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Egyptian social e-commerce platform Taager raises $6.4M led by 4DX Ventures

 The global social market is rapidly growing. With over 1.25 million online social sellers in Egypt alone, the Egyptian social e-commerce market is forecast to be worth more than $14.8 billion by 2024. One of its players, Taager, is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics. Today, it is announcing that it has secured $6.4 million in seed funding.  The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. It also included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem. This is Breyer Capital’s first investment in the MENA region, and the round brings Taager’s total investment to more than $7 million since launching in December 2019. https://www.eclipse-gaming.de/forum/showthread.php?pid=8579&tid=6126 http://forum.naronanews.com/showthread.php?tid=79474 https://forum.viewcomiconline.com/showthread.php?tid=41 http://amantespastoraleman.com/for...

Kenya’s AIfluence closes $1M for its AI-powered influencer marketing platform

 Influencer marketing is one of the fastest-growing and one of the most impactful media channels today. There’s a growing ad-blocking movement and key demographics are spending less time in front of TVs. Marketers have now realized that their customers trust the recommendations of people they relate with. However, despite this being an impactful channel, brand teams globally face a major dilemma: determining the ROI of influencer marketing campaigns. AIfluence is a two-year-old startup with an AI-driven influencer marketing approach to measuring these campaigns. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $1 million in seed investment led by Dubai-based EQ2 Ventures. Other investors include Antler East Africa, Oui Capital, ArabyAds, and an unnamed European family office. https://saldogratispoker.com/showthread.php?tid=363496 http://istari-zone.net/forums/showthread.php?&pid=12935&tid=1463 http://amantespastoraleman.com/foro/showthread.php?tid=5303 http://theauctionb...

Daily Crunch: Citing data storage violations, India blocks Mastercard from onboarding new customers

 Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 14, 2021. We have a jam-packed newsletter for you today, so we’re getting something out of the way up top. We’ve covered India’s technology regulatory market often in recent weeks. Why? Because the Indian startup scene is crazy busy. How India’s government handles the boom is going to be critical for a host of founders, investors and workers. In that vein, the latest chapter in the story involves Mastercard, which just got blocked from onboarding new users. Why? Per our reporting, “noncompliance with local data storage rules.” Data rules, you will recall, are a big part of the changing regulatory world for Chinese startups as well. Something to keep an eye on! — Alex http://istari-zone.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=12528&tid=1339 https://saldogratispoker.com/showthread.php?tid=914 http://amantespastoraleman.com/foro/showthread.php?tid=9840 http://forum.naronanews.com/showthread.php?tid=103962 http://www.ttl.co-re.de/forum/showthread.p...

NHTSA urges some Chevy Bolt owners to park their car away from home, citing fire risk

Chevrolet Bolts are back in the news — this time for another consumer alert issued by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, less than a year after the agency issued a recall for a similar issue. NHTSA is recommending owners of Model Year 2017-2019 park their Bolts away from homes due to the risk of fire. Those are the same vehicles that were recalled in November 2020, due to the possibility of fire from the battery pack underneath the backseat’s cushion. The recall affected 50,932 2017-2019 Chevy Bolt vehicles. http://wastedwarlocks.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=51287 https://forum.viewcomiconline.com/showthread.php?tid=2378 http://beta.cqpolska.pl/showthread.php?tid=70211 https://www.myotoniacongenita.info/forum/showthread.php?tid=14851 http://ttl.co-re.de/forum/showthread.php?tid=111746 https://www.grungemessageboards.com/showthread.php?tid=20227 http://www.istari-zone.net/forums/showthread.php?pid=12158&tid=1268 http://forum.naronanews.com/showthread.php?tid=79...

YC-backed Deskimo, an on-demand coworking space app, launches in Singapore and Hong Kong

 Part of Y Combinator’s current batch, Deskimo wants to make finding coworking spaces easier. Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps. Instead, its Starbucks, since Deskimo caters to people who usually work from home, but occasionally need a place nearby where they can get away from distractions or take meetings. Deskimo partners with employers and charges them by the minutes their workers spend at space, instead of a monthly or yearly fee. Deskimo was launched in February by Raphael Cohen, Rocket Internet’s former head of Asia, and Christian Mischler, who co-founded Foodpanda and served as its global chief operating officer. After Rocket Internet, the two started HotelQuickly, an on-demand booking app they sold in 2017. https://saldogratispoker.com/showth...

Europe’s DN Capital launches its new $350M fund after a knock-out year for its portfolio

 DN Capital, one of Europe’s most active VCs has launched its latest $350 million (£220m, €300m) fund off the back of a pretty stand-out year when the firm saw four of its portfolio companies hit billion-dollar-plus valuations. DN’s ‘Fund V’ will invest across Europe, the UK and the US, but with strongly European LPs, DN has garnered a reputation for digging up some of continental Europe’s hottest startups from, North, Western, Central, and Eastern Europe. Led by industry veterans Nenad Marovac (based in Europe) and Steve Schlenker (based Stateside), DN led the Series A round in Auto1, which IPO’d on the German Stock Exchange earlier this year at a $10 billion valuation and over 150x their entry price per share. https://saldogratispoker.com/showthread.php?tid=332546 http://amantespastoraleman.com/foro/showthread.php?tid=10235 http://forum.naronanews.com/showthread.php?tid=15511 https://www.forumdime.com/Thread-jackson-resume https://www.myotoniacongenita.info/forum/showthread.php?t...

Germany’s VC industry is ready to take off, but bureaucrats need to release the handbrake

 The narrative suggests that Germany is lagging behind its European neighbors when it comes to building a globally competitive venture capital market. But I think that the next five years will be huge for the German venture capital sector, and that the signs for the future are very positive. German startups raised €6.4 billion in 2020. That’s more than France, which came in at €5.7 billion. Another upside is that there is a healthy blend of local and international investment in the early-stage market. German funds dominate investments in German startups at the seed and Series A stages. As companies grow, overseas investment plays a huge part — half of the deals exceeding $50 million funding rounds are led entirely by foreign investors, while only 5% are run by German investors and 45% see a mix of foreign and domestic investors at the cap table. https://www.grungemessageboards.com/showthread.php?tid=43856 http://beta.cqpolska.pl/showthread.php?pid=189824&tid=44419#pid189824 htt...