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Swedish Startup Lendify Closes $115M Funding Deal

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Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending startup Lendify has secured $115 million in funding from Insight Investment, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (Oct. Last year Insight Investment supported the digital lender with a 1.5 In the past, the startup was supported by P2P lending and institutional capital.

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Poshmark Files For IPO After Posting Record Profits

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Secondhand eCommerce platform Poshmark filed for an initial public offering (IPO) after posting more than $30 million in profit across two consecutive quarters. “We We only recently became profitable and have experienced net losses. The Silicon Valley startup posted a net loss of $14.5 million last year.

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Ant Financial Posts Rare Quarterly Loss

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Ant Financial , the Chinese FinTech giant and an affiliate of Alibaba Group , posted an earnings pre-tax loss of 2.4 The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), citing Ant, reported that the company had a pre-tax profit of 5.3 Alibaba blamed the loss on increased investments to capture growth. It posted 9.18 It posted 9.18

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SoftBank CEO Says WeWork Investment Was ‘Foolish’

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It’s not often that a CEO publicly admits they made a blunder, but that’s just what SoftBank Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son did Monday (May 18) regarding the firm’s WeWork investment, which went south, Business Insider reported. “It Vox reported last fall that SoftBank had invested $18.5 billion at the end of March, down from $7.3

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OYO May Not See Profits In China, India Until 2022

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India-based OYO has filed a valuation report with India’s ministry of corporate affairs indicating that the company did not expect to turn a profit until 2022, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. The losses were six times higher in 2019 through March compared to 2018, but its revenue more than quadrupled for the same time period.

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WeWork Remains Bullish Amid $1.9B In Losses

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On-demand workspace startup WeWork has secured significant funding from investors and has aggressive plans for global expansion, but the company’s losses are ballooning, according to reports in The New York Times this week. According to the company’s latest financial disclosure, the firm’s losses have hit $1.9

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WeWork’s IPO Flop Triggers Tech Startup Scrutiny By Investors

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Following WeWork ’s IPO debacle, investors want tech startups to prove profitability before seeking funds and going public, CNBC reported on Friday (Nov. Potential investors wanted to know how those companies plan to turn a profit. WeWork abandoned its IPO plans after massive losses turned off investors. billion yen ($6.5