Crypto exchange OKX ceases services in India

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

Crypto exchange OKX is ceasing services for users in India, it said in an email to customers Thursday, advising them to withdraw their funds by April-end. The move follows Apple and Google pulling the eponymous app of the OKX crypto exchange in the country after an Indian government agency said many such platforms were operating […]
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Frontline Ventures raises $200M to help B2B companies in Europe and US straddle the Atlantic

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

The sum will be split roughly evenly between two funds, Frontline Growth and Frontline Seed. The seed fund will favor European ventures, while the growth fund is focused on American ones.
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Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

Aravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI search startup.

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BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse X Has a Car-Wide Screen and a ‘Joy’ Brain

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

The German automaker exposes what the next generation of BMW EVs will look like inside and out—including better batteries, a fancy new central computer, and a massive new windscreen display.

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Silence is an early stage climate tech VC fund with $35 million

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

Silence wants to shake things up when it comes to climate tech investment. This new angel-style VC firm has already raised $35 million and plans to make dozens of small investments in climate startups to help them apply the tech startup playbook. The Silence team is led by Borja Moreno de los Rios who acts […]
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Send Your ROI Skyrocketing for Just $40 with Taskomat

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

When you add automated workflow to master-level data analysis, the result is a more precise understanding of how time invested will generate revenue.

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Nexus’ star partner Sameer Brij Verma set to leave and launch own fund

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

Sameer Brij Verma, a high-profile investor at the Indian venture firm Nexus, will be leaving the fund later this year, he confirmed to TechCrunch. Verma plans to launch his own venture firm, with the inaugural fund expected to have a corpus of at least $150 million, a source familiar with the matter said. The move comes […]
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Pelikan Mobility is building a software-enabled commercial EV leasing solution

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

Chances are you may have noticed that many commercial vehicles are now electric vehicles — think about delivery vans, telecom minivans, utility maintenance trucks, etc. But there are still many diesel-powered commercial vehicles because it’s simply too expensive and too complicated to switch to an all electric vehicle fleet overnight. That’s why Pelikan Mobility has been […]
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Farm to Feed is cutting food loss and creating data platform to better farm outcomes

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

Globally, a third of the food produced is lost or wasted, and in Kenya, that figure stands at between 20% to 40%. For Kenya, unlike the developed world, food loss, not waste, is the greater problem, with small-scale farmers, who account for 75% of the total agricultural output in the country, facing a myriad of […]
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X launches top up packs for its developer API

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Techme101

Social network X (formerly Twitter) launched new top-up packs for its developer API program on Tuesday. These paid upgrades will allow developers to fetch roughly 10,000 posts for $100 if they hit their existing tier’s limit midway through the month. Last year, Elon Musk curtailed free API access and released new paid tiers with the […]
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