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Returning investor in Terra's $18M seed extension.
Mecka AI pays people to wear sensors while they make coffee or fix cars, and two people told TechCrunch that Sequoia is leading a round at about $500 million, three months after a $60 million round. The terms are not final.
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The team move disclosed no price. It handed every Instant customer a choice between porting the data layer and paying for the ops that Instant Cloud used to run.
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A $52mn seed closes with an $18mn top-up and a first office outside Africa. The argument that production can stay put now rests on a $100mn bookings number.
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Paid Relay workspaces stop at 11:59 p.m. Pacific on September 14th, and stored credentials are deleted with them. Jacob Bank takes the approval-checkpoint idea into Google Chrome.
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The Nigerian defence-tech company added $18M and a London office. The load-bearing number is a 34,000 sq ft Ghana plant due in Q4 2026, promising 50,000 units a year by 2028.
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