Yildiz Ventures Newsletter | Jul’23
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🛒 Online grocery / Food Delivery:
🤝 Walmart pays $1.4 billion to buy Tiger Global’s remaining Flipkart stake - 🔗 / Walmart, Tiger Global'ın Flipkart'taki hisseleri için 1.4 milyar dolar ödedi - 🔗
❌ Getir has unveiled plans to withdraw from Spain, Italy and Portugal in order to focus on existing operations in other markets. - 🔗 / 🔗 / Cash-strapped instant delivery giant Getir, trying to close funding, pulls out of Spain, Italy and Portugal – 🔗 / Getir, üç ülkedeki; İspanya, İtalya ve Portekiz’deki faaliyetlerini sonlandırıyor - 🔗
❗Getir, Fransa’daki operasyonlarını resmen sonlandırdı - 🔗
🚴 Getir to sell off bikes, cabinets and delivery boxes as it closes dark stores in the UK - 🔗
📣 Grocery delivery app Getir races to finalise funding amid sector shakedown – 🔗 / Getir’den özel demeç: İddialar doğru değil ve yeni yatırım turunu tamamlamak üzereyiz - 🔗
✨ Ocado boss: Grocery sector to have “inevitable shift” towards online - 🔗
💸 'The situation is that there is no cash' — Getir office staff urged to clear closing warehouses to save cash - 🔗
🛒 Foodpanda to expand in-store grocery pickups to Bangladesh, Pakistan - 🔗
🛒 Ocado and AutoStore settle three-year row over ecommerce tech - 🔗
🚀 Turkish Startups / VC & CVC News :
💰 Yerli bulut mutfak girişimi Zest Cloud Kitchens, 8 milyon dolar değerleme üzerinden yatırım aldı - 🔗
💰 Yerli Web3 girişimi Finceptor, 3.5 milyon dolar değerleme üzerinden yatırım aldı - 🔗
🚀 Girişim hızlandırma programı Türk Hava Yolları Terminal’in ilk döneminden mezun olan 10 girişim - 🔗
💰 Eşya kiralama platformu Kiralarsın, Arya GSYF’den 4 milyon TL yatırım aldı - 🔗
💸 Seri A öncesi köprü yatırım turunu tamamlayan Ekmob, globaldeki büyümesini hızlandıracak - 🔗
📣 Yerli girişim Poddy’nin yenilikçi podcast reklam modellerini kullanan ilk müşterisi L’oreal Paris oldu - 🔗
👗 SOCAR Türkiye’den kadın liderler yetiştirilmesi için özel program: Women Energy - 🔗
💰 İngiltere merkezli endüstri 4.0 girişimi Thingtrax, Vinci Girişim Sermayesi’nden yatırım aldı - 🔗
📣 SabancıDx’in Hollanda merkezli çatı kuruluşu DxBV’den yeni teknoloji markası: Opportune - 🔗
📈 Yerli çalışan verimliliği ve zaman takibi uygulaması: Worktivity - 🔗
🦄 Papara Becomes Turkey’s First Fintech Unicorn - 🔗
🚀 Türkiye’de girişimlere 2023’ün ilk yarısında 130 turda 111 milyon dolar yatırım yapıldı - 🔗
📣 Aydın Doğan Yalçındağ ve Anıl Mertol’un kurucusu olduğu yatırım uygulaması Ortak, yayınlandı - 🔗
🛴 Martı halka arzı gerçekleşti: Tüm detaylar - 🔗
💰 Yerli bulut mutfak girişimi Rafinera Cloud Kitchen, 550 bin dolar yatırım aldı - 🔗
💰 Video ve reklam altyapıları geliştiren MotionWorks, APY Ventures'tan 300 bin dolar yatırım aldı - 🔗
💰 E-ticaret şirketlerine odaklanan yerli girişim Rierino, 1,25 milyon dolar yatırım aldı - 🔗 / Istanbul’s Rierino is raring to go after raising $1.25 million to expand its low-code ecommerce solution across Europe - 🔗
🤝 Papara, İspanya merkezli neobank Rebellion’ı satın aldı - 🔗
📣 Paya dayalı yeni kitle fonlama platformu: Nar Fon - 🔗
🚀 Global Startups / VC News :
💰 Debt prevention platform SuperFi raises $1 million to launch pilot in London - 🔗
💸 Solaris raises $42M at a flat $1.6B valuation to expand in embedded finance after a rough 2022 – 🔗 / Fintech girişimi Solaris, 38 milyon euro yani yaklaşık 41.8 milyon dolar yatırım aldığını duyurdu. - 🔗
💰 SoftBank backs Japanese robotics startup Telexistence in $170M funding round - 🔗
📣 Elon Musk announces new AI start-up - 🔗
👓 Roblox is coming to Meta Quest VR headsets - 🔗
🛍️🛒 E-commerce / Grocery:
📣 Amazon offers concessions over third-party sales to appease UK antitrust watchdog - 🔗
🛍️ Shopify sees SEA ecommerce as “the future” - 🔗
❌ Rekabet Kurumu, Trendyol'a 61 milyon TL idari para cezası verdi - 🔗
📈 Trendyol’un Almanya'daki müşteri sayısı, ilk yılın sonunda 1 milyonu geçti - 🔗
📣 Hukuki, lojistik ve finansal altyapı hizmetleri sunan e-ihracat platformu: MegaMerchant - 🔗
✋Whole Foods to deploy Amazon One chainwide. The chain plans to offer the palm recognition and payment system at its more than 500 stores by the end of 2023. - 🔗
❗Amazon to close three fresh stores this month - 🔗
📉 Walmart cuts price of Walmart+ for households that receive food stamps, other government aid - 🔗
✋ Amazon to launch pay-by-palm technology at all Whole Foods stores by year-end - 🔗
📣 Walmart+ Assist halves the price of its Prime competitor for those on government assistance - 🔗
📉 Buy now, pay later app downloads decline - 🔗
🏪 Tesco launches digital transformation programme across cafes - 🔗
🛒 Online supermarket Ocado has opened the doors to its first robotic warehouse in Asia in partnership with Japanese retailer Aeon. The warehouse offers a 50,000 SKU product range, Smart Cart function, and one-hour delivery slots. - 🔗
🛒 From transformation to possible takeover, what’s going on at Ocado? - 🔗
🤖 Simbe’s inventory robots score $28 million in funding - 🔗
🛒 Amazon becomes first US company to challenge EU digital rules - 🔗
📺 Roku users can buy products from Shopify merchants with their TV remote - 🔗
🤖 Shopify'dan satıcılar için yapay zeka destekli asistan: Sidekick - 🔗
🛍️ US e-commerce sales to exceed $1.1 trillion in 2023: report - 🔗
💰 CADDi raises $89M Series C to scale its B2B supply chain marketplace for manufacturing parts - 🔗
🤝 Migros, CRC Kurumsal şirketinin yüzde 50'sini 2.9 milyon dolara satın alıyor - 🔗
📈 Yandex Ads %38 daha yüksek reklam harcaması getirisi ile Beymen'in çevrim içi satışlarını artırdı - 🔗
🍲FoodTech / Food Companies:
📣 New fund shows food investments are still simmering - 🔗
🌿 M&S is expanding its partnership with agri-tech start-up AgriSound to provide 18 more farms with in-field noise sensor technology. - 🔗
🍬 Nestle introduced a versatile and cost-effective sugar reduction technology that can be applied across different product categories, with benefits beyond sugar reduction. It can also be used to produce low lactose and skimmed milk-based products, while reducing total sugars. - 🔗
🍫 New Zealand-based Oritain raised $57 million Series C funding to expand its forensic product traceability platform, designed to verify the origin of everything from cocoa to coffee - 🔗
💰 Silo raises $32M to help food supply chain companies manage their finances - 🔗
🍫 WNWN Food Labs, the London-based startup developing cocoa-free chocolate, won ‘Best Demo’ in the Häagen-Dazs Start-Up Innovation Challenge - 🔗
🌿 Investors and regulators focus on food tracing - 🔗
💰 Yapay zeka odaklı yerli bulut mutfak girişimi Zest Cloud Kitchens, 450 bin dolar yatırım aldı - 🔗
🍬🍫 Food campaigners push for clearer labelling on nutrition risks - 🔗
🍔 Beyond Stack Burger will hit shelves this summer - 🔗
🤖 🎮 🌎 AI / Web3 / Metaverse / Blockchain / Gaming:
📣 Sam Altman’s Worldcoin eyeball-scanning crypto project launches – 🔗 / Sam Altman'ın Worldcoin'i piyasaya sürüldü - 🔗
₿ New Bitcoin ETFs Now? Amid the Crypto Crackdown ? - 🔗
💰 Some VCs are turning away from crypto, but CoinFund is diving deeper with latest $158M fund - 🔗
📣 Meta launches an AI research community but devotes few resources to it - 🔗
♻️ Sustainability:
♻️ Teknoloji şirketlerinin karbon emisyonlarındaki rolü - 🔗
🗑️ 10 milyon dolar değerleme üzerinden yatırım alan Plastic Move, Amerika pazarına açılıyor - 🔗
🔖 Worth Reading ✨
📣 Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ - 🔗
❗Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu, Twitter'a reklam verilmesini yasakladı - 🔗
📈 Early-stage SaaS startups grow the same with or without VC dollars - 🔗
✨ McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2023 - 🔗
🌎 The State of Globalization in 2023 - 🔗
💸 Silicon Valley start-ups explore sales as funding runs dry - 🔗
📈 Carta data on valuations for the just completed Q2’23. Every stage, from seed to series D, saw the median pre-money valuation rise this quarter. - 🔗
⭐ News from Yıldız Ventures & Portfolio Companies
✨ We attended #BakuID23, the main startup & innovation event in Azerbaijan created by SABAH.HUB Innovation Center - 🔗
✨ We attended the UN Women EXPO Capital Quest 2023 event where 24 women entrepreneurs from 12 countries across Europe and Central Asia meet at the exclusive event to pitch their business ideas to investors. - 🔗
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