Nintendo announced Monday morning that Charles Martinet, the voice actor who has played Mario since 1991, is stepping down from his role. In addition to voicing the world’s most famous plumber, Martinet, 67, has voiced Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and the toddler versions of these characters in over a hundred titles in the Mario video game …
Making protein from mushrooms is not a new concept; However, Enough believes its technology – and its ability to scale production quickly – will set it apart. The Scotland-based company secured €40 million ($43.5 million in today’s dollars) in new growth financing to test this theory. Pumping this paste is enough to double the production …
Mycoprotein producer Enough raises €40m to double its production capacity Read More »
For many years, the Indian market has been waiting for the public launch of Reliance Retail and Jio platforms. But, to everyone’s surprise, late last year Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries Group, created a different proposition – an unknown non-bank financial subsidiary – to the market. The split offering, Jio …
Jio Financial Services, a subsidiary of Reliance, made its market debut Read More »
YouTube announced today how it plans to approach the impact AI technology is having on the music industry with regard to its video hosting platform and its existing partnerships across the music industry, including with artists, labels and other rightsholders. While the company is bullish on AI’s potential to “enhance music’s unique creative expression,” it …
YouTube is working on a plan to compensate artists and rightsholders for AI music Read More »
Zanifu, a Kenyan fintech that provides inventory financing to micro, small and medium enterprises, raised $11.2m in debt funding in a pre-Series A round led by Beyond Capital Ventures and Variant Investments. Founders Factory Africa, AAIC Investment, Google Black Founders Fund and existing investor Launch Africa also participated in the round. This brings the total …
Zanifu raises $11.2m to expand inventory finance offerings in Kenya Read More »
BeReal tries to be real. And if we’re real, what good is this compendium of discovery anyway? The spontaneous once-a-day photo-sharing app BeReal sets itself apart from other social apps by inviting us to connect with our friends, not the larger audience. There is no BeReal influencer or celebrity, and there is no way to …
BeReal gets even more social with Friends of Friends feature Read More »
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Equity, the startup activity podcast, where we unpack the numbers and nuances behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines earlier in the week. Here is the recap from this morning: Inventories are …
Robotaxis Has Hit a Speed Bump, Crypto Is Down, and Tech IPOs Could Be on the Horizon Read More »
Twiga will embark on another round of layoffs to sustain its business amid macroeconomic headwinds that have hampered capital raising and forced venture capital firms to scale back operations. The Kenyan B2B e-commerce platform has announced that it will lay off 283 employees, a third or 33% of its 850 employees, as it pushes for …
Ghost, which provides the B2B market for surplus inventory, is back with new funding in the form of a $30 million Series B round. It’s been a year since Josh Kaplan and De Murthy launched the members-only Ghost Marketplace, with $20 million in Series A capital, to help brands and retailers buy, sell and ship …
Tesla said internal wrongdoing was behind a data breach that affected more than 75,000 employees at the company. Tesla, the electric car maker owned by Elon Musk, said in a data breach notice filed with the Maine attorney general that the investigation found former employees had leaked more than 75,000 personal details to a foreign …
Tesla says the data breach affecting 75,000 employees was an inside job Read More »
