China's Jidu, Brazil's Creditas, Tunisia's Instadeep, and India's Ola Electric, Ninjacart, and DealShare raised over $1.2 billion

This week on The Draft, at least six startups across emerging markets raised $100 million or more each in venture capital worth over $1.2 billion, including China's Jidu, Brazil's Creditas, Tunisia's Instadeep, and India's Ola Electric, Ninjacart, and DealShare.

We also covered the closing of a few mega-funds for early and late-stage startup investments in Africa, Asia, and the United Arab Emirates, Google's investment into India's Airtel, and Apple's regaining of the top position in smartphone shipments in China for the first time since 2015.

Now, here are this week's most important technology news and venture capital deals across emerging markets globally from the Techloy news team, all in one place.

We hope you enjoy reading, as we did enjoy curating The Draft while listening to Goya Menor & Nektunez' Ameno Amapiano Remix. 😉