Europe’s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies sharpened on Thursday when Britain demanded that it receive all the shots it paid for after the European Union asked
Cowrywise, a Nigerian fintech startup that offers digital wealth management and financial planning solutions, has raised $3 million in pre-Series A funding. Quona Capital led the round as Tsadik Found
The European Union’s dispute with AstraZeneca intensified Wednesday with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker denying the EU’s assertion that it had pulled out of talks on vacci
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Pula, a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million.The roun
The enterprise-focused Alchemist Accelerator is hosting its 26th Demo Day today, with twenty companies expected to debut.This is Alchemist’s third Demo Day to be fully virtual due to the ongoing
As the global agricultural industry stretches to meet expected population growth and food demand, and food security becomes more of a pressing issue with global warming, a startup out of South Africa
Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for growing plant tissues in a lab – sort of like how companies and researchers are approaching lab-grown meat. The process would be able to produce wood
03:56 While the world races to vaccinate against the coronavirus, another silent pandemic is looming. Antimicrobial resistance is on the increase, and unless new drugs are found, the W
The appreciation of the Chinese yuan against the U.S. dollar enters the eighth month. /CFP Editor's note: Guan Tao is the chief economist of BOC International, and also a former director of th
Once overlooked, agritech startups are beginning to have a moment in India.On Tuesday, DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 millio
China's banking and insurance regulator banned commercial banks from using third-party internet platforms to sell deposit products, including those relating to fixed-te
Saline-alkali soil rice harvest at Qingkou Salt Farm, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, China, October 28, 2020. /CFPThe team of renowned Chinese agronomist Yuan Long
A user from Hubei Province displays the Douyin account "Chinese Pioneer Yuan Longping," January 12, 2021. /CFPThe account of Yuan Longping, China's "Father of Hybrid Ri
Rescuers searching for the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed into the ocean with 62 people on board on Saturday say they have located the plane's bla
Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding?More and more startups are pursuing revenue-based VCs, but it
Yuan Longping's Douyin account has attracted more than 15 million followers in just three days. /Screenshot of DouyinChinese agronomist Yuan Longping, famed for develop
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