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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. Sectoral transformation.

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A Weeklong Series: 10 Tech Trends from the Decade That Was … and What Will Be

Revolution

Over the last decade, there have been many innovations that have changed our lives by addressing long-standing pain points in age-old industries like transportation and financial services, and in so doing, raised complicated questions for policymakers and society. This week, I’ll plan to share?—?in in no particular order?—?two has exploded.

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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

TechCrunch

In Amsterdam, rich people take public transport, not private buses. Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC. Digital health, education, B2B SaaS.

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Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. ArborMetrix. Spellbound AR. It’s already trusted by clients including Nike, Dell, Disney and P&G. Genomenon.

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Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding

TechCrunch

Despite the uncertainty in the tourism sector from the Covid pandemic, the PEV team didn’t slow down but instead went on to launch two startups — Elephant Bookings, a software as a service (SaaS) product, and Nomad.Africa, a content-to-commerce magazine. Bookaway books $35M to scale up its ground transportation booking platform.

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Daily Crunch: After slashing 2,800 jobs, Peloton taps former Spotify CFO to replace outgoing CEO

TechCrunch

Startups/VC. Calendly : The explosive growth of meeting-booking service Calendly was bound to attract competition. Transit security is big business : Flush with a $50 million Series B, Shift5 is working to build transportation security. Why is Amazon in health? Fantastical v. Ron is great, so follow him on Twitter.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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