Meet Wiki farmer, an agriculture-focused startup based in Athens with an interesting two-sided strategy. On the one hand, Wikifarmer is a source of knowledge with quality content translated into 16 languages to help farmers around the world. On the other hand, Wikifarmer is a B2B marketplace for buying and selling [...]
ESG plans and measures are increasingly expected from early-stage startups and are a non-negotiable requirement for later-stage companies preparing for an IPO. I am convinced that implementing ESG early can have a powerful positive effect on building your business. As an investor at Main Sequence, we have seen countless times [...]
This is an old story: a small e-commerce owner wants to build a great landing page for their business, but the available tools only get them so far and they don’t have the money to hire a developer. This is true Replo comes in, providing a low-code web platform and [...]
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release, it reached 100 million active usersmaking it the fastest growing consumer application ever launched. Users are attracted to the tool advanced options — and concerned about the potential to cause disruption in different sectors. A much less [...]
Fintech startup Atlantic money is rolling out its international money transfer service to more markets and more platforms. The company originally started in the UK with GBP as the base currency and nine different currencies on the receiver side. Since then, the company has expanded and is now live in [...]
The second annual edition of The State of Australian start-up funding report was released this week, showing that total investment was up about 30% last year to $7.4 billion. The analysis, prepared by Cut through enterprise and Folklore Ventures, carried much good news for Founders with pre-Seed and Seed investments [...]
Engineering analytics startup from Uber alums Hatica raised $3.7 million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge, they said Thursday. The San Francisco-based startup aims to increase developer productivity and well-being by helping them better understand how they spend their time with detailed technical analysis. [...]
Meat alternative start-up in Queensland Fable has raised US$8.5 million (A$12.3 million) as it ramps up its expansion in global markets. The round was led by Singapore VC 3 Ventures, supported by Better Bite Ventures, former YUM CEO Greg Creed, expatriate Australian ethicist and animal rights activist Professor Peter Singer, [...]
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The promise of alternative meat products has come under scrutiny lately articles in Bloomberg and the Washington Post the question of whether it will ever really be embraced by consumers. Other news such as Beyond Meat’s share price fall and mass layoffs at Impossible Foods have raised further questions about [...]