Shekel Mobility, a B2B marketplace for auto dealers in Africa, raises $7M led by Ventures Platform and MaC VC
The World Economic Forum states that Africa has an average annual demand for 2.4 million cars and 300,000 commercial vehicles. This demand is increasing because of a continent-wide increase in disposable income, strong middle-class growth and rapid urbanization. But while most cars meeting this demand are used, car ownership in
Read moreCruise spirals and LTA’s airship breaks cover in Silicon Valley
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Read moreBose QuietComfort Ultra earn their name and maybe even their $429 price tag
For years, any time someone asked what brand of headphones they should buy for a flight, the answer was a simple one syllable: Bose. The company’s QuietComfort line had long been synonymous with drowning out plane noise on long flights. But over the last several years, the question has become
Read moreMonitoring Your Python App with AppSignal
Learn how AppSignal makes application performance monitoring easy for your Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, frontend JavaScript, and Python projects. Continue reading Monitoring Your Python App with AppSignal on SitePoint.
Read moreKeep IT complexity in check with pragmatic composable commerce
Mariano Gomide de Faria Contributor Mariano Gomide de Faria has over 20 years of experience in digital commerce and is the founder and co-CEO of global enterprise digital commerce platform VTEX. Legacy digital commerce architectures are no longer sustainable in today’s commerce arena. With every component tightly integrated into a
Read moreHow Inversion Art is trying to become the Y Combinator of the arts world
What if a little bit of investment, a splash of mentoring and practical support, a slew of introductions, and a whole lot of belief could be used to help artists with their careers? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreThree human mistakes VCs often make, and how understanding them can help entrepreneurs fundraise better
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Read moreKlarna’s and Affirm’s very good week
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Read moreRobotics Q&A: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson
[A version of this Q&A first appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Over the next few weeks, TechCrunch will be running a series of Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. I’ve spoken with Matthew Johnson-Roberson several times since he was named the director of the
Read moreUS Census area hierarchy
Some kinds US Census geographic areas nest into a tidy hierarchy, but others do not. Here’s a brief overview of both. Hierarchical entities The orderly hierarchy is nation region division state county census tract block group census block. All cleanly nested. There are four regions: West, Midwest, Northeast, and South.
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