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Kenya’s fintech Kwara lands $4 Million in seed round from Breega, SoftBank to build neobank for credit unions

TechCrunch

The startup’s goal is to serve 1 billion people by 2030. The startup recently partnered with Lami Technologies, a Kenyan-based digital insurance company, to make accessible a wide range of insurance products including health, property, business and life covers on the app.

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Founders Factory Africa partners with Small Foundation to invest in 18 agritech startups

TechCrunch

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. Founders Factory Africa and Netcare to fund 35 health-tech startups. billion raised by African startups.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

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Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So that’s our job.” France and Germany. .

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

Meanwhile, the individual costs to our own health of what we eat will add up to 1.3 trillion USD by 2030. In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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What if all startup accelerators promote circularity?

Impact Hub

What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? Circularity-focused incubation and acceleration programs already exist, but there are two problems: There aren’t enough of them to transform the private sector as a whole. of the global economy is circular.

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Plastic: The Problem And Its Impact

Impact Hub

In airbags, incubators, helmets, or simply by delivering clean drinking water plastics save lives daily. Is there an impact on human health? Or those in the plastic recycling industry in the slums of India that melt plastic to create small pellets taking all the health risks on them. WWF doesn’t think so.

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Newsletter: Medical selfies are the next big thing + Back on the road in Dubai

OurCrowd

OurCrowd is investing in Binah.ai, an Israeli startup that is disrupting the remote, real-time health data monitoring market with software that extracts vital signs in one minute using a medical selfie taken with a standard smartphone, tablet or laptop camera. in seed funding led by OurCrowd’s Labs/02 incubator, TechCrunch reports.