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Το αποτυχημένο στοίχημα που μπορεί να εξελιχθεί στο μεγαλύτερο deal της χρονιάς
Όταν η SoftBank του Μασαγιόσι Σον σφράγισε το 2016 τη συμφωνία για την εξαγορά της εταιρείας ημιαγωγών ARM έναντι 32 δισ. δολαρίων ήταν τόσο ενθουσιασμένος, που είπε ότι αυτό ήταν…
Το αποτυχημένο στοίχημα που μπορεί να εξελιχθεί στο μεγαλύτερο deal της χρονιάς – Η ΝΑΥΤΕΜΠΟΡΙΚΗ
Softbank backs headless commerce unicorn fabric
Faisal Masud has said that the term “headless commerce” is really not an accurate representation of what his company, fabric, provides for commerce.
“The traditional monolithic business platforms (Oracle, SAP, etc.) are where a big box [retailer] holds many smaller boxes inside of it. So if one box broke, you broke the [entire thing],” he explained to Modern Shipper last year.
Instead, Masud likes to call his company’s approach “composable commerce” – the business logic remains separate,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/softbank-backs-headless-commerce-unicorn-fabric
Commentary: In defense of the unicorns
Flexport’s $935 million series E this week raised eyebrows for a number of reasons: The rich $8 billion post-money valuation, or $7.065 million pre-money, meant that the digital freight forwarder was ultimately priced at 2.14 times its reported $3.3 billion 2021 revenue.
The announcement provoked an incredulous reaction from transportation industry watchers, including legacy media and competing 3PLs. Just like after other big capital raises by FreightTech startups, we heard the usual...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-in-defense-of-the-unicorns
Arm’s reach for a potential New York listing following Nvidia deal collapse is a bitter blow for SoftBank and London
Arm’s reach for a potential New York listing following Nvidia deal collapse is a bitter blow for SoftBank and London
Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown
‘’The collapse of the blockbuster Arm deal is a bitter blow of disappointment for Soft Bank, which now faces more of an arduous journey to generate funds. If it had sold Arm as rumoured for as much as $80 billion had the cash and stocks deal been delivered at the heady heights of...
Loadsmart becomes FreightTech’s next unicorn at $1.3B valuation with SoftBank investment
On-demand freight marketplace Loadsmart announced Tuesday it has closed a $200 million series D round led by SoftBank Group’s Latin America Fund with participation from rail transportation company CSX Corp., asset manager Janus Henderson Group and its existing investor, BlackRock Inc.
The Chicago-based company’s series D round has landed the freight marketplace a $1.3 billion valuation, almost three times its valuation after closing its series C in November, showcasing the desirability of...
Supply chain tech VC investment exceeds $7B for 3rd straight quarter
New venture capitalists have entered the supply chain technology space. Larger checks and higher valuations from Tiger Global and Softbank are changing the landscape, but mature startups and incumbents are also scaling their M&A capabilities.
Venture capital investment in supply chain technology startups remained robust in the third quarter of 2021, coming in at $7.8 billion for the United States and Europe. That number represents a cooling from the segment’s most recent peak in the first...
Cambridge, SoftBank back Parcel Perform in $20M Series A
While Dana von der Heide and Arne Jeroschewski were working to improve e-commerce logistics within Asia Pacific at DHL, the pair realized advancing the experience for retailers could not be done with just one carrier.
This inspired them to step away from DHL and co-found Parcel Perform, a Singapore-based e-commerce logistics software-as-a-service company that leverages over 700 carriers worldwide to improve the consumer experience of global parcel deliveries.
“We quickly realized that if you...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cambridge-softbank-back-parcel-perform-in-20m-series-a
ShipBob reaches $1B valuation with new funding round
The money keeps flowing into the last-mile logistics space and the latest company to reap the benefits is cloud-based platform ShipBob, which announced a $200 million Series E round Tuesday morning.
The new funding, which brings total funding in the company to $330.5 million according to Crunchbase, doubles ShipBob’s valuation from its Series D funding round in September 2020 to more than $1 billion today, it said in a release.
The Series E financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures, which led...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shipbob-reaches-1b-valuation-with-new-funding-round
Is Didi’s IPO a stock loser from the start?
Didi Global operates in 16 countries, but 90% of its revenues come from China. In 2020, the ride-hailing giant saw its business plummet due to lockdowns related to COVID-19 and lost $1.6 billion on $21.6 billion in revenue, a 10% decline from 2019. The loss might have been bigger, save for the company’s decision to expand its operations into intracity freight delivery, food delivery and community group-buying services.
Even as a Chinese government investigation into the company is ongoing, Didi...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-didis-ipo-a-stock-loser-from-the-start