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With $9.3M in fresh funding, Zestworld plans a newsletter service for creator-owned comics Mar 22, 2022

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The comics world has seemingly been waiting for a digital revolution since the birth of the internet. Launched in 2007, ComiXology has come the closest to delivering such a play to the medium, so naturally, Amazon went and purchased the service and messed it up.

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Kenya-based agritech Apollo raises $40 million in Softbank-led round, joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CDC Mar 22, 2022

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Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture, which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land.

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Upstash snags $1.9M seed to build serverless data platform for Redis and Kafka Mar 21, 2022

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When it comes to data-intensive applications, setting up the infrastructure is expensive and time-consuming. You’re often paying for resources you aren’t using, even in the cloud.

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The Expert jumps into home goods e-commerce Mar 21, 2022

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The Expert, which provides video consultations with top designers, expands into e-commerce to become what co-founder Leo Seigal referred to as “Farfetch for home.”

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Hence secures $1.8M seed to grow its legal services sourcing technology Mar 18, 2022

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Hence Technologies, a Kigali and London based startup that uses data and AI technologies to match companies with external legal service providers is set to scale its precision matching engine after raising $1.8million in seed funding from various institutions and angel investors.

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SentinelOne scoops up Attivo Networks for $617M Mar 18, 2022

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Security companies typically start by focusing on one particular problem, but the biggest ones like Palo Alto Networks, FireEye and Symantec have shifted to a horizontal approach typically gaining functionality over time through acquisition.

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Arcol aims to do for building design what Figma did for UI design Mar 17, 2022

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The company is building web-based tools that can turn a 2D sketch into a 3D representation so that someone can design anything from a small building to a skyscraper.

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TruEra raises $35M for its AI analytics and monitoring platform Mar 17, 2022

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TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures.

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Plantish fishes for restaurant partners to try plant-based salmon filets Mar 16, 2022

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Plantish aims to get its salmon product into the first five restaurants by December 2023.

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Motto to launch a new electric bike subscription service in Paris Mar 16, 2022

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Meet Motto, a new French startup that plans to offer electric bikes in Paris.

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