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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

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Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Assent’s compliance platform provides centralized access to supply chain data for use by teams across a given company. While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S. is not uncommon, it’s a bit more rare in the Canadian tech scene.

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

When my co-founders and I launched Branch in 2015, our mission was to deliver world class financial services to the mobile generation. Traditionally, banks have primarily served prime customers, resulting in the lowest cost of funds, while digital lenders have targeted slightly riskier segments and consequently have a higher cost of capital.

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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

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To fill the gap, he started Laiye in 2015. Other investors include VMS Group from Hong Kong, Chinese private equity firm Youshan Capital, as well as existing investors Lightspeed China and U.S. Acquiring Mindsay naturally allows Laiye to leapfrog the development challenges of training algorithms for a new language.

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CrowdForce raises $3.6M to increase access to cash for underserved communities in Nigeria

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Aruwa Capital Management led the equity-and-debt round, with participation from HAVAÍC and AAIC. The company said it will use part of the capital to expand its team, geographical operations and marketing to increase its 7,000-strong active agent network three-fold this year. million pre-Series A investment.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

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NeuroLex offers a voice data collection platform, an API that researchers can use to clean and model voice files, and voice datasets for conditions like fatigue, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. Leveraging Voice Tech to Give Elders More Independence As of July 2015, there were 47.8

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Daily Crunch: Meta’s upcoming VR headset will track eye movements and capture facial expressions

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Mo’ Twilio, mo’ problems : The hits from Twilio’s data breach earlier this month keep coming. Authy is a company Twilio acquired in 2015. Staying in Asia, Anna and Alex take the pulse on China’s venture capital scene. Carly writes that this time the breach affected Authy two-factor app users. More about this below in Big Tech.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works.

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