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Nigerian blockchain payments startup Bitmama closes $2M pre-seed as it scales to new markets

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Despite African governments’ inconsistent stance on cryptocurrencies, these countries house most of the continent’s crypto and blockchain startups. Chief executive officer Ruth Iselema founded the Africa-focused blockchain payments startup in 2019. Adam Umar is the company’s CTO, while Akinbola Asalu is the COO. CEO Ruth Iselema.

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The Missing Link: Blockchain for Digital Supply Chains

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The foundational fabric: blockchain. But as digital twins are employed, deployed, and (mostly) enjoyed as valuable members of the new digital supply chain, we must think about a system of control to ensure that we know what functions they are performing and the results of their simulation calculations.

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Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

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However, when public travel systems provider Amadeus saw the writing on the wall seven years ago, the company decided to embark on a journey that would turn out to be arduous, but put it on the road to operating more efficiently. “The million fundraise and its launch of a B2B fashion e-commerce platform. billion valuation.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

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Legal clashes between surveillance laws and data protection rights are also causing growing B2B headaches, especially for U.S.-based In short, the opportunity for privacy tech, both B2B and consumer-facing, is growing. If the adversary is sufficiently powerful enough all the participants in the system. based cloud services.

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What has KOBO360 been up to in the last 2 years?

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However, over the next couple of forgettable months, these platforms, including Lori Systems which had also closed its Series A round, showed signs of struggle, no thanks to the COVID pandemic and its resulting lockdown restrictions, which stifled most of their on-the-ground operations.

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

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Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. Saturated areas included cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech and martech. Huge potential. Remote work is not for everyone.

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

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The country makes far too much money from oil, giving it one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and a large system of socialized support. Among the trends our survey respondents identified were e-commerce, blockchain and crypto, healthtech, energy, mobility and climate. Strong B2B, weak B2C, lots of SDG focus.

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