Marc Lore’s ‘Wonder’ Pivots as Funding Dwindles for Costly Startups – PYMNTS.com

Marc Lore’s would-be disruptive restaurant tech startup is changing course amid a difficult market.The Jet.com co-founder’s food company Wonder, which was initially intended to be something of a blend of food delivery, food trucks and ghost kitchens, bringing mobile kitchen vans to consumers’ homes to offer fresh-made meals, is pivoting to a fixed-space model. Effectively, […]

Catalyst Fund announces $2 million investment into 10 startups … – Africa.com

NAIROBI, Kenya, 10 January 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Today pre-seed venture capital (VC) fund and accelerator Catalyst Fund announced a $2 million investment into 10 startups building solutions to improve the resilience of climate-vulnerable communities in Africa. This is the inaugural cohort of the new $30M VC fund of Catalyst Fund, anchored by financial sector development agency FSD Africa, aimed […]

Lessons For Launching An African Fintech In 2023 – Africa.com

By Justin Asher, Head of Strategy & Marketing at upnupAnyone looking to launch an African startup in 2023 must be sorely tempted to do so in the fintech space (provided they have the relevant background and expertise). After all, fintech has been on something of a streak on the continent. Most of the continent’s unicorns […]

John Deere will let farmers repair their own equipment

“This is an issue that has been a priority for us for several years and has taken a lot of work to get to this point,” AFBF President Vincent Duvall said. “And as you use equipment, we all know at some point in time, there’s going to be problems with it. And we did have […]

Carlyle buys majority stake in VLCC – VCCircle

By Debjyoti RoyGlobal private equity heavyweight Carlyle has picked up around 70% stake in beauty and personal care entity, VLCC Health Care Ltd for a value in the range of $275-300 million, a person familiar with the development said.Equity for this transaction will come from funds managed and advised by entities affiliated with Carlyle Asia […]

2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success

The momentum of the most active 12 months ever for venture investing did not carry over well into 2022, to say the least. As interest rates and inflation spiked, geopolitical challenges arose and the economy began trending downward, fundraising slowed dramatically throughout the year. But if 2022 was a year of paradigm-shifting dynamics, 2023 will […]

How to use qq AI Anime Feature? [New Method] – Anime Senpai

Everything Anime | MangaPublished on December 11th, 2022AI art is currently the new trend where different software lets you generate a piece of art even when you don’t have any knowledge of drawing. One of the recent additions to this long line of AI software is qq’s anime generator, also called “Different Dimension Me”.The feature […]