January 2024

How to Simplify Daily Life as a Retiree

January 22, 2024
Your daily life is going to change as a retiree. It’s important that you remain adaptable during this transition if you’re going to remain healthy and thrive. One of the…

2024 Energy Watchlist Unveiled

January 22, 2024
Despite the shift toward more sustainable energy solutions, escalating demand for oil and gas coupled with supply reductions and geopolitical instability may trigger a significant surge in prices, leading to…

Chronosphere acquires Calyptia to extend its observability platform

January 22, 2024

Chronosphere, a startup that offers a cloud native observability platform, today announced that it has acquired Calyptia. While the company itself may not be a household name, Calyptia was founded by the creators of the Fluent Ecosystem, which includes the popular open-source observability projects like data collector Fluentd and metrics processor and forwarder Fluent Bit, […]

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Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs lands $80M, achieves unicorn status

January 22, 2024

There’s a lot of money in voice cloning. Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, today announced that it closed an $80 million Series B round co-led by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and entrepreneur Daniel Gross. The round, which also had […]

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Sony tells Zee it’s terminating the $10 billion India merger

January 22, 2024

Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a two-year acquisition deliberation that would have created a $10 billion media powerhouse in the South Asian market. Sony said in a statement that it has sent a termination letter to Zee after the Indian firm failed to meet the […]

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India’s Captain Fresh in talks to raise $50 million in new funding

January 22, 2024

Captain Fresh, a business-to-business harvest-to-retail marketplace for animal protein, is engaging with investors to raise up to $50 million in fresh funding, according to sources familiar with the matter. The startup is in advanced stages of deliberations to raise the capital from Nekkanti Sea Foods, SBI Investment, Evolvence, Tiger Global, and Prosus Ventures, the sources […]

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Terraform Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 

January 22, 2024

Singapore-based Terraform Labs (TFL), the company behind digital assets TerraUSD (UST) and Luna, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware following the collapse of its cryptocurrencies in 2022.  Terraform Labs confirmed that it had filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. as “a strategic step that will enable it to continue its operations and support […]

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Kenyan agtech Shamba Pride raises $3.7M to grow its merchant network

January 22, 2024

Shamba Pride has since 2016 worked to enhance last-mile distribution for farm inputs and tackle price exploitation and quality issues for farmers through its merchant network dubbed digishops. The agtech has, so far, built a network of merchants (agro-dealers) extending across 24 counties in Kenya, which represents just over half of the country. It now […]

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Flexport taps Shopify for cash, behind the wheel of the Kia EV9 and where Amazon wants to invest

January 21, 2024

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