Kenya’s BasiGo raises US$6.6M funding to begin commercial delivery of electric buses
Kenyan startup BasiGo has raised US$6.6 million in new seed funding to begin commercial delivery of locally manufactured electric buses and charging infrastructure.
Kenyan startup BasiGo has raised US$6.6 million in new seed funding to begin commercial delivery of locally manufactured electric buses and charging infrastructure.
Muncher, a chain of dark kitchens born in Colombia, announced the raise of a Series B for US$27 million. In announcing the round, the company communicated that it would seek to increase the 400 food businesses it operates, spread across 11 cities in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil, emphasizing the latter two countries. The Colombian foodtech is looking for strategic locations to deploy its modular kitchens and digital sales technology, including smart menus, customer data management, and visual integration of all sales channels and business intelligence.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has today launched a US$225 million venture capital platform to back early-stage startups in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan.
Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.