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The 2026 KPMG Female Founders in Africa Competition is excited to invite applications from female entrepreneurs across the continent.

EV charging startup Statiq has secured $18 million (about Rs 163.2 crore) in a mix of equity and debt funding round led by Tenacity Ventures

Heron Power, founded by former Tesla executive Drew Baglino, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $140 million to build gigawatts’ worth of solid-state transformers

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk as part of a larger $1 billion round from backers.

Kana will use the fresh cash to expand hiring across engineering, product, and go-to-market. Mayfield managing partner Navin Chaddha is joining the company’s board.

Venture capitalists are doubling down on Render, a startup offering easy-to-use cloud infrastructure. On Tuesday it said it has raised $100 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the decades after the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for a new fund— the largest fund it has ever raised and nearly double the size of its last fund.

Climactic launches hybrid fund to get startups through the ‘valley of death’

SpendRule is a technology that ensures hospitals pay only what was negotiated in their contracts. It is integrated with and operates on top of a hospital system’s current enterprise resource

Mesh Optical Technologies, a Los Angeles startup that announced a $50 million Series A led by Thrive Capital on Tuesday.

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, has appointed his daughters to senior leadership positions within the Dangote Group,