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Online ID verification is seeing a spike in demand driven by COVID-19
With many businesses switching staff to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic there’s been a clearly chronicled surge in demand for videoconferencing and others comms tools like Zoom. Other types of startups are also seeing a bump in usage as both consumers and businesses seek to do more online during a global health crisis. Telehealth […]
YC graduate Genecis Bioindustries turns food waste into compostable plastics
Unfortunately, the world doesn’t have a constant quantity of problems, and while governments and most private businesses are focused on tackling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, companies like Genecis Bioindustries are working on technologies to solve another major problem: climate change. For over a decade, sustainability advocates and entrepreneurs have been searching for a way to […]
Riot automatically educates your team about phishing
Meet Riot, a company participating in Y Combinator’s current batch that wants to help you fight phishing attempts. Riot runs fake phishing campaigns on your employees. For instance, your team members could receive an email saying that their Google account has been deactivated to see if they can spot real email notifications from fake ones. […]
A snapshot of the leading startups in Africa’s top VC markets
TechCrunch did a synopsis recently on Africa’s 2019 VC stats. Analyses from investment fund Partech and media outlets Disrupt Africa and WeeTracker came up with varied numbers, but there was a common trend: the top two countries for venture capital to startups across all three studies were Nigeria and Kenya. TechCrunch covered a number of […]
Huboo picks up investment from Maersk Growth, the venture arm of container logistics giant A.P. Moller – Maersk
Huboo, the U.K. startup that operates a multi-channel fulfilment service for e-commerce businesses of varying sizes, has picked up an undisclosed amount of investment from Maersk Growth, the venture arm of Danish container logistics giant A.P. Moller – Maersk. The funding is described as a bridge round designed to see Huboo through to a future […]
Afternoon News Roundup: Temasek, others invest US$500M in American plant-based meat company Impossible Foods
Temasek, others invest US$500M in America’s plant-based meat company Impossible Foods US-based Impossible Foods has raised US$500 million in a Series F funding round, led by South Korean investor Mirae Asset Global Investments, according to DealStreet Asia. Other investors in this round include Khosla Ventures, Horizons Ventures, and Temasek. This brings its total funding to […]
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