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Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges TechCrunch Early Stage is coming around the corner fast, April 1 and 2. You still have a chance to pitch your startup on the famous TC stage to an amazing lineup of judges. On April 2, TechCrunch will feature 10 top startups across the globe at the Early Stage Pitch-Off. Companies will garner the attention of press and investors worldwide. Founders — apply here by March 9. The pitch-off will consist of a five-minute presentation followed by a Q&A wi...

Menker, an ex-Wall Street trader, has turned her attention to "two of the biggest challenges we face as humanity."

February 11th, 2021 in Featured. Closed Last month The New York Times highlighted Sara Menkers company Gro Intelligence as a start-up raising money "in a bid to create business benchmarks for climate risk." This week Yahoo Finance is featuring the Ethiopian-born former Wall Street commodities trader as part of its Influencers series discussing "the challenges of food security, how Covid exposed the world’s agriculture system, and why [Sara] says we may be a few years away f...

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed as many as 124 million people worldwide into extreme poverty and spiked food prices, prompting a hunger crisis and drawing scrutiny to the food supply chain. The World Food Program, a hunger relief effort carried out by the United Nations, said last month that the pandemic has shown vulnerability in the world’s food system that could lead to “mass famine.” In a new interview, Sara Menker — a former Morgan Stanley...

The climate risk analysis platform’s $85m Series B comes at a time when US businesses are trying to stay ahead of new climate regulation.

Daniel Adeyemi Share this article We’re into the new year and already getting a sense that 2021 could be different from 2020. Last year saw sectors like edtech and biotech rise to prominence, while e-commerce benefited from the spike in online shopping due to the pandemic. This year we’re asking what to expect from this year. I spoke to my team members at TechCabal to get a sense of some of the African tech trends they are seeing.  FitnessTech – Koromone Koroye I first discovered the Nik...

AlleyWatch Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New York during January 2021.  I have included some additional information such as industry, description, round type, total equity funding raised to further the analysis for the state of venture capital in NYC The AlleyWatch audience is driving progress and innovation on a global scale. With its regional media properties, AlleyWatch serves as the highway for technology an...

  According to the World Bank, male-owned companies receive six times more capital on average than female-owned firms. The funding gap between male and female entrepreneurs in Africa is put at about $42 billion by the Africa Development Bank.   In 2019, 98 African startups raised at least $1 million from investors but only 13 of those startups were founded by women. Since 2010, only 10% of West African startups founded by women have raised up to $1 million.  One explanation for these numbers...

Agriculture Analytics Market projected to reach $1.4 billion by 2025, with a remarkable CAGR of 12.2%

Nairobi analytics firm Gro raises Sh9.2bn in venture funding Friday January 15 2021 Summary Founded in 2004 in Kenya and with offices in New York, Gro utilises artificial intelligence to model complex data of the inter-relationships between food, climate, trade, agriculture, and macroeconomic conditions. The firm says the data collected provides decision-making tools, solutions, and analytics to the food, agriculture, and climate economies. According to Gro, the funding will be utilised to acce...