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Creative platform EVEN, which allows artists to sell music directly to fans, said it has closed a $2.2 million seed round led by CSA Partners. The platform positions itself as the first stop before artists release music on streaming platforms. Fans, in return, receive access to exclusive content and experiences. The company’s CEO and founder, Mag Rodriguez, says he started building the platform last February as a way to help Black and brown artists retain equity in their creative work. Rodriguez said EVEN aims to…

Fresh fruits and vegetable supply chain startup Sorted, which is founded by former Milkbasket cofounder Anant Goel, has raised $5 million as a part of its ongoing seed funding round.According to the company’s documents filed with the corporate affairs ministry (MCA), venture capital firms Beenext, White Venture Capital and NB Ventures have participated in Sorted’s ongoing fundraise.Snapdeal cofounders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal have also invested in the round, documents reviewed by ET showed.Sorted has been running…

UCLA secured a No. 2 seed in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Sunday and will play 15th-seeded North Carolina-Asheville in the first round of the West Regional on Thursday as it continues its quest to win its first national championship since 1995.USC made the NCAA tournament as a No. 10 seed and will play No. 7 Michigan State in the first round of the East Regional in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday.Fourteenth-seeded UC Santa Barbara (27-7), the Big West conference co-champion, will play No. 3 Baylor in a South Region…

They play such scathing defense, the crowd roars with every deflection.They are so smart on offense, the crowd roars with every screen.They are so ready for the road ahead that a full and rollicking Pauley Pavilion sent them off Saturday night with the sort of noise rarely heard in this part of Westwood.This is the loudest UCLA basketball team in years.This is the best one too.In the wake of the Bruin’s biggest victory of the season — a 82-73 win over eighth-ranked Arizona — there is only one place for UCLA to go from…

Howdy, I’m your host, Austin Knoblauch, filling in for Houston Mitchell, who’s probably trying to track down Jeff Hardy so he can learn the correct technique for a Swanton Bomb. Let’s get right to the news.From Ben Bolch: For the briefest of moments as he dribbled on the wing, UCLA’s Jaime Jaquez Jr. saw an opening. A screen by teammate David Singleton had cleared a tempting path to the basket.Accelerating with a quick burst, Jaquez commenced liftoff.Three Arizona State defenders converged on the airborne intruder,…

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak got on the mic to talk startups, pet peeves and focaccia. What else did you expect? Here’s what we got into: Descope landed a $53 million (!) seed round, a Phenomenal new venture fund and a neobank out to make credit more accessible to young people in Mexico. Then we pivoted to talk about buy now, pay later…

Before founding The Edit LDN, Moses Rashid frequented sneaker festivals and exhibitions to buy limited edition shoes. But Rashid, who describes himself as a “huge sneakerhead,” was often disappointed by the shopping experience. “I found it crazy that I was dropping $850 on a pair of sneakers but I wouldn’t even get a bag to bring them home in!” he said. He started The Edit LDN out of his home two years ago to give other sneakerheads the kind of premium experience they’d expect from luxury brands like Louis Vuitton or…

Kwara, a Kenyan fintech digitizing credit unions (saccos), more than doubled its client base last year, and its eyeing enormous growth in the coming years after raising a $3 million seed extension, and signing an exclusive digital solutions distribution agreement with the Kenya Union of Savings & Credit Cooperatives (Kuscco), the national umbrella body representing saccos. Following the Kuscco partnership, Kwara said it has gained connections to a pool of over 4,000 saccos for its…

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The Benin City-based agribusiness company, Ellah Lakes, closed a deal with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its subsidiary, Adani Staple Crop Processing Zone Food Company Limited, allowing supply of technical support services and participation in its seed multiplication programme. Ellah Lakes, named after its founder, the deceased FJ Ellah, attained quoted company status in 1993 when it listed in Lagos. In 2016, the company stopped running its primary fish farming business, unable…