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Fiverr, the online gig marketplace for just about anything, today launched a white glove service for big-budget buyers. Called Project Partner, the service pairs customers with a project leader who manages their project end-to-end. (I struggled mightily, dear readers, to find a synonym for “project” here, but couldn’t. Please forgive me.) Shai-Lee Spigelman, the general […]

Businesses can now hire project managers through Fiverr by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Africa’s largest e-commerce site Jumia has amended its terms and conditions after the regional watchdog, the COMESA (Common Markets for Eastern and Southern Africa) Competition Commission, compelled the marketplace to review clauses and disclaimers it found to be misleading and false. The commission, which precludes restrictive business practices across the common market (21 countries) in […]

African watchdog forces Jumia to review its terms in push to protect consumers by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Bain Capital Ventures is doubling down on what works, literally. The venture firm, one of Bain’s 11 financial divisions, has raised $1.9 billion across two funds, one for seed to growth-stage startups that hovers around $1.4 billion, and one for later-stage opportunities that closed around a third of that, at $493 million. The capital total […]

For Bain Capital Ventures, ‘it is 2021 all over again’ (well, almost) by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Tokyo-based ispace said Monday that its Hakuto-R lunar lander is on track to reach the moon at the end of April. ispace launched the lander on board a Falcon 9 in December; since then, the spacecraft has traveled around 1,376 million kilometers, the farthest a privately funded, commercial operating spacecraft has ever journeyed into deep […]

Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch