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Opaque Systems secures cash to keep data private while enabling collaboration

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Opaque Systems , a startup developing what it describes as “AI for confidential computing,” today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A funding round led by Walden Catalyst Partners with participation from Storm Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Intel Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund, and FactoryHQ.

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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

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They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. CEO Gómez pointed out that Latin America has gone from being a laggard when it comes to e-commerce to being home to the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce market, which is estimated at over $100 billion and expected to double by 2025.

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Prefabs sprout: How Modulous helps housing developers build modular homes without factories

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startup that makes it easier for housing developers, architects and construction firms to configure and design modular homes to address the ongoing housing crisis , has raised £10 million ($11.7 billion people by 2025 , as house-price growth continues to outpace income growth. Modulous , a U.K. million) in a series A round of funding.

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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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Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

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Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 While collaborating with product developers, Dang and Wang saw that while product developers wanted to use AI, they didn’t have the right tools in which to do it without relying on data scientists.

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Japan’s Zeals raises $38.8M to scale its chat commerce platform

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Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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Pangyo Techno Valley: Pioneering Global Urban Air Mobility Solutions

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Chosen companies receive support, including a 40-80% rent subsidy, public laboratories, indoor drone testing grounds, and meeting rooms, enabling them to concentrate on technological advancement. The 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley inaugurated its Business Growth Center with the vision to cultivate nascent drone developers.