One Startup’s Plan to Help Africa Lure Back Its AI Talent

Tessa Brown, Germ Network CEO, pitching on the main stage at Techcrunch Disrupt 2024

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Germ Network raises pre-seed funding from K5 Global, Mozilla Ventures

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Jade Abbott, from Lelapa AI, is working to ensure that African languages are part of the generative AI boom.

Lelapa AI announces the launch of Inkuba LM 0.4B, the first African language model (LLM) capable of understanding and responding in five African languages: IsiZulu, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, and IsiXhosa.

Credo AI announced that it has raised $21 million in new capital from Mozilla Ventures, CrimsoNox Capital, and FPV Ventures with participation from existing investors Sands Capital, Decibel VC, Booz Allen Hamilton, and AI Fund. This brings the company’s total funding raised to $41.3 million.

Trail, a Munich-based technology startup building the copilot for AI governance, announced the successful closure of a €1.45 million pre-seed round. The funding round is led by early-stage investor NP-Hard Ventures with participation from Mozilla Ventures, CapitalT, Common Magic, and various business angels.

Australian AI entrepreneur Jeremy Howard has capped an US$8 million ($12.2 million) angel investment round for his latest startup, Answer.AI. Founded by Brisbane-based Howard and The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, Answer.AI is a research and development lab that hopes to do for AI what Thomas Edison’s invention lab did for electricity.