Tazapay Closes $36m Series B to Scale Emerging Market Payments
Tazapay announced the close of a $36 million Series B extension led by Circle Ventures, bringing total Series B funding to $36 million. The round added new investors CMT Digital and Coinbase Ventures alongside existing backers. The capital will fund licensing expansion, accelerate go‑to‑market efforts across Asia, LATAM, the Middle East and the Americas, and develop AI‑driven payment infrastructure. Tazapay now serves over 1,000 enterprises in 30 countries and holds licences in Singapore, Canada, Australia and the United States.
Founder Mode vs Scaling CEO: The Right Mindset for Navigating Successful Growth
The article argues that moving from founder‑mode to a scaling‑CEO mindset is essential for sustainable growth. It outlines five critical shifts—identity, communication, talent, metrics, and trust—that CEOs must adopt to transition from personal heroics to team‑driven execution. Drawing on two...
Swedish Noru Attracts Nordic and Global Investors for AI Compliance Platform
Swedish startup Noru announced a €553.9K (~$600K) pre‑seed round led by Ampli Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz a16z Seed Fund, SSE Business Lab and several Nordic operators. The company’s AI‑native “agentic compliance” platform embeds regulatory processes directly into developer...
Allday Goods Raises £765K to Scale Its Cult, Recycled-Plastic Knife Brand
Allday Goods, an East London kitchenware brand that turns landfill-bound plastic into colourful knife handles, has secured £765,000 (approximately $970,000) in a funding round led by FIGR Ventures. The round also includes Anotherway Ventures, Machroes Holdings and several angels, adding...
The Top 7 Questions Advisor Coaches Use to Help You (and Why They Change Everything)
Top advisor coaches use a seven‑question framework to unlock growth, clarity, and accountability for financial advisors. The questions surface unexpected wins, eliminate low‑impact tasks, and challenge comfort zones while addressing bottlenecks, over‑delivery, and personal development. Each prompt includes actionable homework...
Textile Recycling Tech Startup Renasens Raises €10 Million
Swedish cleantech startup Renasens secured a €10 million (≈$11.5 million) seed round to expand its waterless, chemical‑free textile recycling platform across Europe. The company will use the capital to launch a pilot plant in Borås, Sweden, converting mixed textile waste into high‑quality...
Most UK Startups Aren’t in London. But Most Funding Still Is
A recent analysis shows that while 53% of the UK’s high‑growth startups are located outside London, they capture only 39% of venture funding. Entrepreneur Jenson Brook’s Britain’s Got Startups (BGS) platform is trying to bridge the gap by showcasing regional...
Med Ad Views Episode 06: From the Lab to Agency Leader, a Journey with Deborah Pan Dorner
Deborah Pan Dorner, a former MIT‑trained medicinal chemist, founded the healthcare communications agency Bond and Matter after a career in biotech research. The podcast episode explores how her scientific background shapes the agency’s data‑driven yet creative approach to pharma marketing....
How Two Gen Z Women Founders Are Making Wealth-Building Accessible
Eve Halimi and Anam Lakhani, former Wall Street interns, launched Alinea Invest in 2020. The fintech app aims to demystify investing for Gen Z, especially women, by offering an approachable, low‑threshold experience. They identified a gender‑specific white space in traditional wealth...
EnviroGold Outlines Rapid Deployment Pathway for NVIRO Tailings Reprocessing Plan
EnviroGold Global unveiled its Rapid Deployment Pathway (RDP), a structured framework that moves tailings reprocessing projects from initial evaluation to commercial deployment faster than traditional mining routes. The RDP combines staged assessments, pilot testing, and industrial demonstrations to de‑risk projects...
Oral Peptides Biotech Pinnacle Medicines Gets $89M From US, China Investors
Pinnacle Medicines, a two‑year‑old biotech focused on oral peptide therapeutics, secured $89 million from a mix of U.S. and Chinese investors. The financing will fund its platform that converts injectable peptides into pill form, building on the recent success of Novo...
New Research Reveals Latino Entrepreneurs Are Strengthening the U.S. Economy, Driving Business Growth and Job Creation
The 11th Annual State of Latino Entrepreneurship report shows Latino‑owned firms added 180,000 net new businesses and 976,000 jobs between 2017 and 2023, outpacing White‑owned firms. Revenue for these firms jumped 68% to $832 billion, underscoring their outsized role in U.S....
Renasens Raises €10m to Scale Textile Recycling Tech
Renasens, a Swedish start‑up, secured €10 million (approximately $10.8 million) in seed funding to scale its textile‑recycling technology that uses supercritical CO₂ to recover fibres from blended waste. The capital, led by Extantia with participation from Course Corrected and Norrsken Launcher, will...
Bulgarian INVENIO Partners Unveils New €75M Fund to Support SME Growth in Southeast Europe
Bulgarian private‑equity firm INVENIO Partners announced the first closing of its third fund, targeting a total of €75 million (≈ $81.5 million) to back high‑growth SMEs in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia. The fund will deploy equity and quasi‑equity investments of $3.3 million to $10.9 million...
Opendoor Hiring in Canada as It Looks to Make Toronto a “Major Hub”
Opendoor, the U.S. iBuying platform, announced plans to hire up to 100 employees in Toronto, renting a floor on King Street and Spadina Avenue for the new hub. CEO Kaz Nejatian, a former Shopify COO, emphasized Toronto’s deep talent pool...
One Man’s Trash, Another Man’s Revenue: Inside the Startup Cleaning up Nigeria
Nigeria produces more than 30 million tonnes of waste each year, overwhelming municipal services. Ecobarter, a tech‑enabled social enterprise founded in 2018, pays households and businesses for recyclable and organic waste, using a mobile app to schedule pickups, track collections, and...
Nigerian Crypto Startup Quidax Cuts Jobs Amid Push Into B2B Products
Nigerian crypto exchange Quidax announced a company‑wide layoff on March 2, terminating employees in sales, design and operations and offering one month’s severance. The cuts follow a February salary payout and are framed as performance‑related, though the exact numbers remain...
Why Traction Beats Perfection: Unveiling the Power of HerPlay
Karolina Pelc, a former casino dealer turned iGaming executive, founded the SaaS firm BeyondPlay and sold it to FanDuel in February 2024. She now mentors founders and has released her debut book, Her Play, which argues that luck is a...
Namma Yatri Parent Moving Tech Acquires Automicle to Enter Europe
Moving Tech Innovations, the Bengaluru‑based parent of Namma Yatri, has acquired Netherlands‑based Automicle Holding BV to launch its zero‑commission, community‑led mobility platform in Europe. The deal gives Moving Tech a foothold in European cities, where it plans to replicate its...
Uber Discontinues Shuttle in Delhi NCR, Shifts Focus to B2B Employee Transport Services
Uber announced the discontinuation of its Shuttle bus service in Delhi NCR, effective March 27, marking the exit of its bus‑based commute offering from India’s last remaining market. The move follows similar shutdowns in Mumbai and Hyderabad, which were attributed...
Pentathlon Ventures Closes Fund II at Rs 255 Cr
Pentathlon Ventures closed its second fund at Rs 255 crore (≈ $31 million), targeting 16–20 seed‑stage B2B tech startups. The fund expands its focus to enterprise AI transformation, fintech, healthtech, cybersecurity, logistics and manufacturing. Backed by family offices, HNIs and entrepreneurs across India, the...
How to Scale Consignment Management Beyond 100+ Consignors
Caroline Desmond explains that retail POS systems, designed for single‑owner inventory, break down when a store exceeds 100 consignors. As intake volumes rise, staff spend more time on manual ownership assignments, payout calculations, and answering basic seller queries. The article...
ELMED Life Sciences Raises $2.7 Mn in Series A From NABVENTURES
ELMED Life Sciences secured a $2.7 million Series A round led by NABVENTURES' AgriSURE Fund. The capital will fund new manufacturing capacity in Hyderabad, R&D acceleration, and broader distribution across Indian tier‑2/3 regions and overseas markets. ELMED develops probiotic and microbiome‑based products...
Can ChackTok Untangle Southeast Asia’s Fragmented Photo Booth Market?
The global photo‑booth market, valued at $584.6 million in 2024, is projected to reach $1.4 billion by 2032 with an 11.5% CAGR. Southeast Asia contributes roughly one‑fifth of that market but remains highly fragmented, relying on outdated tools. ChackTok offers a hardware‑agnostic...
This Ex-Google, Ex-Anka Founder Is Building Shopify but for Social Sellers in Francophone Africa
Yelen, a Côte d’Ivoire‑based startup founded by ex‑Google executive Ibrahima Sylla, launched in June 2025 as an all‑in‑one platform for African social sellers. The service lets merchants create storefronts, accept card and mobile‑money payments, and manage orders from WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook...
Reeve Benaron Shaping the Next Wave of Technology Companies
Reeve Benaron, co‑founder and co‑CEO of Intrivo Diagnostics and chairman of digital‑media firm AUDIENCEX, has built businesses at the nexus of technology, data and real‑world impact. He pioneered AUDIENCEX’s data‑driven advertising platform in 2012 and later launched Intrivo’s Diagnostics‑as‑a‑Service model,...
AI Wearables Are Here To Stay; Can NeoSapien Make The Most Of This Wave?
Bengaluru‑based NeoSapien launched Neo 1, a thumb‑size AI wearable that records conversations, creates transcripts and reminders, and retails for roughly $120. The startup recently closed a $2 million seed round backed by Merak Ventures and several angel investors, and claims to be...
Insurtech Startup Plum Nets ₹193 Cr To Expand Employee Health Benefits Platform
Insurtech startup Plum announced a $20.6 million Series B round, raising ₹193 crore led by Peak XV Ventures with participation from Tanglin and GMO Venture Partners. The funding will finance talent acquisition, AI‑driven claims processing, enterprise‑grade security, and deeper HR‑payroll integrations. Plum also plans...
Meet Keith – the AI-First Law Firm Looking to Transform Conveyancing
AI‑first law firm Keith has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to launch a fully automated conveyancing platform this summer. The firm will use a network of 38 specialized AI agents to handle up to 80% of the transaction workflow, aiming...
Nikolay Grebentsov: Entrepreneur Turning Real-World Needs Into Innovation
Nikolay Grebentsov, president of Nikovit Inc., is scaling a clean‑energy venture that sells affordable heat‑pump and mini‑split systems through its EZCOOL brand. Recent accolades—including the Best Entrepreneur in HVAC award and a Small Business Breakthrough Award—coincide with a push to...
Singapore: Enhanced Facilities Empower Start-Up Ecosystem
JTC Corporation announced major upgrades to LaunchPad @ One‑North, including the new Meeting Point co‑working and event space. The hub now partners with NUS Enterprise, INSEAD and 19 international startup nodes, giving Singaporean startups direct access to markets in Paris,...
Verse8 Raises $5M for AI-Driven Game Creation Platform
Verse8, an AI-native platform that lets creators instantly turn ideas into playable games, announced a $5 million seed round. Since its stealth launch in July, the service has attracted more than 3.5 million monthly active users, supported by over 5,000 active creators...
Navy’s Turning Small ‘Bets’ Into Enterprise Services
The Navy’s Program Executive Office for Digital is adopting a lean‑startup mindset, using small OTA‑backed bets to prototype emerging technologies. Early initiatives such as Naval Identity Services and the Enterprise Service Desk have transitioned from pilots to full enterprise services,...
Amateur Builds Tax Prep Software with AI
A journalist with no coding background used Anthropic's Claude to create Telos Tax, an AI‑generated, free tax‑preparation app that handles both federal and state returns. The "vibe coding" approach produced roughly 234,000 lines of code in a few weeks, a...
Time Is Right for New, Young Cattle Producers
Dan Schaefer of Schaefer Beef Consulting says the convergence of an aging cattle‑producer base, robust consumer demand for beef, and underutilized land makes now an optimal moment for young entrepreneurs to launch beef operations. He highlights that leasing arrangements—particularly cost‑sharing...
Amazon’s Unprecedented Gamble on AI Redemption Might Just Work
Amazon is abandoning its traditionally frugal reputation to embark on an unprecedented AI spending spree, dubbed a “Capexapalooza” by JPMorgan Chase. The e‑commerce giant is allocating billions of dollars to build custom AI chips, expand data‑center capacity, and integrate generative...
A New App Wants to Cure Loneliness by Getting People Off Their Phones and Into the Same Room
Friending, a Raleigh‑based startup, launched a social app that nudges users toward in‑person meetings by restricting chat and confirming proximity via phone detection. The platform verifies identities through a third‑party service, aiming to combat the loneliness epidemic highlighted by the...
PDW Raises Over $110M to Expand Military Drone Production
Performance Drone Works (PDW) announced a Series B round that raised over $110 million, led by Ondas and joined by strategic investors such as Hood River, Cedar Pine, Hanwha’s venture fund and Booz Allen Hamilton. The capital will fund a hiring...
Private Stablecoin Platform Payy Network Raises $6 Million Seed Round
Payy Network announced a $6 million seed round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto. The private‑by‑default stablecoin platform uses zero‑knowledge proofs to conceal transaction details, addressing transparency concerns that deter enterprise adoption. Payy’s services, including...
Wealthsimple Gets Regulatory Approval to Enter Prediction Markets
Wealthsimple, the Toronto‑based fintech valued at roughly $10 billion, secured initial approval from the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) to launch prediction‑market contracts linked to economic indicators, financial markets and climate trends. The clearance permits binary “yes‑or‑no” forecast contracts, though the...
Important Lessons From Running a Successful Video Game Crowdfunding Campaign
At GDC Festival of Gaming 2026, Playable Worlds’ vice‑president Niina Fujioka detailed how their Kickstarter campaign for the MMORPG *Stars Reach* exceeded its goal by over four times. The success stemmed from a story‑focused trailer, a modest funding target, and...
SBI, Sony Back Startale’s $63 Million Push to Expand Japan’s Tokenized Finance Stack
Startale Group closed a $63 million Series A round, secured by SBI Group ($50 million) and Sony Innovation Fund ($13 million). The Singapore‑based firm builds blockchain infrastructure, including the Strium tokenized‑securities ledger, JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, and a consumer‑facing app. The capital will be...
M1X Global Raises $3m to Scale On-Chain Sovereign Finance
M1X Global, a public‑private partnership with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, announced the public launch of its on‑chain sovereign finance platform and closed an oversubscribed $3 million angel round. The funding, sourced from prominent crypto‑finance figures and the Stellar Development...
Swiss Orbital Tug Startup Pave Space Raises $40 Million
Swiss startup Pave Space announced a $40 million private funding round to develop a reusable orbital tug and conduct a demonstration flight. The round was led by Visionaries Club and Creandum, with participation from several European investors. Originating as a student‑led...
Y Combinator-Backed Mandel AI Raises $3.9M to Automate Global Supply Chains
Mandel AI, a Y Combinator‑backed startup, secured $3.9 million in seed funding to launch an AI‑driven supply‑chain coordinator. The platform sits atop existing email and ERP systems, using specialized agents to read supplier messages, reconcile purchase orders and invoices, and act...
Meet the Canadian E-Bike Maker Who Is Redefining the Factory Floor
Toronto‑based Beachman Motor Co. assembles all‑electric, retro‑styled motorcycles using mostly Chinese‑made components, employing about a dozen staff in a scaled‑down plant. The flagship Beachman ’64 retails for roughly $4,400 USD and targets urban commuters seeking a simple, design‑forward ride. After a...