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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Quick thoughts : Off the back of DoorDash’s IPO, Y Combinator seems set on replicating that success in other markets, including Africa, where the likes of Glovo and Jumia Food are ramping up efforts to grab market share. Founded in : 2019. Website : [link]. Team size : 30 . Location : Lagos, Nigeria. Website : [link].

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Affirm spinout Resolve raises $25M in Insight Partners-led round to grow B2B buy now, pay later offering

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Since launching as a spinout from Affirm in 2019, Resolve says it has seen “overwhelming” demand for its B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) billing offering for business purchases. . Resolve, ahem, resolves to make net terms simple and easily embeddable. Image Credits: Resolve. It was laborious and took a lot of time and money.

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Here’s a new corporate card startup, backed by $157M in equity, debt, going after Brex, Ramp

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Sibous and Ray founded Parker in 2019 and were part of the Y Combinator winter 2019 cohort. The company focuses on the middle market — companies doing $3 million to $100 million in annual sales.

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Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021

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2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. We believed then, as we do now, that fintech represents one of the most exciting major innovation cycles of this decade. More posts by this contributor. Dana Stalder.

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AI-driven energy startup Octopus hits $2B mark after $200M investment from Tokyo Gas

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Octopus will now launch as a brand in Japan with its trademark 100% renewable electricity operation, which uses an innovative AI and data-based platform to balance loads around the grid. Octopus has a 5% share of the energy supply market and counts 1.8 by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% In the U.K.,

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How we’re driving sustainable impact for business and society

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For decades, we’ve been investing in innovation, partnerships, and programs that apply our technology, scale, and talented workforce to drive human progress – all intending to have a measurable influence on some of the complex challenges important to our business, customers, the communities we serve and society at large.

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Ambi Robotics secures $32M infusion to deploy its item-sorting robots in warehouses

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After a breakthrough on a system called Dex-Net , Goldberg and Jeff Mahler, a former doctoral student, launched the company in 2019, along with other scientists and engineers from UC Berkeley. Dex-Net, short for Dexterity Network, is an AI system that trains on thousands of images of 3D models of objects.

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