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🌍 Developments featured in this month's Global Tech Brief: #FUNDS | Horizon Capital reached a USD350m final close for its fourth fund focusing on fast-growing tech and export-oriented companies in Ukraine and Moldova. The fund had a USD250m target. #CROSSBORDER | DST Global led a USD25m Series A for Yuno, a Colombia-based provider of an integrated payment ecosystem, with participation from Tiger Global Management, and follow-on from Andreessen Horowitz, KASZEK and monashees. #ENTERPRISE | Colmeia, a Brazil-based digital service automation startup, raised a ~USD5m round from Crescera Capital. #FINTECH | 1Long, a Vietnam-based wealth management platform, raised a USD500k pre-seed round from Monk's Hill Ventures, Iterative, Orionis Capital and R2VP. View the full edition here: https://hubs.la/Q02qrD410 #VC #PE #globalmarkets #investments #finance #tech #privatecapital #startups #privateequity

VC funds tracker: Peak XV, IvyCap Ventures, others add $1.4b in new funds 👉 Read more: https://buff.ly/3OJAahY Exploring fund-raising trends for startups in Southeast Asia and India, updated to 2024. 🚀 Record $13 billion raised by VCs in 2023, reflecting robust investment activity despite economic challenges. 🌏 Southeast Asia VCs amassed over $7.1 billion, while India-focused funds secured $6.2 billion last year. 🤖 Sharp interest in fintech, climate tech, and AI, with a growing number of funds specializing in emerging technologies.

Major M&A deals in the African tech space have generally seen an increase, and this is likely to continue. Thanks TechCabal for highlighting this. You can find out more about legal points to consider in my article, linked below, if your business is on this journey. https://lnkd.in/dCu-Y8bx

📈 VC investors targeting Southeast Asia and India raised record amounts in 2022, amid a shift from China due to regulatory clampdowns. 🌏 Southeast Asia-focused investors raised nearly $30 billion across 149 funds, while India-focused funds raised $18.3 billion across 126 funds. 💻 More than double the recent VC funds raised are eyeing startups in Southeast Asia compared to India, with most funds headquartered in Singapore. - Caption written with AI. Want full insights? Subscribe to Tech in Asia to read the entire article.

Venture capital flows into #financial #technology companies plunged globally by 36% year over year to $6 billion in the third quarter of 2023, according to our analysis of S&P Global Market Intelligence data. #Funding deal volumes dropped 39% to 484 transactions. However, in what could be an encouraging sign for the industry, mature startups, which were hit the hardest in the previous quarters, made a comeback of sorts, reporting approximately 30% year-over-year increases in funding values and deal count. Read our article to learn more: https://ow.ly/VlnN50Q3G8q

Andalusia Labs Secures $48 million in Series A Funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. With participation from Mubadala Capital, and existing investors Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Coinbase, Proof Group, Nima Capital, Naval Ravikant, and founders, general partners, and executives from global organizations. The funding will be utilized by the Andalusia Labs to further expand globally, improve institutional #collaborations, and expedite product development. The team is growing quickly, with positions being filled in a variety of fields, including security engineering, distributed systems, #AI, #finance, and business development. Andalusia Labs is a collection of leading technology companies, including Karak, Subsea, and Watchtower. One of the fastest unicorns in history, launch to $1B+ in 10 months. Backed by Coinbase, Mubadala (Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund), Lightspeed, Bain Capital, Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Proof Group, Nima Capital, and Naval Ravikant, as well as founders, general partners, and executives from globally leading organizations like Founders Fund, #Google, and Coinbase, among many others. Lightspeed Raouf Ben-Har Ravi Mhatre Bejul Somaia Adrian Nicholas Radu Noah Jessop Ajay Agarwal Shaun Lee #funding #abudhabi #investment #startups

💸 Venture capitalists (VCs) targeting Southeast Asia and India raised a record level of over $13bn in 2023. 📈 Southeast Asia-focused VCs raised over $7.1bn across 39 funds, while India-focused funds raised $6.2bn across 26 funds. 🔍 Majority of the funds were sector-agnostic, followed by the fintech, healthtech, and consumer tech sectors. - Want full insights? Subscribe to Tech in Asia to read the entire article.

London investment firm Dawn Capital has raised $700m (£572m) as it looks to nurture the tech talent and innovation blossoming across the continent. The venture capital (VC) firm’s $620m flagship fund, Dawn V, aims to support software startups with initial investments ranging from $10-$40m at Series A and B stages. It is the largest ever early-stage business-to-business (B2B) software fund in Europe, according to data company Preqin. The remaining $80m will support sector winners from Dawn’s portfolio as they advance beyond Series C. London-based VC Notion Capital has found business software companies made up 30 per cent — or $1.1 trillion — of the value of Europe’s tech sector in 2022.

London investment firm Dawn Capital has raised $700m (£572m) as it looks to nurture the tech talent and innovation blossoming across the continent. The venture capital (VC) firm’s $620m flagship fund, Dawn V, aims to support software startups with initial investments ranging from $10-$40m at Series A and B stages. It is the largest ever early-stage business-to-business (B2B) software fund in Europe, according to data company Preqin. The remaining $80m will support sector winners from Dawn’s portfolio as they advance beyond Series C. London-based VC Notion Capital has found business software companies made up 30 per cent — or $1.1 trillion — of the value of Europe’s tech sector in 2022.

Venture investments in fintech by the end of 2023 The largest decline in investment volume was observed in Latin America, down by 68%, and Europe, down by 64%. Along with the decline in volumes, the number of deals worldwide, except in the United States, also decreased. Investors there shifted their focus to early-stage startups, and the share of such deals reached its highest point in the past 10 years. 🌍📉💼  #Fintech #Venture #Investments