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Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools

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They started Searchlight in 2018 to develop technology that uses behavioral reference data and prescriptive analytics to give employers a more 360-degree view of a potential candidate’s strengths and weaknesses that might not appear on a resume or come out during an interview. Searchlight collection of behavioral data.

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Reveal raises $50M to espouse the benefits of partner ecosystems

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In a 2018 Accenture survey , 76% of business leaders said that current business models will be unrecognizable in the next five years, with ecosystems being the main change agent. The capital brings the startup’s total raised to about $54 million. With customers including Qualtrics, Tealium, Contentsquare, and Vonage.

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How Amazon’s continued expansion into healthcare could buoy the sector

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The tech behemoth originally entered the health sector after it acquired PillPack , an online pharmacy, in 2018 and later rebranded as Amazon Pharmacy. For Deena Shakir, a partner at Lux Capital, the move by Amazon shows the value of healthcare for leading tech companies. Talkspace and BetterHelp have been in the spotlight as the U.S.

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Apptopia raises $20M to expand its competitive intelligence business beyond mobile

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The new financing was led by ABS Capital Partners, and follows three consecutive years of 50% year-over-year growth for Apptopia’s business, which has been profitable since the beginning of last year, the company says. Rivals had more accurate data from about 2016 through 2018 because of their use of mobile panels, Kay says.

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Packworks makes operations easier for sari-sari stores in the Philippines

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Inspired by a motorcycle journey, Packworks is on a mission to change that, with a mobile enterprise resource planning platform (ERP) that just raised $2 million led by logistics group Fast Group and CVC Capital Partners, with participation from ADB Ventures, Arise, Techstars and Ideaspace Foundation.

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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. trillion via its partners.

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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

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Of course, given that the world is now rife with data-collecting-devices and that there’s an enormous interest in making that data actionable without having to send it back and forth to a distant cloud, there are many other companies and projects with the same objective as Latent AI.