Lawrence Investment Holdings https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html News Home Africa’s last-mile electricity problem cannot be solved by markets alone – TechCabal Green Eagle Solutions lands Copilot Capital backing to take renewable energy ‘autopilot’ global – Tech.eu Boss of San Francisco-based AI coding startup pokes fun at “monoculture” Silicon Valley, as opens London office – Tech.eu Ground A raises €9M+ to bring laser-based counter-drone technology to market – Tech.eu Chilean pulp and paper company CMPC’s next challenge: Turning investments into industrial change – Global Venturing Uber’s $14 ride problem in Nigeria – TechCabal Matt Clifford quits ARIA after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns – Sifted Mukuru wants Botswana’s phones to do more than receive and send money – TechCabal Robbie Williams-backed ticketing platform Tickets for Good raises £3.9M – Tech.eu Exclusive: Jack & Jill raises £30m led by Air Street – Sifted Next Wave: The perfect price discrimination – TechCabal Flex IT and T1A combine to create €150M European circular IT platform – Tech.eu UK government seeks fund manager for £150m northern scaleup fund – Sifted Next Wave: Why Uber broke in Nigeria – TechCabal The DeepMind mafia building startups in Europe – Sifted UK chancellor unveils £150M northern scaleup fund – Tech.eu There is no right CVC model – Global Venturing Hugging Face’s $12.9bn sale is both inspiring and dispiriting for Europe – Sifted 17 startup and investor hotspots in Stockholm – Sifted Why Legora isn’t building its own model – Sifted Revolut clears first hurdle to US banking licence – Sifted Uber is gone. Its users must find another way around Nigeria. – TechCabal German spacetech Isar Aerospace’s second rocket launch reaches orbit in milestone – Sifted TechBBQ’s Charles Kinga on what European investors get wrong about Africa  – TechCabal Exclusive: H cofounder Laurent Sifre joins Microsoft – Sifted Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event – TechCrunch Venture August European tech funding falls 63% as dealmaking slows – Tech.eu Uber restores Visa payments in Kenya after eight-month pause – TechCabal Sun King joins Kenya’s growing smartphone financing race – TechCabal Bessemer and Creandum set to back new AI infrastructure startup at $600m valuation, sources say – Sifted UK startup AI Score raises $5.4M to scale its enterprise AI governance platform – Tech.eu Nvidia confirms $12.93BN purchase of Hugging Face – Tech.eu CVS Health Ventures looks beyond healthcare for its next bets – Global Venturing From 70 million to 317 million: How Serigne Dioum plans to turn every MTN subscriber into a MoMo user  – TechCabal Should you buy the Redmi 17 5G? What to consider first – TechCabal Beyond chatbots, South Africa’s 4Sight sees AI running business processes – TechCabal Stellar Alpina secures €160K from Venture Kick for in-space propulsion – Tech.eu The top 10 investors in the Nordics – Sifted Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation – TechCrunch Venture ‘Our companies are becoming excellent at surviving and worse at scaling’: what’s gone wrong with Nordic fintech – Sifted Village Capital deploys $450,000 in first Nigeria investments – TechCabal Uber came to Africa to disrupt transport. Then Africa changed Uber. – TechCabal Atira raises $17.5M to bring AI orchestration to industrial sales – Tech.eu VCs rejoice as UK government rules out spinout exit tax – Sifted Wonderful raises $550M, Mykhailo Fedorov’s new defencetech investment fund, and Londoners can now hail AVs (with safety drivers) – Tech.eu The Netherlands’ top-funded tech companies in H1 2026 – Tech.eu Matt Clifford’s move to Anthropic draws criticism: ‘Not cool’ – Sifted Ahn leaves Lotte Ventures for role at AI search company – Global Venturing