Start-up

12 African fintech startups selected for Village Capital investment-readiness programme

U.S-based venture capital fund Village Capital has announced the full cohort of fintech startups from Africa that will take part…

Startup to be America’s first $1bn “marijuana unicorn”

Cura Cannabis Solutions, maker of the Select Oil vape cartridges, wants to be the first "unicorn" with a $1 billion…

Budgeting for start-ups

Budgeting can be simply defined as balancing expenses with income. It is the process estimating revenue and expenses over a…

SoftBank Leads $120m funding in fintech startup Lemonade

SoftBank Group Corp. is betting that technology can overhaul the home insurance industry by leading a $120 million round in…

Insurance startup to launch £15m initial coin offering

Millennial-focused insurance startup InsurePal has announced it is raising £15m in an initial coin offering (ICO) to fund its UK…

Space startup raises $90m to bring Ads to moon by 2020

Japanese companies are planning to kick-start the lunar economy by backing a local startup’s mission to land on the moon…