O), Dianping and Sequoia Capital.
Sweden's Eltel, a supplier of technical services for infrastructure networks, said on Monday the final price in its initial public offering in Stockholm is expected to be between 55-70 crowns per share.
Investment firm Partech Ventures has raised 200 million euros ($225.26 million) from investors, including French retailer Carrefour, for a new fund that will invest in European technology and digital start-ups, Reuters reported.
Box Inc's shares have been priced at $14, an underwriter said, valuing the online data storage provider at about $1.67 billion in one of the most hotly anticipated technology IPOs in recent months, Reuters News reported.
Bitcoin payment processor Coinbase said on Tuesday it has raised $75 million from several major financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange, USAA Bank, and Spanish banking group BBVA.
U.S. venture capitalists invested $48.39 billion last year, the biggest total since 2000, according to new data from the National Venture Capital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Thomson Reuters.
U.S. investment firm Tiger Global has bought into China's Dianrong.com, the peer-to-peer online lender said on Wednesday, the latest in Tiger's investments into Asia's booming e-commerce sector.