Friday, November 22

Tag: Unu

Top Five Funding of the Week (29th Oct – 3rd Nov)
FUNDING

Top Five Funding of the Week (29th Oct – 3rd Nov)

As we all know that funding is a major part of the startups. Every now and then we hear one or the other startup raising funds for expansion or various other purposes. So, every week we come up with the top five funding activities of the week that took place in the startup world. This week was also quite active in terms of funding activities and the company that raised the maximum amount of funds was financial research platform Sentieo that raised an amount of $19 million. Let’s now have a look on the top five funding activities of the week:     1) Captain Zack A pet care grooming startup called Captain Zack has raised an amount of $1.5 million in Pre-Series A round. The particular funding round was led by industrialists Kushal Desai and Chaitanya Desai through ...
Germany-based E-Scooter Startup Raises $12 million from Ponooc
FUNDING

Germany-based E-Scooter Startup Raises $12 million from Ponooc

Germany-based startup Unu has secured an amount of $12 million in a financing round. This particular round was led by Ponooc. The round also saw participation from existing backers like Capnamic Ventures, Iris Capital, Michael Baum and NRW.BANK. With this, the company is planning to to release a second generation of its product, however, it hasn’t disclosed much yet. Unu is working on connected vehicles so that Unu could work with scooter-sharing services. The company is basically concerned with been building electric scooters and is working on new products and services. For the past five years, Unu has sold 10,000 scooters. The company is one of the most popular and successful European manufacturers of electric vehicles with Govecs, BMW and others. In comparison with electric car...