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• Clench your jaw to skip a track: That’s the magic of Wisear January 20, 2022
  By adding some electrodes and some electronics to your earbuds, Wisear can make your music experience a lot more hands-free than before. Bite down on your own teeth twice to pause a track, or three times to skip to the next tune — without making a noise, hand gesture or much visible movement at all, […]
• South Korea’s agtech startup Greenlabs raises $140M Series C to accelerate global expansion January 20, 2022
  Greenlabs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BlueRun Ventures, with participation from Skylake Incuvest and SK Square. The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings its total raised to $170 million to date, to expedite its global expansion, make acquisitions and […]
• Morocco’s Chari valued at $100M in bridge round as it looks to pilot BNPL services January 20, 2022
  Moroccan B2B e-commerce and retail startup Chari confirmed to TechCrunch that it has secured a bridge round at a $100 million valuation. The bridge round welcomed new investors Khwarizmi Ventures, Air Angels and Afri Mobility, the venture capital arm of AKWA Group. They join existing investors (Y Combinator, Rocket Internet, Global Founders Capital, Plug n […]
• Customer referral platform Mention Me raises $25M Series B led by Octopus Ventures January 20, 2022
  Mention Me, a platform to generate customer referrals, has raised a $25m Series B round, led by London’s Octopus Ventures. Eight Roads Ventures, the lead investor from the prior round, a $7 million Series A in a 2018, also participated.   The London-based startup helps businesses turn referrals into a channel for acquiring customers, while also […]
• Terra Quantum raises $60M for its Quantum-as-a-Service platform January 20, 2022
  Terra Quantum, a Zurich, Switzerland-based startup that aims to build a Quantum-as-a-Service platform (including, eventually, its own proprietary quantum hardware), today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series A round led by Lakestar, which also backed the company’s 2019 seed round. The additional investors in this round prefer to remain anonymous. According to […]