Month: April 2021
Charles raises €6.4M seed to bring ‘conversational commerce’ to WhatsApp
Charles, a Berlin-based startup that offers a “conversational-commerce” SaaS for businesses that want to sell on WhatsApp and other chat apps, has raised €6.4 million in funding. Led by Accel and HV Capital, the seed funding will be used by
Read MoreNorth Korea Will Skip Tokyo Olympics, Citing Covid-19 Fears
Kim Jong Un’s regime becomes the first country to bow out of the Summer Olympics starting in July.
Read MoreSoldiers shoot, kill Palestinian man, injure wife; IDF: They tried to ram troops
Palestinian media identified the man as Osama Mahmoud Mansour, 42; IDF says they attempted to commit a car-ramming attack, but wife says they left home to run an errand
Read MoreBaylor Defeats Gonzaga To Win Its 1st Men’s NCAA Basketball Championship
The Gonzaga Bulldogs went into the championship game undefeated, but after the final buzzer, it was the Baylor Bears who were victorious. Baylor beat Gonzaga 86-70. (Image credit: Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
Read MoreEgyptian VC firm Sawari Ventures finally closes $71M fund for North African startups
Egyptian-based VC firm Sawari Ventures has closed its $71 million fund for North Africa’s rapidly growing startup ecosystem. The firm first announced its fund in 2018, when it closed an initial $35 million (which subsequently increased to $41 million) in
Read MoreReleased Arab Israeli who killed IDF soldier gets hero’s welcome in home town
Rushdi Hamdan Abu Mukh, imprisoned for 35 years, is paraded in streets of Baqa al-Gharbiyye; family of victim Moshe Tamam demand his citizenship be revoked
Read MoreTaiwan-based MLOps startup InfuseAI raises $4.3M Series A led by Wistron Corporation
AI models not only take time to build and train, but also to deploy in an organization’s workflow. That’s where MLOps (machine learning operations) companies come in, helping clients scale their AI technology. InfuseAI, a MLOps startup based in Taiwan,
Read MoreSingapore-based career platform Glints gets $22.5M in Series C funding
Glints, the Singapore-based career platform, announced today it has raised $22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources management firm PERSOL Holdings. The new capital will be used on Glints’ expansion in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan
Read MoreKKR closes $15 billion fund targeting consumption and urbanization in Asia
KKR has just closed $15 billion for its Asia-focused private equity fund, exceeding its original target size after receiving “strong support” from new and existing global investors, including those in the Asia Pacific region. The new close came nearly four
Read MoreNorth Korea Says It Won’t Participate in the Tokyo Olympics Because of COVID-19
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said it will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic. A website run by the North’s sports ministry said the decision was made during a national Olympic Committee meeting on
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