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Following the notable funding rounds for apps like Secret ($8.6 million) and Whisper ($21 million!), newcomer Yik Yak is today announcing a small amount of outside investment, too.
Look! Another notable funding round for a fintech startup in Southeast Asia, after Singapore-based Funding Societies raised a $7.5 million Series A round for its take on marketplace lending.
Alibaba just reported a very impressive quarter of business, but there was a small nugget of notable funding news tucked away in its announcement.
This week, Bukalapak landed another notable funding milestone after it raised a $50 million Series D round from the Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund, a joint vehicle operated by Korean mutual fund Mirae Asset and Naver, the firm whose businesses include popular messaging service Line.
Other notable hedge funds that look poised to make the top performing list this year include Israel Englander's Millennium Management, which gained 11percentthroughgh November, and Sahm Adrangi's Kerrisdale Capital, which was up 18percentt in the same period, said people briefed on those firms' performance numbers.
In 2012, the philanthropic Leverhulme Trust, most notable for funding dreary desk-based research, offered a grant for academic investigation into conspiracies.
That's largely due to lack of funding, Kolstad says, noting that NSF's DMUU program, the most notable source of funding for social scientists working on climate change, amounts to just $5 million annually.
It's notable that "stimulus funding" is less popular than the creation of green jobs and spending on infrastructure.
