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Captain Fresh, a business-to-business harvest-to-retail marketplace for animal protein, is engaging with investors to raise up to $50 million in fresh funding, according to sources familiar with the matter. The startup is in advanced stages of deliberations to raise the capital from Nekkanti Sea F

Shamba Pride has since 2016 worked to enhance last-mile distribution for farm inputs and tackle price exploitation and quality issues for farmers through its merchant network dubbed digishops. The agtech has, so far, built a network of 2,700 merchants (agro-dealers) extending across 24 counties in

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can't miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. The startup train just keeps on rumblin' down the tracks, and I'm back with a smattering of “what happened in the world of s

This week, we’re taking a look at a pitch deck from Rypplzz (pronounced “ripples”), a spatial technology startup that recently raised $3 million. Rypplzz uses radio waves to provide location tracking since they are supposedly more precise and easier to work with than GPS. Venues l

Media streamer Plex’s long-delayed plans to launch a marketplace for TV and movie rentals are finally being realized after multiple false starts. The media startup originally announced its plan to expand its streaming service to include rentals just ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic, which impac

There’s a new, troubling trend for entrepreneurs of color. Investment firms and funding organizations are being struck with complaints, and in some cases, federal lawsuits, over the constitutionality of financially supporting BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and other people of color) entrepreneurs.

Myrealtrip is the latest travel tech company to ride a growing post-pandemic tourism industry. The Seoul-based startup said today it has raised $56.7 million (75.6 billion KRW) in a Series F equity round of funding to accelerate its business and product innovation and ramp up its hiring. Global tou

Anyone mad enough to launch a new product already knows the stats surrounding product failure. According to Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, over 30,000 new products are introduced yearly, and 95% fail. However, even the 5% don’t always hit their mark, with many not doin

At a time when many startups are struggling to raise funding or are raising but at lower valuations, it's notable when companies raise at flat or higher valuations. Especially when their last raise took place in 2021 — a time when capital was much easier to come by and valuations were climbin

"text-align: center;">Aileen Lee is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. She partners at the earliest stages with enterprise and consumer-oriented startup teams to build products customers love, and to help teams build aspirational companies. She has over two decades of experience starting at seed stage

Founded in 2007 to help IP and R&D professionals do their jobs more efficiently, Singapore-based Patsnap‘s first product was a global patent search database. Now it's building out its suite of AI products with the launch of its AI assistant CoPilot. CoPilot lets users search patent an

Agriculture is poised to be one of the next great robotics categories. Everyone needs to eat, and much of what we eat in this part of the world comes from large farms. Farm work is tough on the body and requires long hours in sometimes extreme environments. It can also be difficult to hire and reta

European insurtech company Getsafe has acquired deineStudienfinanzierung, an aptly named German digital platform for student loans that was showcased on the local version of “Shark Tank” in 2019. This is Getsafe’s second acquisition in a few months, after it nabbed the German portfolio of