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Rakuten Launches $84M Startup Fund To Build Ecosystem
Investments // January 28, 2016

Rakuten Ventures announced a major move to help boost investments for startups in Japan. On Wednesday (Jan. 27), the investment arm of Japanese Internet giant Rakuten launched a 10 billion yen (roughly $84 million) venture capital fund that is aimed at helping early and growth...

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Google’s AI Fund Leads $10.5M Series A Into Algorithmia

June 26, 2017
Google’s AI fund has made its first public investment, leading a $10.5 million Series A funding round for Algorithmia, a marketplace and enterprise solution that enables developers to tap into its catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models. According to news from TechCrunch, other participants in the round include new investor Work-Bench, as well as current investors […]

Rakuten Launches $84M Startup Fund To Build Ecosystem

January 28, 2016
Rakuten Ventures announced a major move to help boost investments for startups in Japan. On Wednesday (Jan. 27), the investment arm of Japanese Internet giant Rakuten launched a 10 billion...