Yext Answers allows businesses to provide a better search experience on their own websites — but as the name implies, the goal is really to
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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad
Each year, millions of students in India rush to get an admission in universities abroad. Often they don’t know which program they should focus on,
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Event networking app Grip raises $13M, as pandemic forces events to stay virtual
With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of
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Emerging as an Eastern powerhouse, Earlybird Digital East Fund launches new $242M fund
Earlybird Digital East Fund — a fund associated with Germany’s Earlybird VC, but operating separately — has launched a €200m ($242m) successor fund. The fund’s
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With over 1.3 million users, Nigerian-based fintech FairMoney wants to replicate growth in India
There are over 1.7 billion underbanked people globally, the majority of which are from emerging markets. For them, accessing loans can be difficult, which is
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TikTok’s China twin Douyin has 550 million search users, takes on Baidu
The advance of short videos is reshaping how information is created, disseminated and consumed online. Snappy 15-second videos aren’t just for entertainment. On Chinese short-video
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