Qotto, a solar kits provider with operations in Burkina Faso and Benin, has raised $8 million in a Series A equity-debt round led by the IBL group, a billion-dollar conglomerate headquartered in Mauritius with business interests in a number of sectors including energy, financial services, logistics, distribution, and engineering. The Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (FEI-OGEF), […]
Cleantech Qotto embarks on growth plan backed by $8M funding by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation. Looking to bridge the gap, booking platforms are emerging in the […]
BuuPass raises $1.3M to scale mobility sector digitization in Africa by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
At a time when venture capital funding is slowing in China, EV is one of the few sectors that are still keeping investors excited. Case in point, Zeekr, the luxury electric vehicle brand of China’s largest private carmaker Geely, announced Monday that investors have committed to investing $750 million in its Series A funding round. […]
Two-year-old Zeekr raises $750M at $13B valuation by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Safety advocacy group The Dawn Project is taking its campaign to ban Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system to the Super Bowl. The 30-second ad, which is broadcasting to millions of football fans in Washington D.C. and state capitals like Austin, Tallahassee, Albany, Atlanta and Sacramento, outlines several alleged critical safety defects of Tesla FSD, the […]
Tesla’s biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
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AI comes to expense reports by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch
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This Week in Apps: AI apps, Bing hits the Top Charts, Google and Mozilla test non-WebKit browsers by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. “San Francisco is back!” “It never left.” “It’s been long dead.” They’re all takes, none particularly good, yet all insinuating a degree of self-importance that […]
Cities, cycles and San Francisco’s ‘return’ by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
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AI is coming to your Bing and Google searches, Apple’s M2 chip and Super Bowl streaming by Henry Pickavet originally published on TechCrunch