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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.
Alibaba just reported a very impressive quarter of business, but there was a small nugget of notable funding news tucked away in its announcement.
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.
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.
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For an extended list of notable funds, go to www.forbes.com/fundsurvey.
In 2012, the philanthropic Leverhulme Trust, most notable for funding dreary desk-based research, offered a grant for academic investigation into conspiracies.
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.
It's notable that "stimulus funding" is less popular than the creation of green jobs and spending on infrastructure.
It's notable that technology funding in the countries with the most entrepreneurial states, such as Finland, Israel or the United States, generally make unrestricted grants, and where they seek a return, this is generally capped at the original level of the grant – the state can get its money back with interest, but not an equity share.
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