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VentureburnThe generative video landscape just experienced a seismic shift. A massive financial bombshell dropped, sending shockwaves through global tech hubs and venture capital firms alike. Kling AI raises $2.98 billion.
VentureburnRendezvous Robotics Raises $20 Million in Seed Funding Rendezvous Robotics has raised $20 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The financing was led by MaC Venture Capital and Toyota Ventures.
TechCentralMetacom founder Réan van Niekerk on 25 years of building routers without any venture capital.
BizcommunityApplications are open for a new programme aimed at preparing 20 Western Cape technology startups for international expansion and venture capital investment, with five businesses to receive fully funded places at GITEX Africa in Morocco.
VentureburnWhile Nigeria retained the title of Africa’s most populous nation, the likes of Kenya and Egypt soaked up the venture capital over the last three years. But the narrative has
VentureburnNauta Secures €60M First Close for Fund VI Nauta Capital has raised €60 million in the first close of its sixth venture capital fund. The €60m fund was announced on
VentureburnUK embodied-AI startup Extend Robotics has closed a £2.6 million early-stage funding round to scale its Result-as-a-Service model across European industrial sectors. Skyworks Venture Capital Fund led the round, with
VentureburnBritish aerospace startup Certo Aerospace has secured £5 million in an early venture capital round to accelerate the development of its Capstone autonomous heavy-lift aircraft. The funding arrives after three
Disrupt AfricaEIB Global has made a US$30 million equity investment in Seedstars Africa Ventures I, a venture capital fund aimed at providing risk capital to innovative businesses and startups across Africa. Seedstars Africa Ventures I was created by Maxime Bouan, Tamim El Zein and Bruce Nsereko Lule, in…
Disrupt AfricaYou’re a founder looking for venture capital in Africa – how do you do it? Is it worth the cold email, filling out the contact form on the VC’s homepage, or is it more about who you know, or whether you’ve been profiled by Disrupt Africa? Well, it’s a bit of all of that, apparently.…
Disrupt AfricaVenture capital funding has declined significantly across the world in 2023, and though there were initial hopes that the nascency of the African tech ecosystem might mean it avoided too much damage, the growing size of the continent’s “startup graveyard” suggests that is not the case. Venture…
Disrupt AfricaThe South Africa-based E4E Africa, an entrepreneur-driven venture capital fund, has announced the first close of its US$30 million E4E Africa Fund II. Launched in July 2020 with backing from the SA SME Fund, E4E Africa made 11 investments from its first fund, in startups such as insurtech…