Business

Startups in East Africa have a new source for investment and mentorship. Sweden’s Norrsken Foundation—a coworking space and investment fund based in Stockholm—opened its tech fund and entrepreneurship hub in Rwanda today to support ventures across the region. Norrsken’s Kigali center is located on the former École Belge campus and will …

Singapore is keen to exert itself as an epicenter for startups and tech worldwide. But beyond the government-backed startup programs, which include grants, investment checks and more, a key point is simply making it easy for companies to set up shop in the country. Southeast Asia is highly touted as …

“A Taco Bell Resort is opening in Palm Springs, California this summer” is a sentence I never thought I’d type, but here we are—it’s really and truly happening! The brand calls it “the biggest expression of the Taco Bell lifestyle to date” and while they’re still ironing out the details, …

  If you ask Eugenio Pace to describe himself, “engineer” would be fairly high on the list. “Being a CEO is pretty busy,” he told TechCrunch in a call last week. “But I’m an engineer in my heart — I am a problem solver,” he said. Pace, an Argentinan immigrant …

  The houses along the tree-lined blocks of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto, with their big back yards, swimming pools and driveways are about as far removed from the snarls of traffic, sputtering diesel engines, and smoggy air of South America’s major metropolises as one can get. But it was …

  In 2016, former World Bank analyst Eka Pamitra teamed up with five friends to start a business that would help farmers in their native Indonesia. Today their company — TaniGroup — closed a $10 million Series A round that’s aimed at expanding its service nationwide with the support of …

We caught up with Peter to chat about all things PS40, how the brand came to be, and a few words about what’s to come. “PS40 is formally two businesses,” Peter tells us. “We have a bar in the Sydney CBD, and we also run a soda factory from the …

Predicting the success potential for new brands is not necessarily a fool’s errand, but even with advancements in research techniques it’s still hard to determine which new products or services will be a win with consumers. Nielsen estimates that 85% of new products launched in the consumer packaged goods industry …

Gary Pisano’s recent Harvard Business Review piece, The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures, beautifully frames up how innovative corporate environments are frequently misunderstood. Innovative startups aren’t just about being cool and nimble, having beer taps in the kitchen, or an endless bounty of swag. Pisano sums up the harder, harsher …

The Fortune 500 – the annual ranking of American companies that divides opinion amongst many in the nation and around the world. Seen by some as a gratuitous display of the American obsession with money, the Fortune 500’s stated mission is both simple and free from bombast: A ranked list …