China-born audio networking app Tiya sets up Singapore headquarters
TikTok may be the most successful app that has emerged from China and is making impressive international inroads, but there is a host of smaller entertainment...
Mecho Autotech gets $2.15M to expand vehicle maintenance and repair services in Nigeria
Nigeria has more than 12 million registered vehicles, and approximately 90% of them are used cars that need frequent checkups to prevent recurring breakdowns. Given this...
News Showcase is launching in Poland
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Women in Tech: “Be assertive, use language that shows that you are.”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech companies...
BasiGo secures $4.3 million in seed funding to accelerate mass transit EV adoption in Kenya
Kenya-based EV startup BasiGo has closed $4.3 million in seed funding, three months after setting up operations in East Africa’s biggest economy, to provide clean-energy mass...
Scandit snaps up $150M at a $1B+ valuation for its computer vision-based data capture technology
Consumers and businesses are forever demanding faster and easier ways to get things done, and today a startup that is building tech to make that a...
Destinus plans to fly a hydrogen-powered, hypersonic cargo craft with $29M seed round
A new venture from space infrastructure company Momentus founder and former CEO Mikhail Kokorich aims to build a hypersonic aircraft for autonomous cargo delivery around the...
Egyptian investment app Thndr nabs $20M from Tiger Global, Prosus Ventures and others
The MENA region has about 400 million people with $500 billion in annual savings. But as a relatively young population, most of them have minimal equity...
To cope with stricter data regulation, enterprises should look to fully open APIs
Jean-Paul Smets Contributor Share on Twitter Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space, a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks...
Indian logistics firm Xpressbees becomes unicorn with $300 million fresh funding
Xpressbees, an Indian logistics startup that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, has more than tripled its valuation to $1.2 billion in a new...
