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Oxfam Novib and Goodwell target East African startups with €20M Pepea fund

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The fund targets high-impact tech-enabled businesses, “because the combination of tech and brick-and-mortar works best in these environments. Tech enables access and affordability, and both are elementary for the end-users we aim to reach, the lower income groups on the continent,” said Goodwell Investments, managing partner, Els Boerhof.

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Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform

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At the core of Arrikto is Kubeflow, the Google -incubated open-source machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes — and in many ways, you can think of Arrikto as offering an enterprise-ready version of Kubeflow. Arrikto CEO Constantinos Venetsanopoulos. Image Credits: Arrikto.

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

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Deepgram’s speech AI is the core enabling technology behind many of our customers’ applications, and the demand for speech understanding grows as companies seek greater efficiency.” ” Launched in 2015, Deepgram focuses on building custom voice-recognition solutions for customers such as Spotify, Auth0 and even NASA.

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LexCheck raises $17M to automate common contracting processes

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” Sangha, a law lecturer at the University of Pennslyvania and a licensed attorney in the State of New York, founded LexCheck in 2015. Lexion , which was incubated at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, uses machine learning and AI to automate aspects of contract management.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

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Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

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Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted. Feeding the City.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. Many of our portfolio companies opened up fully-remote roles.

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