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Toyota AI Ventures looking to fund robotic startups

July 12, 2018
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On wednesday, Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Toyota AI Ventures partnered with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) to open a “call for innovation” with the goal of funding startups with good ideas…

Meet the 10 Egyptian startups that pitched at MINT Incubator demo day

July 12, 2018
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Cairo Angels, which invests in and supports startups across the Middle East and Africa, and EGBank launched a startup incubator in Egypt - MINT Incubator. The MINT Incubator is designed to support startups…

Google Introduces Launchpad Accelerator For AI, ML Startups In India

July 11, 2018
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On Tuesday, Google India announced a new mentorship program, Launchpad Accelerator India, for startups using machine learning/ artificial intelligence "to build solutions for India’s local needs." The three-month accelerator programme…

Google and Uber invest $335 million in scooter startup Lime

July 10, 2018
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Less than two weeks after Bird announced it had raised $300 million at $2 billion valuation, on monday, scooter rival Lime announced a new funding round of $335 million. The round was…

Fintech Europe Selects Nine Startups for its Inaugural Batch

July 10, 2018
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Fintech Europe, Plug and Play's newest innovation platform, based out of Frankfurt, Germany, announced today the nine startups selected for its first batch. With Deutsche Bank and TechQuartier as the founding…

Timehop’s database breach affects 21 million users

July 9, 2018
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Timehop, an app that resurfaces your old photos and posts by connecting to your social media profiles, revealed that its cloud computing environment was hacked and the data of 21 million users was…

Startups duo seeks €19m in ICO for crypto exchange

July 9, 2018
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Two Irish entrepreneurs Joe Haslam and Conor O'Connor are seeking up to €19m in an initial coin offering, ahead of the launch next month of Local Token Exchange (LTE), a…

Food Tech startup HungerBox raises $4.5 Mn in Series A round

July 6, 2018
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Indian-based food and beverage tech startup HungerBox has secured $4.5 million in a Series A round. The round was led by Neoplux and India’s home grown private equity fund Sabre Partners…

Australian fintech startup Airwallex raises $US80 million in its Series B funding round

July 5, 2018
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Melbourne-based fintech start-up Airwallex has closed a $US80 million ($108 million) Series B round, the second-largest fundraising round in Australian start-up history, and the largest world-wide so far this year.…

Startup Spotlight: Interview with Matthew Elan Smith founder of Insuretech startup Pineapple

Pineapple (formerly Amyti) is a Johannesburg-based P2P insurer, and South Africa’s first P2P insurer. Founded… ∞

Startup Spotlight: Interview with Amber McDonald CEO of Indemnis

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, have been with us for a while.… ∞

Startup spotlight: Interview with Johannes Degn co-founder of Lynk

We had a chance to speak to Johannes Degn co-founder of Lynk a network of… ∞

10 promising European startups founded by women

Despite the high disparity in the number of startups founded by men and women due… ∞

Apple to offer coding camps for women-founded startups

Apple will offer a two-week technology lab at its campus in Cupertino in which participants… ∞

Feedr secures £1.54 million in Pre-Series A funding

Feedr, a London, UK-based intelligent lunch platform startup that uses technology to offer office employees… ∞

UNICEF Funds 6 Blockchain Startups to solve global challenges

Announced Monday, UNICEF is investing $100,000 in six blockchain startups to “solve global challenges using blockchain technology,”… ∞

UK tech for good Startups receive £400k from The Social Tech Trust

Nine of the UK’s most promising ‘tech for good’ startups have received £400,000 of funding… ∞