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Ventures Platform, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors, has raised another $64M

The Lagos-based firm and one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors is targeting a final close of $75 million for its second fund.
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Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health ...

The AI health companion unifies data from wearables and habits across sleep, fitness, and nutrition into personalized insights for users.
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The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in...

YC-backed The Prompting Company helps customers get recommendations from AI. It is also partnering with NVIDIA on "next-generation" search.
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20-year-old dropouts built AI notetaker Turbo AI and grew it to 5 m...

Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts, are behind Turbo AI, one of the fastest-growing AI notetaker tools.
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Spiro raises $100M, the largest-ever investment in Africa’s e-mobility

Dubai-headquartered Spiro is growing quickly with e-motorbikes and a battery-swapping network designed for Africa's needs.
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Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

1001, the startup founded by an ex-Scale operator, raises a $9 million seed round led by CIV, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital.
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YC alum Cercli, an AI-powered Rippling for MENA, raises oversubscri...

This YC HR startup grew its revenue 10x to close a $12M Series A just a year after raising $4M in seed, buoyed by its AI-native capabilities.
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How emerging Mubadala-backed AAF is winning VC deals in some of the...

In less than a decade AAF has backed startups with exits totaling $2 billion, it says and is doing so through an unusual VC model.
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This French VC went from posting on YouTube to raising a $12M fund ...

How French investor Gabriel Jarrosson grew from posting on YouTube to raising a fund that backs YC companies exclusively.
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Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix f...

While building AI for food supply chains may sound unglamorous, Burnt argues that decades of failed tech rollouts have left operators skeptical of “tech tourists” with no industry experience. 
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Y Combinator launches ‘Early Decision’ for students who want to gra...

YC has introduced a new application track, Early Decision, designed for students who want to start companies but don’t want to drop out.
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These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that...

How these founders, while in YC, pivoted from a shopping app to build Candle, a consumer app that helps couples and friends grow closer.
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Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI co-worker for fintech

Rulebase is building AI “coworkers” to review customer interaction, keep fintechs compliant, and take the grunt work out of back-office ops.
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Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI coworker for fintech

Rulebase is building AI “coworkers” to review customer interaction, keep fintechs compliant, and take the grunt work out of back-office ops.
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Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI coworker for fintech

Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI coworker for fintech
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These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to ...

Founded by a 20-year-old and two 22-year-olds, Human Behavior uses vision AI to give companies a real understanding of how people use their products.
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Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank ...

Khalid Ashmawy found it hard to send money home while studying in Europe. Now, he’s launched a startup to help other Egyptians with the same problem.
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Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar,...

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup, has raised $9 million to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand across Nigeria and Ghana.
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AI-powered fintech Alaan raises $48M, one of the largest Series A r...

When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate
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21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight

Delve gets $32 million from Insight Partners to scale its platform that automates regulatory compliance with AI agents.
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Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building th...

ZeroEntropy raises $4.2 million from YC, Initialized, to help models and agents retrieve relevant data quickly, accurately, and at scale.