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The Fashion Kingdom (TFK), an Egyptian e-commerce marketplace for fashion, beauty and home accessories items, announced today that it has raised $2.6 million in seed funding led by CVentures, a corporate venture capital firm based in Egypt. A15, an early-stage VC in the MENA region that has backed the likes of Esaal, Paymob and Helios Investment Partners subsidiary, TPay, made a follow-on investment, according to TFK. Fadi Antaki, co-founder and CEO of TFK, founded the company in January 2020 with Marianne Simaika…

YC-backed climate tech startup, Pina Earth, has closed a $2.5 million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. The seed is led by Franco-German VC XAnge, with participation from London-based VC firm Nordstar, as well as a number of business angels and serial founders, including Gustaf Alstromer (partner at Y Combinator), Sundeep Ahuja (partner at Climate Capital), Lea-Sophie Cramer (founder at Amorelie) and Anselm…

The ancestor of your stir-fry might be growing closer than you think. Wild field mustard, or Brassica rapa, is an unassuming plant that reaches a couple of feet tall and produces clusters of small, yellow flowers perched atop spindly green stalks. It is the nearest wild relative to such produce aisle hits as turnips, napa cabbage, and bok choy. Outside of farm fields, feral forms of the plant are found worldwide thanks to human introductions, and these free-growing B. rapa varieties are edible, too. The plant has likely…

FinSMEs: Tel Aviv-based Jit, which automates product security for developers, announces a $38.5M seed led by Boldstart Ventures and the launch of its free beta version — Jit, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of a platform simplifying product security for developers, raised $38.5m in seed funding. FinSMEs: Tel Aviv-based Jit, which automates product security for developers, announces a $38.5M seed led by Boldstart Ventures and the launch of its free beta version — Jit, a Tel…

Science in meter and verse Credit: J. Berger/BRG/Global Crop Diversity TrustAdvertisement Hoarded at the heart of an Arctic mountain, within an archipelago of snow: an ark of seeds. Cocooned against soil, nuclear bodies hunker and wait for some future hungerscape. A gathering of crops, varied faces folded into foil, shuttered from the earth. Lentil, dark and round and pebble-smooth. Barley's slender husk of an eye. Each wrinkled chickpea the embryonic head of a bird. Sister…

Arabic Style released : A full RTL interface  —  In the first blog of our new theme series, we featured all the major upgrades and enhancements to Zoho Mail.  In this blog, we are going to delve into the RTL (Right-to-left) UI orientation in Zoho Mailsuite. Arabic Style released : A full RTL interface  —  In the first blog of our new theme series, we featured all the major upgrades and enhancements to Zoho Mail.  In this blog, we are going to delve into the RTL (Right-to-left) UI orientation in Zoho Mailsuite.…

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based Seemplicity, which simplifies enterprise security threat monitoring, raises a $26M Series A and $6M seed — Cybersecurity continues to grow in complexity due to the ever-increasing threat landscape — more services in the cloud, more digital operations and more devices mean … Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based Seemplicity, which simplifies enterprise security threat monitoring, raises a $26M Series A and $6M seed — …

Strong Compute, a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round. The round includes a total of 30 funds and angels, including the likes of Sequoia Capital India, Blackbird, Folklore and Skip Capital, as well as Y Combinator, Starburst Ventures and founders and engineers from companies like Cruise, Waymo, Open AI, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. The company, which was part of Y…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Hockey Publishing date: May 18, 2022  •  29 minutes ago  •  5 minute read  •  Join the conversation Sheldon Keefe during the end of season press conference on Tuesday May 17, 2022. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network Photo by Veronica Henri /Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun Article content If the Maple Leafs want to go further in playoffs, they should aim for higher office. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded…