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Ford says it will go all-electric in Europe by 2030

The Verge

Ford will only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2030, it said Wednesday. In 2019, the company struck a deal with Volkswagen to use the German auto giant’s electric-vehicle modular electric vehicle platform. VW’s MEB platform will serve as the basis for 15 million electric cars the automaker aims to sell.

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Fishy business: Rooser raises $23M for its seafood trading platform

TechCrunch

Today a startup that has built a platform to make the business of fishing more efficient — and thus the process overall more traceable and less prone to waste — is announcing a round of funding to ride on that wave. Fishing business’s greatest problem, he said, is uncertainty.

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Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners

TechCrunch

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Some include Pastel , Kippa and OZÉ. .

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Flutterwave acquires Disha, a creator platform that planned to shutter in February

TechCrunch

In February, Disha , a Nigeria-based platform that allows digital creators to curate, sell digital content, create portfolios and receive payments from their audience globally, announced that it was closing shop. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business.

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Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. Even with some (very much not all) countries in Europe relaxing parts of their orders, grocery has remained a very-much used online category in markets where it is available. ” Rohlik, ?upr

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Charles raises $20M to bring conversational commerce to WhatsApp in Europe

TechCrunch

As part of that broader movement, the mighty WhatsApp, a dominant force in the messaging world, has been pushing deeper into the business arena with myriad tools to connect retailers with customers — from product catalogs and collections , to shopping carts and Instagram Shops integration. Charles’ platform in action.

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Sweden’s Tink raises $103M as its open banking platform grows to 3,400 banks and 250M customers

TechCrunch

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. billion. .

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