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- Mar- 2022 -29 March
Volta Labs gets funding worth $20 million
Volta Labs has successfully secured funding worth $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck. The Series A round was led by Maverick Ventures (Maverick also led a previous seed round). Along with participation from Khosla Ventures, Casdin Capital, and…
- 25 March
Susu to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa
Susu is an Ivorian health-tech startup being backed with $1 million in pre-seed funding to help patients better manage their medical bills
- 24 March
Uppbeat raises $6.15 million Series A
Uppbeat is a U.K.-based music platform launched in January 2021. It has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. They can also publish it to platforms like…
- 23 March
Gopuff launches instant delivery service in France
Gopuff launched its instant grocery delivery service in the U.K. late last year. The company operates a network of 20 dark stores. These stores have around 4,000 different products. Customers can order groceries, household essentials, alcohol, ice cream, diapers, iPhone chargers.…
- 14 March
HCS Pharma expects a 90% success rate on cancer drugs tests
HCS Pharma expects a 90% success rate in the cancer drugs tests due to the re-creation of organs in-vitro with BIOMIMESYS technology.
- 9 March
Nomad closes on $20M to ‘transform the landlord-tenant experience
Nomad is a marketplace that plans to furnish humble investment property proprietors. It has brought $20 million up in a Series A
- 8 March
Will “Digital Human” really threaten the position of “real human”?
KLleon is a Korean AI Deep Human technology tech startup. One if its many products include AI Digital Human KLone
- Feb- 2022 -25 February
Xiaomi leads funding round in startup Chilye
Chilye, a Chinese startup that develops high-voltage battery systems for EVs has raised around RMB 100 million ($15.7 million)
- 24 February
Zheli, China’s viral metaverse social app halts downloads
The new app Zheli was pulled out from the app stores across the country. It was done by the owners to address some controversies.
- 23 February
Mustard raises another $3.75M for sensor-free sports coaching
Los Angeles-based sports training platform Mustard this week announced a $3.75 million round led by Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Fund
- 22 February
GoTo Global going public via a shell company merger
GoTo Global is an Israeli versatility organization. It offers shared micromobility and vehicle sharing administrations in Spain, Israel, Malta, and Germany. The company is opening up to the world on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) through a merger with…
- 20 February
Scandit raises $150M at a $1B+ valuation for its computer vision-based data capture technology
Scandit is a smart data capture software on smart devices. It utilizes PC vision to filter scanner tags, text, ID cards, or any actual item to set off mechanized reactions, give investigation, etc. The startup is building tech to make…
- 19 February
Mecho Autotech gets $2.15M to expand vehicle maintenance and repair services in Nigeria
Mecho Autotech has been founded by Olusegun Owoade and Ayoola Akinkunmi to tackle the poor vehicle maintenance culture prevalent in Nigeria.
- 18 February
Destinus plans to fly a hydrogen-powered, hypersonic cargo craft with a $29M seed round
Mikhail Kokorich's Destinus intends to assemble a hypersonic airplane for independent freight conveyance all over the planet.
- 17 February
Egyptian investment app Thndr nabs $20M
Thndr has raised a $20 million Series A round to democratize putting resources into the Middle East and North Africa.
- 9 February
Wallonia’s Eureka Park Booth at CES 2022
Eureka park of Wallonia was seen with some very interesting startups at CES 2022. Wallonia has an excellent logistics infrastructure and multimodality. The Wallonia Export & Investment Agency (AWEX) is the institution in charge of the development and management of…
- 8 February
Wallonia startups at CES 2022 – showcasing Venetian Booth
Two separate Digital Wallonia startups stands were set up. Venetian Expo #51130. And, second was Eureka Park #61255.
- 1 February
BillEase – A Philippines Startup scores $11M Series B
BillEase is a Philippines-based buy-now-pay-later startup. It announced recently that it has raised an $11 million Series B.
- Jan- 2022 -31 January
Common Computer to publish a video of South Korea’s presidential candidate pledge as an NFT
Common Computer, along with YTN and Block Media, will publish a video of the 22nd South Korea presidential candidate’s pledge on NFT. This is the first case of making a pledge as an NFT
