Africa’s startup ecosystem raised nearly $5 billion in venture capital (VC) funding last year, twice as much as in 2020. For Zekarias Amsalu, founder and CEO at investment advisory firm IBEX Frontier, that growing attractiveness can be attributed to an awakening in the international investor...
Today in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the latest PYMNTS report draws on the insights of Gerhard Bösch, the chairman of Ukraine’s PrivatBank, which has survived multiple branch bombings and a series of cyber attacks over the past six months. In other EMEA news,...
Swiss FoodTech company Selecta used the presentation of its first half (H1) 2022 results Wednesday (Aug. 3) to announce its new ESG targets, built around the four pillars of protecting the environment, creating healthy and sustainable products, maintaining a sustainable supply chain, and being a...
London-based smart grocery shopping assistant Lollipop is the latest example of the surge in the FoodTech industry after it secured almost $6.2 million in a seed funding round, according to an announcement Tuesday (May 10), Tech Funding News reported. Octopus Ventures led Lollipop’s fundraising effort,...
May 10, 2022
London-based smart grocery shopping assistant Lollipop is the latest example of the surge in the FoodTech industry after it secured almost $6.2 million in a seed funding round, according to an announcement Tuesday (May 10), Tech Funding News reported. Octopus Ventures led Lollipop’s fundraising effort, which also included participation from new investors Maki VC, Anterra […]
April 26, 2022
Food Rocket, the San Francisco company that promises grocery delivery in the Bay Area within 15 minutes, has secured $25 million in Series A funding that it will use to...
March 21, 2022
Food Rocket, the San Francisco-based company that promises grocery delivery in the Bay area within 15 minutes, announced its customers can help Ukrainians by donating directly to a meals charity...
