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Dreamit Ventures Announces Spring 2020 Cohort, Kicks Off Its First Fully Virtual Program

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The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. pic.twitter.com/oNozwB4OF3 — Dreamit Ventures (@dreamit) March 19, 2020.

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Nigerian fintech Okra raises $3.5M backed by Accenture Ventures and Susa Ventures

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But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues. based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. In total, Okra has raised $4.5 guaranteed uptime. .

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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

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AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019.

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Southeast Asian open finance startup Brankas gets $20M Series B led by Insignia Ventures

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The funding was led by Insignia Ventures Partners, with participation from returning investors Beenext and Integra Partners. For more about Brankas’ start, see TechCrunch’s 2019 profile of the company , the same year it raised its Series A. Brankas wants to bring Southeast Asia’s banks and e-commerce into the digital era.

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Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform Amitruck raises $4 million, embarks on Uganda, Tanzania expansion

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Amitruck , a Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform, is one such provider of solutions that streamline the shipping market. And at the moment, it can cost up to five times more than it does in more developed markets to move those goods,” said Mwangi. Image Credits: Amitruck. In Africa, 99% of goods have to use a vehicle of some type.

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Chipotle launches $50M venture fund in bid to foster new restaurant tech

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In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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Pangaea Holdings, developing men’s personal care brands, raises $68M, including minority stake from Eurazeo

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The investment is part of a larger $68 million round that includes $15 million in Series B funding from a group of backers including Unilever Ventures and GPO Fund and existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.