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• Nautical Commerce sails away with new funding to bring marketplace tech to the masses June 29, 2022
  The company is boiling down the time it takes for businesses to create an e-commerce marketplace from two to three years to about 90 days.
• Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa June 29, 2022
  In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. It had taken him two years to finally make this dream a reality, and nothing — not even the pandemic — was […]
• Byju’s cuts over 600 jobs, pushes back payments for $1 billion acquisition June 29, 2022
  Byju’s, India’s most valuable startup, has eliminated over 600 jobs in recent days and pushed back on payments for a $1 billion acquisition it announced last year. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, valued at about $22 billion, has cut over 300 jobs at Toppr, an online learning startup it acquired last year for $150 million, and another […]
• Kukua, creators of “Super Sema,” raises $6 million, led by Alchimia and Tencent June 29, 2022
  Kukua, a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “Super Sema,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Tencent, which made its first African edtech bet in Nigeria’s uLesson last December, co-led this Series A round with Italy-based VC Alchimia. Other investors include […]
• FCC Commissioner writes to Apple and Google about removing TikTok June 29, 2022
  FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote to Apple and Google on Tuesday, requesting the companies to remove TikTok from their app stores for “its pattern of surreptitious data practices.” This comes after BuzzFeed News reported last week that TikTok’s staff in China had access to US-based users’ data up until January. “As you know TikTok is […]