HP and Cambridge join forces to support EdTech in Africa
In September, 25 influential African EdTech leaders will join a new fellowship program by Cambridge Partnership for Education and HP. The HP Cambridge EdTech Fellowship enhances participants’ skills in leading impactful EdTech transformations in education systems. The inaugural cohort of EdTech fellows will focus on leveraging digital transformation to improve
Read moreJirav, a startup developing financial planning software for businesses, raises $20M
After years of working for startups including Limeade and Zephyr Health, Martin Zych came to realize that companies were lacking an automated, cloud-based way to run their books and prop up their financial models. Most were stuck with legacy tools with siloed, clunky architectures that made it impossible — or
Read moreCollective, a financial management platform for freelancers, raises $50M
Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million in a funding round led by Gradient Ventures, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa and Better Tomorrow Ventures. The tranche brings Collective’s total raised to $82
Read moreBacked by Gradient, Fileread use LLMs to make legal discovery more efficient
Legal discovery is one of the most time-consuming parts of litigation and typically involves team of specialists combing through towers of documents. Fileread, a startup that uses large language learning models (LLMs) to create tools for faster and more efficient discovery, announced today it has raised $6 million in seed
Read moreSavvy, a platform to secure SaaS apps, launches out of stealth with $30M
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps are an essential part of how many companies do business. But when the number of apps grows beyond a certain threshold, it can be difficult to secure them. According to Statista, in 2022, organizations worldwide were using an average of about 130 SaaS apps, up from just
Read moreVerity brings in another $11M for its inventory drones
Seems were in the middle of drone delivery summer. A few weeks back, Gather AI snapped up competitor, Ware, following an executive shake and soon after, San Jose-based B Garage brought in a $20 million Series A. Today, Swiss startup Verity announced that it’s adding $11 million in funding. The
Read moreiOCO Explores A Move Towards Edge Computing Technology
The world is witnessing an exponential growth in the amount of data that is being created, captured, copied, and consumed. In 2022, the volume of data worldwide was estimated at around 97 zettabytes (ZB) and by 2025 this figure will reach 181 ZB. The growing number of Internet of Things
Read moreSchneider Electric enhances energy and automation training with NRF and UJ
Schneider Electric, the leading force in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, recently solidified its commitment to collaboration by signing Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) during the notable France Alumni Day. This event, held in partnership with
Read moreThe massive fanfic archive AO3 goes down in a wave of DDoS attacks
The group taking credit for the attack is threatening to keep the site down for weeks. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The popular fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own (AO3) is currently experiencing a wave of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have forced the website offline since Monday.
Read moreRaft, which services freight forwarders, closes $30M Series B led by Eight Roads VC
During the pandemic, the digitisation of the freight industry took off like a rocket, and stayed that way. To date, Forto has raised almost $600 million, Nuvocargo $75 million, Zencargo $66 million, and Freightify $14.5 million. All are associated with streamlining/digitising freight logistics in some way. This meant, of course
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