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21:02 21.03.2022

French aerospace company Gama raises $2M to develop a solar sail spacecraft

Just as sea breezes propel sailboats across the sea on Earth, solar radiation might one day be able to propel spacecraft between the stars. Or at least that’s the hope of French start-up Gama. The aerospace company was founded in 2020 by Louis de Gouyon Matignon, Thibaud Elziere, and Andrew Nutter, whose goal is to […]... →

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16:06 21.03.2022

Glia raises $45M at a $1B+ valuation for an AI-based CRM that lets agents get hands-on to help

The world continues to shift more of its customer service needs online, and those building tools to help manage that demand are seeing their stars rise as a result. In the latest development, Glia — which builds AI-based CRM solutions for agents to converse with customers across multiple mediums (including video, voice, messaging, email and […]... →

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15:00 21.03.2022

Ramp confirms new $8.1B valuation after ‘a nearly 10x’ YoY increase in revenue

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 billion. In early February, The Information reported on the then-unconfirmed raise and new valuation. The approaching decacorn valuation is quite remarkable given that less than one year […]... →

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10:57 21.03.2022

Gensyn applies a token to distributed computing for AI developers, raises $6.5M

For self-driving cars and other applications developed using AI, you need what’s known as ‘deep learning’, the core concepts of which emerged in the ‘50s. This requires training models based on similar patterns as seen in the human brain. This, in turn, requires a large amount of compute power, as afforded by TPUs (Tensor Processing […]... →

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10:00 21.03.2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo raises $40 million in Softbank-led round, joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CDC

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture, which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. This is after raising $40 million in Series B funding in a round led […]... →

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23:01 18.03.2022

ClearBank, a UK banking rails provider, raises $230M from Apax to expand into Europe and the U.S.

ClearBank — a UK fintech that has built a new set of cloud-based financial rails that allows banks and other customers real-time clearance on payment transactions and other financial services — has closed a big round of funding, money it will be using to take its services beyond its home market and move into newer […]... →

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14:15 18.03.2022

Meaningful Gigs raises $6M seed to link designers in Africa with remote jobs from US companies

The gig economy has been on an upward trajectory and more so since 2020 when it experienced a huge spurt accelerated by the covid pandemic. And it is not showing signs of a slowdown the world over, with the sector’s growth now expected to reach $455 billion in 2023, double the value in 2018 and […]... →

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12:23 18.03.2022

Как кризис помог Копенгагену создать инфраструктуру для велосипедистов

В часпик на улицах Копенгагена, столицы Дании, чаще всего встречаются велосипедисты — примерно две трети жителей выбирают этот вид транспорта, чтобы добраться до школы и работы. Но так было не всегда. Чтобы добиться существенных перемен, которые сохранятся надолго, потребовались повышение цен на нефть и значительные инвестиции в инфраструктуру.... →

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05:50 18.03.2022

Рынок недвижимости Грузии: о чем стоит знать перед покупкой

Рынок недвижимости в Грузии активно развивается: здесь много туристов и приятный климат даже зимой, а значит, квартиры пользуются спросом круглый год. Кристина Яворская, руководитель и владелец агентства недвижимости Iberia, рассказывает, какие привелегии дает владение недвижимостью в Грузии и стоит ли сейчас покупать здесь квартиру в качестве инвестиции.... →

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20:13 17.03.2022

How Chicago is changing who raises early-stage venture capital

New VC data out of Chicago shows that it is possible to change the ratio when it comes to venture investment.... →

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15:08 17.03.2022

Сервис вывоза мусора и вторсырья «Убиратор» привлёк 170 млн рублей от фонда «Тилтех капитал» и других

Инвестиции пойдут на покупку новых пунктов приёма отходов и развитие собственной системы для управления их ресурсами.... →

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12:03 17.03.2022

Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of global investors, shaping the narrative of African tech and its build-up to an inflection point last […]... →

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01:30 17.03.2022

Daily Crunch: B2B marketplace Sokowatch raises $125M Series B, rebrands as ‘Wasoko’

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.... →

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21:47 16.03.2022

Netflix tests a new feature that will raise prices for account sharing

Netflix will begin testing a new feature that will prompt subscribers to pay extra if sharing the service with people outside their own household. The feature will allow households to add up to two “sub accounts” for a fee that’s less than the cost of the full-priced Netflix service. The new option will initially be […]... →

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21:06 16.03.2022

Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync

You’d think that synchronizing the clocks across a fleet of modern servers is a solved problem, but it’s actually quite a hard challenge to solve, especially if you want to get to nanosecond accuracy. This also means that it remains an axiom in computer science that you should never build a system based on clock […]... →

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16:00 16.03.2022

TruEra raises $35M for its AI analytics and monitoring platform

TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Greylock Partners, Wing Venture Capital (which led its $12 million Series A round in late 2020), Harpoon Ventures, Conversion […]... →

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12:49 16.03.2022

Sokowatch rebrands to Wasoko as it raises $125M Series B from Tiger Global and Avenir

Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods are sold through its channels yearly. Yet its industry remains highly fragmented as shop owners and kiosks still have issues around access to capital and getting goods regularly and on time from suppliers and distributors. B2B retail and e-commerce platforms […]... →

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07:36 16.03.2022

Remote work platform Multiplier raises $60M Series B at $400M valuation

Multiplier, a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised a $60 million Series B at a valuation of $400 million. The round was co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, and brings Multiplier total investment since it was founded in […]... →

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06:59 16.03.2022

Talent.com raises $120M to take on Indeed and ZipRecruiter in mass-market job search

Online recruitment was one of the early and big hits of the first dot-com boom. But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in […]... →

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06:00 16.03.2022

Indonesian earned wage access platform Wagely raises $8.3M as it expands into Bangladesh

Wagely, an earned wage access (EWA) platform based in Jakarta and Dhaka, has raised $8.3 million in pre-Series A funding, just seven months after announcing its seed round. The new funds will be used to fuel wagely’s expansion in Bangladesh, where it recently launched, and build other features to become a “holistic financial wellness platform,” […]... →

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