Duplo digitizes payment flows for African B2B enterprises, gets $4.3M seed funding

Duplo digitizes payment flows for African B2B enterprises, gets $4.3M seed funding

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The process of sending and receiving payments in a $1.5 trillion B2B payments market in sub-Saharan Africa is one where merchants commonly...

Kula makes the job recruitment process less exhausting

Kula makes the job recruitment process less exhausting

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The process of finding job candidates often entails a lot of tedious manual work for recruiters, like sending versions of the same email over...

Topi raises $45M to power hardware subscriptions for B2B merchants

Topi raises $45M to power hardware subscriptions for B2B merchants

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A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making...

Twitter’s attempt to monetize porn reportedly halted due to child safety warnings

Twitter’s attempt to monetize porn reportedly halted due to child safety warnings

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Despite serving as the online watercooler for journalists, politicians and VCs, Twitter isn’t the most profitable social network on the block. Amid...

California pushes ahead with its own children’s online privacy protections

California pushes ahead with its own children’s online privacy protections

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California lawmakers have passed a bill that seeks to make apps and other online spaces safer for kids in the absence of robust federal standards....

Magic Eden looks to challenge OpenSea’s NFT dominance

Magic Eden looks to challenge OpenSea’s NFT dominance

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Few startups in the crypto world boast the market dominance that OpenSea currently enjoys, but numerous venture-backed startups are looking...

Dubai-based Stake raises $8 million to let people across the globe invest in local properties

Dubai-based Stake raises $8 million to let people across the globe invest in local properties

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Dubai-based startup Stake is offering retail investors from across the globe to buy fractions of rental property in UAE’s marquee city and...

PostEx acquires Call Courier to become Pakistan’s larger e-commerce service provider

PostEx acquires Call Courier to become Pakistan’s larger e-commerce service provider

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Pakistani fintech PostEx has acquired logistics service provider Call Courier, creating what it describes as the largest e-commerce service...

Peter Thiel backs electronics marketplace PriceOye in maiden Pakistan investment

Peter Thiel backs electronics marketplace PriceOye in maiden Pakistan investment

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A Pakistani startup, which has taken inspiration from China’s JD.com and India’s Flipkart to build a managed marketplace of electronics products,...

Singapore-based career development platform Glints recruits $50M in new funding

Singapore-based career development platform Glints recruits $50M in new funding

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Glints, one of Southeast Asia’s largest talent development and recruitment platforms, announced today it ha raised $50 million in an oversubscribed...

Singapore-based Propseller uses data to take the hassle out of real estate transactions

Singapore-based Propseller uses data to take the hassle out of real estate transactions

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Headquartered in Singapore, proptech startup Propseller is on a mission to make real estate transactions more efficient and data-driven for...

Finally, an underwater messaging app

Finally, an underwater messaging app

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Don’t you hate it when, after going just five or 10 meters underwater, you lose signal completely? Now this vexing limitation of modern technology...

Netflix’s ad-supported plan could cost as low as $7

Netflix’s ad-supported plan could cost as low as $7

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Netflix’s upcoming ad-supported plan could cost anywhere from $7 to $9 per month according to a Bloomberg report published over the weekend....

The majority of early-stage VC deals fall apart in due diligence

The majority of early-stage VC deals fall apart in due diligence

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Covering Five Flute’s fundraising and tearing down the deck the company used to raise its $1.2 million seed round had me wondering: How...

Can battery recycling help end US reliance on China?

Can battery recycling help end US reliance on China?

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The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden earlier this month, puts the U.S. on the path toward realizing its carbon...

Aston Martin Valhalla plug-in hybrid to shape future EVs

Aston Martin Valhalla plug-in hybrid to shape future EVs

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Aston Martin is using its upcoming Valhalla high-performance plug-in hybrid to develop a playbook for its future EVs. Executives said that...

Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

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