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Niama El Bassunie’s Mission to Unlock Trade in Africa

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According to data collected by Magnitt and published in the report, our portfolio has a higher percentage of startups with at least one female founder than the average percentage of female-founded startups in all of MENA.² With all this data, we wanted to share some of the unique stories of these female founders in MENA.

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AIMMO bags $12M Series A to advance data labeling technology  

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“The pandemic accelerated transforming contactless technology with AI deployment for intelligence surveillance, smart city, autonomous driving, smart factory and robotics where AI data is inevitably needed,” Doyle Chung, Head of Global Sales of AIMMO, said in an email interview. ScreenShot | AIMMO website.

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

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In November 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a demonetisation initiative aimed at eradicating black money; Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes ceased to exist as legal tenders and ATM withdrawals were capped. Third, the government was actively trying to remove cash from the system. in a single database.

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Fintech companies must balance the pursuit of profit against ethical data usage

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After investing more than $1 trillion in new technology from 2016 through 2019, the majority of banks globally have yet to see any financial boost from digital transformation programs, according to Accenture. Never before has this gap been more prevalent than amid the pandemic as customers migrated online en masse.

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Evabot secures fresh capital to inject AI into corporate gifting

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Gupta co-launched Evabot, which previously went by the name Vizzi, in 2016 with Satwick Saxena, Ashish Kumar and Akshay Gupta shortly after they immigrated to the U.S. “[Gifts are] picked by our AI based on the data collected and attributes like past gift ratings, weather in a location, gift budget, and more,” Rabi Gupta said.

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Healthie lands $16.5M to build the Stripe for virtual patient care

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The company officially launched in 2016 and has been FCF net income profitable since 2018. Digital health companies Talkspace and BetterHelp have been under watch as the Senate is reviewing potential privacy rights violations related to data mining. Healthie claims they are HIPAA compliant and say they try to ensure data privacy.

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Why you have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene

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billion in Q2, the lowest quarterly tally since 2016. But data via KPMG and PitchBook make it plain that Q3 was a rebound , with $3.6 As always, there was more good stuff to share here than I can possibly fit, so let’s get right into the data, takes, links and other delicacies. Various and Sundry.

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