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Butter Art Fair Expands to Los Angeles During Frieze Week
Butter, the Indianapolis-founded art fair that returns 100 percent of sales proceeds to artists, will make its Los Angeles debut this week, expanding for the first time beyond its Midwest base as the city fills with collectors and dealers for Frieze week. Founded in 2021 and organized by Indianapolis-based cultural development firm GangGang, Butter positions read more
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SportIQ expands connected sports ball technology with $6.2M raise
SportIQ, a company that develops smart basketballs and in-app shooting coaching technology, has raised a total of $6.2 million in a Series A funding round completed in two closings. The latest closing included $3.2 million in new funding from KB Partners, Koppenberg Management, Match Ventures, and a group of high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Read read more
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simmetry.ai expands AI training platform following €330K funding
simmetry.ai, a synthetic data company working across agriculture, food and industrial sectors, has secured €330,000 from NBank, the investment and development bank of the German state of Lower Saxony. The funding was provided through the High-Tech Incubator (HTI) accelerator programme. simmetry.ai was founded in 2024 as a spin-off from the German Research Centre for Artificial read more
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Electric Twin expands AI audience platform with $14M round
Electric Twin, an AI platform developing synthetic audience models designed to simulate real-world human thinking and behaviour, has raised $14 million in funding. The total includes a $10 million round led by Atomico, with participation from LocalGlobe, Mercuri and Samos Investments, as well as several angel investors, including Marc Andreessen, Cal Henderson, Eric Salama, Tom read more
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Africa: Trump Expands U.S. Travel Ban to Include Tanzania, South Sudan, Nigeria and 17 African States
Nairobi — US President Donald Trump’s administration has imposed new entry restrictions on 24 nations, including Tanzania, South Sudan and Nigeria, due to security concerns. President Donald Trump announced restrictions on foreign nationals from 17 African countries, citing “demonstrated, persistent, and severe deficiencies in screening, vetting, and information-sharing” that threaten U.S. national security and public read more
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Zimbabwe Hit By Partial U.S. Travel Ban As Trump Expands Entry Restrictions
Zimbabweans travelling to the United States will face new restrictions after US President Donald Trump expanded a controversial travel ban adding more countries to a list of nations subject to tighter entry controls. The White House said the measures, which take effect on 1 January, are intended “to protect the security of the United States” read more
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Africa: Trump Expands U.S. Travel Restrictions to 15 More Countries, Majority in Africa
Nairobi — President Donald Trump has expanded United States travel restrictions to cover an additional 15 countries, the majority of them in Africa, in a move that is set to further strain U.S.-Africa relations and disrupt travel, education and business links across the continent. Of the 15 newly added countries, 11 are in Africa: Angola, read more
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Qargo expands AI-driven transport management with $33M Series B
Qargo, an intelligent transport management system (TMS), has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round led by Sofina, with participation from existing investor Balderton Capital. The round follows Qargo’s rapid expansion across key European logistics hubs over the last 18 months. This latest investment brings Qargo’s total funding to $54 million. Founded in read more
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BKN301 expands Series B and acquires UK fintech Planky to advance AI-first banking
Fintech has secured a credit facility and acquired Planky, a UK-based tech company specialised in AI-driven financial analytics and open banking. The credit facility accompanies its latest Series B round, bringing the total raised to £29 million. The BKN301 Group is a fintech architecture provider that supports banks and fintech companies. Its cloud-native, proprietary suite read more
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JPMorgan expands in Dubai to target medium-sized firms: report
JPMorgan has expanded in Dubai as part of a broader strategy to increase business with midcap companies in the Middle East, reported Reuters, citing an executive. The move challenges competitors such as Citigroup and builds on JPMorgan’s recent efforts to expand its coverage of midcap firms in Austria and Poland. London-based co-head of corporate banking read more
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