Latest marketplace deals:
Selected this week:
🇺🇸 Xpansiv, the San Francisco based marketplace for players to buy and sell carbon and environmental commodities, has raised a $400M Growth VC round. The funding will be used to fuel scale as governments and companies make pledges in reducing or become net-zero in carbon emissions.
🇧🇷 CarboNext, a Brazilian carbon credit marketplace, has raised $40M from Royal Dutch Shell in an Early VC round. The company currently manages over 2 million hectares of land and plans CarboNext will gain access to more advanced monitoring technologies while Shell will gain preference in negotiations of carbon credits.
🇨🇳 Ouyeel, the China-based steel transaction marketplace, has raised $35M to continue operations. The startup helped transact over $20B in the last year and aims at $29B for its next phase.
Other promising marketplace deals:
🇮🇳 Vegrow, the Indian agricultural marketplace that works by clustering farmers together to gain efficiency in trading and shipping, has raised $25M in a Series B.
🇺🇸 Crowdstreet, the US-based crowdsourcing real estate investment platform, has raised a $23M round.
Explore 100 funding rounds of the last week.
Notable exits:
🇳🇬🇸🇳 AutoCheck, the Nigeria-based auto trading platform, has acquired CoinAfrique, Senegal-based classifieds platform for french-speaking African countries.
🇫🇮 Intera Partners, a Finnish PE firm, has bought out Duunitori, a Finnish jobs platform.
Explore 16 exits of the last week.