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Charging Infrastructure Provider Bolt.Earth Nets $5 Million
The company plans to use the fresh capital for scaling up its business operations.
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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Indonesia’s Skor Technologies Raises $6.2 Million in Pre-Series a Funding Led by Argor Capital
The capital raised will be focused on helping the business achieve scale while growing the team with key talents across the organization.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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South Park Commons Is Raising $40 Million for an India-Specific Fund
Unlike traditional VC funds and incubators like Y Combinator, South Park Commons looks for technologists who have strong ideas but may not be ready to fundraise yet.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- venture capital
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Africa’s Startups Need Patient Capital: Could the African Diaspora Help Provide it?
African startup funding amounts to a tiny fraction of global venture capital (VC), and these investments are often concentrated on sectors like fintech and e-commerce. As a result, as Kristin H. Wilson at Innovate Africa Fund argues, African founders often lack the capital and incentive to tackle the continent’s biggest development challenges. She proposes a new approach to funding innovative African-made solutions to these issues — one that leverages the capital and entrepreneurial expertise of the African diaspora.
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- Health Care, Investing
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VC Investment in Emerging Markets Plummeted by Over 40% Last Year
The data mirrors the wider global trend of reduced VC funding in the last two years, especially for non-AI companies.
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- Investing
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- Global
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- data, research, venture capital
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Superfone, an All-In-One Business Phone and CRM App for SMBs, Raises $1.9 Million in India
This investment aims to fuel Superfone's mission of transforming how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) manage communication and operations.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Fashion Marketplace LAAM Gets $5.5 Million to Make South Asian Fashion Accessible to the World
LAAM has emerged as a leading platform for South Asian fashion, offering a curated catalog of over 100,000 items from more than 1,000 brands—the largest collection of its kind globally.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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PBR Life Sciences Raises $1 Million Pre-seed to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Data Platforms Across Africa
Previously targeting 1000 pharmacies in Nigeria, PBR will use this new funding to expand its AI-driven health data solutions in Ghana and Kenya.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa