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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

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AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019.

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YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

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Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products.

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Singapore-based fintech STACS raises $3.6M to develop blockchain platforms for financial institutions

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The company develops blockchain platforms that can work with financial institutions’ existing infrastructure, and its core technology is also used in GreenSTACS for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. Singapore-based fintech Hashstacs Pte Ltd (STACS) announced today it has raised $3.6 million USD in pre-Series A funding.

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Pangaea Holdings, developing men’s personal care brands, raises $68M, including minority stake from Eurazeo

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Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020. Pangaea ended up developing proprietary infrastructure, including warehousing, payments and shipping, as a holding company to grow and scale direct-to-consumer brands.

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Modular closes $30 million seed round to simplify the process of developing AI systems

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But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. “Modular’s main competition is the mindset that dominates AI software development within Big Tech, and Big Tech itself,” Lattner said.

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Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools

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Metabase previously raised $8 million in Series A funding back in 2019, led by NEA. Metabase was developed within venture studio Expa and spun out as an easy way for people to interact with data sets, co-founder and CEO Sameer Al-Sakran told TechCrunch. million in funding since it was founded in 2015.

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Dreamit Ventures Announces Spring 2020 Cohort, Kicks Off Its First Fully Virtual Program

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The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. Since 2008, Dreamit has worked with over 350 companies. View Dreamit’s full portfolio here.

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