The CEE region continues to evolve and compete to be at the forefront of the European tech startup scene. So far, 12 unicorns have sprung out of the CEE region, with a combined value of €30 billion. Most were founded in Romania and Poland, with a promising batch of stars…
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Traditional businesses have risen to prominence but only a handful of tech startups have made a lasting impact on the state While Gujarat is practically known and has grown due to its traditional businesses when it came to tech, the state took a little longer than to catch up. Though…
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Saturn Cloud, a provider of data science tools for the enterprise, today announced it has launched the first-ever commercial offering of Dask, a Python-native parallel computing framework for scalable data science. The announcement comes just one month after the startup closed $4 million in seed funding round. Founded just this…
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Agriculture is a large value chain starting from seed to plate and has space for numerous interventions, founder tells Inc42 With farming being a $400 Bn industry in India, leading investors are infusing capital in agritech startups that work towards revolutising farming. There are more than 1,090 agritech startups in…
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Zebra Fuel, the London-based startup that delivered fuel directly to your vehicle — backed by Robin and Saul Klein’s LocalGlobe, Brent Hoberman’s Firstminute Capital and Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman — has told customers it is “no longer” delivering fuel in London. However, it is unclear at this stage if the…
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Statistics released by the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS) in September show a 99% increase this year over 2018 in the number of cases in South Africa involving identity fraud. One startup reckons it’s come up with a way to tackle this. Lance Fanaroff, the co-founder and co-CEO of…
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A CleanTech startup co-founded by a Cambridge University academic is tilting at a minimum $1 million global prize for transformative cooling technology. Barocal Ltd, co-founded by Dr Xavier Moya of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and based on his research, has already clinched $200k by reaching the final…
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Over 100 tech startup founders had the rare privilege of learning potential pitfalls to avoid in their entrepreneurship journey from a panel of successful tech startup founders at the Greenhouse Lab Startup Ecosystem Exchange 2019. The event held on Friday, 22 November 2019, featuring some of Africa’s top founders: Temitope…
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Insurance tech startup Acko General Insurance Ltd has raised $16 million in fresh funding from growth capital provider Ascent Capital, according to the company’s filings with the registrar of companies (RoC), sourced from business intelligence platform Paper.vc. The Mumbai-based insure-tech startup received allotments of “10 equity shares of ₹10 each…
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Private equity fund Zephyr Peacock India Growth Fund, which invests in small and medium enterprises in India, has decided to fund financial solution startup Loanzen, business daily Economic Times reported citing the Press Trust of India. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Loanzen provides financial solutions to the logistics industry. The company plans…
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