Seedstars Capital and Fondation Botnar have announced the launch of the Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures mandate, to invest US$20 million in early-stage, purpose-driven companies with the aim to improve the wellbeing of young people in low-and middle-income countries across the continent.
More hate speech is a feature, not a bug, on today’s Twitter. So Adobe, Microsoft, and others can’t be surprised to find their ads next to neo-Nazi propaganda. Do they care? Do their customers care? Would the company’s new CEO have taken the job if she cared? So many questions.
Yellow, an asset financier for solar energy and digital devices in Africa, has raised $14 million series B funding in a round led by Convergence Partners with participation from the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund, managed by Triple Jump, in addition to follow-on investment from Platform Investment Partners.
Customer engagement platform MessageGears will partner with content localization and translation platform Smartling to streamline email translation and localization for 450+ languages. The workflow is automated but actual translations are still done by (machine-assisted) humans.