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YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play

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One of the earliest in the space, Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform TradeDepot , raised a combined $110 million in debt and equity. Akinin said the next stage of JABU’s wallet system would see merchants offering other services to consumers on top of their digitized cash.

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Bosch picks up Five.ai after the self-driving startup pivoted to B2B and then put itself up for sale

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Today, Bosch announced that it would be acquiring Five.ai , the autonomous driving startup that started with big ambitions to build and operate its own fleet of robotaxis but ultimately pivoted to focusing on technology development as a B2B play. ” It will be picking up not just IP from Five, but also some 140 employees in the U.K.

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India’s Zetwerk raises $120 million to scale its B2B marketplace for manufacturing parts

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Both of them studied at IIT Madras, went to the same exchange program in Singapore, and were colleagues at Kolkata-headquartered conglomerate ITC. Zetwerk’s operating system for manufacturing has digitized multiple supply chains end-to-end, ensuring on-time delivery and high quality standards.

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

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AARP Innovation Labs, the incubator program, highlights the many facets of aging in its CES’ virtual presentation with a roster of startups that were divided into five groups: community, clinic, wellness, financial services and housing. Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app.

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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

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However, a Kenyan B2B management startup founded by Yacob Berhane and Wossen Ayele wants to close the gap on three of the six factors — access to capital, knowledge, and talent. Joining the expert platform on Pariti, he began to review companies and provided feedback to other founders.

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Building a creator-focused OS

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In the startup’s view, a new generation of creative-focused tooling will bring the market to an era in which content management systems, or CMSs — say, Substack or WordPress — will not own the center of tooling. That’s Pico’s bet, and so it’s building what it considers to be an operating system for the creator market.

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Convoy raises $260M Series E to expand digital freight network products

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“We’re going to grow that program by adding a bunch more trailers and building a bunch of technology to optimize the routing and efficiency of these trailers and the whole pricing around it,” Lewis told TechCrunch. “It’s a pretty complicated system to build, which it doesn’t look like from the outside.”

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