Sino-US investment firms are targeting over $4 billion for new funds launched this year

As limited partners increasingly demand greater exposure to emerging market opportunities, venture capital firms with a focus on Asia are bulking up their funds and chasing deals in an increasingly competitive race to own stakes in the next generation of local startups with global aspirations. […]

Threads raises $20M for its luxury goods ’boutique’ that exists only in messaging apps

When you think of e-commerce marketplaces, chances are that the first things that come to mind are storefronts built on websites and apps. But today an e-commerce startup that has never had either — and never plans to — has raised a fistful of cash […]

Netflix releases its first trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘ROMA’

According to the film’s synopsis, the characters try “to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined” at a time (1970s) and “country (Mexico) facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and […]