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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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Deepgram lands new cash to grow its enterprise voice-recognition business

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” Launched in 2015, Deepgram focuses on building custom voice-recognition solutions for customers such as Spotify, Auth0 and even NASA. He was quick to point out that the company complies with GDPR and lets users request that their data be deleted at any time.

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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. Carly writes that this time the breach affected Authy two-factor app users. Oh, and the number of customers affected is now over 160. More about this below in Big Tech. Manish has more.

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

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The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. 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.

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6 Leadership Lessons Learned from the Founder of EO

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Luckily, my cofounder, Alex Yastrebenetsky, and I met Verne in 2015 when our entire leadership team attended a Scaling Up workshop. Verne shared a study from Google that, based on years of data collection and analysis, identified two behaviors of the most successful teams: Conversational turn-taking. And that’s the short list.).

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Caden launches with $3.4M to help consumers take control of their data

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After selling his design consultancy, ÄKTA, to Salesforce in 2015, he decided to spend a few years “off the grid” on an island in Europe. Now, he’s back in New York City, launching Caden , a startup that allows consumers to share their data with companies and get paid for it in return. A majority of U.S.