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Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools

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Kerry Wang told TechCrunch that she felt some interview processes didn’t enable enough time for them to fully demonstrate how they were different. The new funding will enable the company to make additional hires to double the size of the team next year, and invest in product development and its go-to marketing strategy.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to watch these incredible founders take the stage. I know you want to see who made the cut.

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

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Despite the ups and downs, Amazon said in a press release detailing the One Medical acquisition that it plans to improve the quality of care across the board: We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention. But for Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward Health, he said he wished Amazon did more.

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

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The Pack SuperStore app enables sari-sari owners to process their business’ inventory, bookkeeping and data collection. Packworks started after founders Hubert Yap, Bing Tan and Ibba Bernando took a motorcycle journey to rural communities. It also gives access to financial products and supply ordering at a cheaper price.

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When grandma falls, SafelyYou is there to catch her (on video)

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I talk to so many founders — capable, smart, well-connected, experienced founders — who are working on problems that genuinely just don’t matter. I was just thinking about my own family,” said George Netscher, founder and CEO at SafelyYou. George Netscher, CEO and co-founder of SafelyYou.

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CrowdForce raises $3.6M to increase access to cash for underserved communities in Nigeria

TechCrunch

The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. commission per transaction its partners make across all boards. L-R: Tomi Ayorinde (CEO) and Dami Ayorinde (COO). The YC-backed CrowdForce still runs its MobileForms products. trillion via its partners.

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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

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It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. In my initial effort I collected all of the resource information that I could find. Don’t go it alone.