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Singapore VC Granite Asia Leads $60 Million Funding Round for AI ‘Data Foundry’ Centific to Fuel Global Expansion
Granite Asia was one of two foreign VCs, alongside Taiwan’s AppWorks, selected to take part in a new Malaysian initiative to invest in local startups and encourage global companies to redomicile in the Southeast Asian country.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Cape Town’s Open Access Energy Raises $1.8 Million to Scale AI-Driven Electricity Trading
Cape Town-based startup Open Access Energy (OAE) has secured $1.8 million (R32.3 million) in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform for electricity trading.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ola Krutrim Acquires AI Platform Bharatsah’Ai’Yak
With this acquisition, Ola Krutrim plans to integrate BharatSah’AI’yak into its LLMs, cloud infrastructure, and agentic platform Kruti.
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- Agriculture, Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Senegalese E-Health Startup KERA Raises $10 Million Funding from IFC
Senegalese e-health startup KERA Health Platforms has raised US$10 million in funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First-Of-A-Kind AI Driven Platform Linking Blue Economy Projects and Investors Unveiled
Salesforce’s agentic AI technology is being embedded within the Platform so that projects and investors from around the world can be linked in a way which was previously not possible.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Analysis: Harnessing the Private Sector for Better Development Data
Reliable, disaggregated, and up-to-date data is mission critical for companies expanding into frontier markets, investing in resilient supply chains or designing inclusive financial services.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Indian Medical Imaging AI Company Qure.ai Unveils AI Co-Pilot for Community Health Workers in India
"Primary health systems in developing nations are overburdened with high patient volume and care demand while lacking or not having enough resources."
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Safaricom Commits $500 Million to AI Infrastructure in Bold Move to Shape East Africa’s Digital Future
The company has already trained 5,000 employees in AI fundamentals, signaling its intention to actively shape the region’s digital future.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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