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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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Data show 2021 was a bonkers, record-setting year for venture capital

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Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. Today’s startup boom, from a venture capital perspective, is a wide-ranging and incredibly expensive enterprise. Venture capitalists went hard in 2021. market retain much of their historical heft.

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Why 2022 insurtech investment could surprise you

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Private market investors poured capital into promising insurtech startups, while the public markets sent the value of recently public insurtech companies down — and then further down as the year progressed. billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.). Other examples are at hand. billion.

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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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Invisible AI raises $15M to stick worker-monitoring cameras in factories

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. “Everything done in manufacturing, from safety audits to continuous improvement cycles, is still based on manual data collection using stop watches and clipboards. Danziger co-founded Invisible AI in late 2018 with Prateek Sachdeva, who he met while working at lidar sensor startup Luminar.

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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

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’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Kinnami has created a unique storage and security system, ‘AmiShare’, which fragments and encrypts data.

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Groopit announces $2M pre-seed to help execs access crowd-sourced company data

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with participation from a group of investors that includes Voyager Capital and Vulcan Capital. Groopit co-founder and CEO Tammy Savage says that when she was working at Microsoft she saw a problem around getting data to people where it was needed inside the organization. The company launched in 2018 after Savage left Microsoft.