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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria. According to Ideh, the seed investment will take Stears from a v2.0,

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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

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The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. Assent’s compliance platform provides centralized access to supply chain data for use by teams across a given company. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC.

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Daily Crunch: Nigerian startup that stored its ‘day-to-day operational budget’ on FTX announces staff cuts 

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Mary Ann starts us off by reporting on SoftBank writing down an almost $100 million investment into FTX. Startups and VC. At this point, we all expect our data to move pretty quickly, but there is so much of it that it’s still a headache. The real-time data startup grabbed $12.9 No bother, we are here for you.

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Why you have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene

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Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. After a somewhat average start to the year, Indian startups saw their venture capital investment fall to just $1.5

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

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Then in 2019, the state of technology was such that Li and co-founders Daniel Chen and Jeremy Huang could create data extraction capabilities through the use of artificial intelligence-driven software. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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