Coople cashes in on the growing gig economy Coople, the Swiss-founded on-demand recruitment platform, just bagged USD 32 million in a Series C round from investors, including Goldman Sachs. Three years after the company expanded into the UK, it plans to use some of the funding to launch in the Netherlands and “one other international market.” Switzerland seeks tighter trade ties with East Africa A trade mission from Switzerland will head to East Africa next month as the continent tries to move beyond oil and mining. The region, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, has taken ‘’huge steps’’ to lower...