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LinqAlpha co-CEOs Jacob Chanyeol Choi and Hojun Choi. New York-based LinqAlpha has announced the closing of a $22 million Series A funding round anchored by Paris-based AVP, South Korea’s Atinum Investment and California’s GFT Ventures, as it aims to build alpha for investors, specifically an “alpha intelligence layer” for public markets. Japan’s SBI Investment and…

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Science & Tech THE UK-Nigeria Tech Hub and the Nest Innovation Technology Park have partnered to inaugurate the Nigeria Innovation Cluster Exchange (NICE) to address fragmentation within Nigeria’s innovation ecosystem. The Co-founder of The Nest Innovation Technology Park, Mr Oluwajoba Oloba, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Oloba said the initiative was funded by…

The British Business Bank continues its recent spree of investments in British innovation with a cornerstone commitment of €58 million (£50 million) to Soho Square Capital Fund II to help established SMBs looking to grow further. The Bank is joined by several unamed US institutional investors in the fund. Walid Fakhry, co-Managing Partner, Soho Square Capital…

Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026. Courtesy of Meta Meta’s massive Hyperion data center project in rural Louisiana is getting much bigger and costlier, with a big assist from the state’s government. The company said in a blog post Monday that the site in Richland Parish, Louisiana…

Startup ecosystems are often described through their most visible features: co-working spaces, demo days, funding rounds, accelerator programmes and networking events. These elements matter, but they do not tell the full story. A strong ecosystem is not defined by how many actors it contains. It is defined by how effectively those actors work together. Choosing…