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Cameroonian fintech startup Diool raises $3.5m in funding to expand operations
Cameroonian fintech startup Diool raised US$3.5 million in funding to scale operations. Diool started life as a mobile recharge project back in 2015, ...
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First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America
Some members of the Black community took their belief that big banks are not meeting their needs and turned them into startup concepts. ...
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Angolan crowdfunding startup, Deya’s secures over $50,000 pre-seed
Angolan crowdfunding startup, Deya has secured its first round of pre-seed raise to the tune of over $50,000, this round was obtained from ...
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Aquarium scores $2.6M seed to refine machine learning model data
Aquarium, a startup from two former Cruise employees, wants to help companies refine their machine learning model data more easily and move the ...
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Japanese venture-capitalists get behind African startups
Japan’s Uncovered Fund has launched a $15m fund to back early-stage African startups that will close in June. Since 2018, this Tokyo-based outfit ...
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Infra.Market becomes India’s newest unicorn with $100 million fundraise
The newest unicorn in India is a startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure ...
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Oak HC/FT closes on $1.4 billion to invest in fintech and healthcare startups
Oak HC/FT general partners Annie Lamont, Andrew Adams and Tricia Kemp invested in healthcare and fintech before the two sectors were mainstream, and ...
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Spain’s Wallapop raises $191M at an $840M valuation for its classifieds marketplace
Through all of 2020’s lockdowns, venue closures and other social distancing measures that governments have enacted and people have followed to slow the ...
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Maple launches with $3.5 million in funding to become the SaaS backoffice for the family
Much of our daily lives have been transformed in one way or another by technology – and often through intentional efforts to innovate ...
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Mirato Raises $9 Million to Fund AI-Based Supplier Risk Platform
In another indicator of the market’s acceptance of AI, Tel Aviv-based Mirato has raised $9 million to support the development and commercialization of ...