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Pan-African VC Verod-Kepple closes its first fund at $60M tcrn.ch/3PUZSBC

BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Read more: tcrn.ch/3vlytC5

NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.

This was part of a secret program called 'Project Ghostbusters,' and even inside the company, it was very controversial.

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🚨: VNV Global, one of Wasoko’s major investors, slashed the startup’s valuation by 48% to $260M as of Dec 2023, the same month Wasoko announced its planned merger with MaxAB.

Wasoko was valued at $625M in a Tiger Global-led Series B round in 2022. tcrn.ch/3ITbmSb

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Nala set out to offer remittance services, it’s building a B2B payment platform too tcrn.ch/3v83IjX

Moove making all the right moves? The ecosystem was thirsty for such a deal.

GREAT NEWS: All 85 Pitch Deck Teardowns I've done for TechCrunch are now available 100% for free, without a paywall.

It's an incredible library of feedback and examples of pitch decks that have successfully raised money.

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Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

The suit alleges they breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the non-profit’s mission to develop AI that benefits humanity.

Read more: tcrn.ch/48BDYtF

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of non-profit AI mission tcrn.ch/48BDYtF

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Despite a downturn in African VC funds last year, the landscape is ripe with opportunities. Seedstars is stepping up with our VC funds, targeting key sectors like fintech and climate.

Want to learn more? Check out the TechCrunch article 👇 seedsta.rs/3I0VQTU

Bioptimus raises $35 million seed round to develop AI foundational model focused on biology tcrn.ch/3uu2L5a

🚨: Partech has closed its second Africa fund at €280M ($300M+), solidifying its position as the largest Africa-focused fund yet.

The fund, which has backed the likes of Wave, TradeDepot and Reliance, is investing $1M-$15M from seed to Series C.tcrn.ch/3UGM2Gp

Thank you @dominicmadori Kyle Wiggers TechCrunch for setting the record straight. This is a must-read for anybody who prides themselves on being knowledgeable about AI, and for VCs/investors funding it:
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While AI girlfriends and boyfriends are marketed as aids to mental health and well-being, a new study from Mozilla shows they actually “specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” gizmodo.com/your-ai-girlfr…