Smiler comes up with a different kind of gig economy for event and venue photographers

Traditional venue photography providers like DEI Global, MagicMemories, Picsolve and Sharingbox are reliant on fixed equipment, permanent staffing costs, and on-site printed products. So Amsterdam, Netherlands-based Smiler came up... Read more »

Odilo raises $64M as its white-label e-learning library passes 8,500 customers and 170M users

E-learning — whether it’s in the form of a supplement to physical materials or live lessons; or the primary or even only medium being used — is now an... Read more »

Indian fintech Slice tops $1.5 billion valuation in new funding to scale UPI payments

Slice, a fintech startup that is bringing credit card features to millions of Indians, has raised $50 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its... Read more »

Egyptian q-commerce platform Appetito bags Lamma for over $10M

Appetito, the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma, an identical... Read more »

Rimac raises more than $500M from Porsche, Softbank and Goldman Sachs

Rimac Group said Tuesday it has raised 500 million euro ($536 million), funds that will help the Croatian startup expand beyond its electric hypercar roots and grow into a... Read more »

France’s Alven VC launches 6th fund with a hard cap of €350M

With a heritage that goes back to the fabled times of 2000 A.D. (since when it has backed 160 European teams) Paris-based early stage fund Alven, has something of... Read more »

Upway lands $25 million to sell more refurbished electric bikes

French startup Upway has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Exor Seeds and Sequoia Capital. The company sells second-hand electric bikes that have been refurbished and... Read more »

South Africa’s Talk360 raises $4M to build single payment platform for Africa

Many businesses looking to set up pan-African operations are often met with the challenge of establishing payment services that are appropriate for each country they go to. Most of... Read more »

The death knell for SPACs?

It’s a tough day for special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, which had already fallen out of favor after roughly 18 months in the limelight. Senator Elizabeth Warren is... Read more »

This book made me fall in love with electronics all over again

It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for photography — I’ve been known to take a photo or two in my time — and I have a hell of... Read more »
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