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Environmental, social and governance tracking gets easier with ESGgo

TechCrunch

You can’t swing an ethically sourced, locally produced, sustainably raised dead fish these days without hitting a set of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals in a company’s board meetings or annual reports. This data, combined with measuring it against the company’s goals, is the space where ESGgo operates.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why your title matters, part-time CFOs, Sequoia’s new model

TechCrunch

” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools

TechCrunch

The latest round of funding was led by Founders Fund with participation from Accel, Shasta, Kapor Capital, Operator Collective and a group of angel investors including executives at companies like Coda, Confluent and Plaid. Searchlight collection of behavioral data. million seed round in 2019.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund, says on the home page of Matchbox.vc: “Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to 2020.

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

TechCrunch

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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Indonesian aquaculture startup DELOS raises $8m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

Register DELOS, an Indonesian aquaculture-tech company , has raised $8 million in Seed extension financing co-led by Centauri, a collaborative fund between MDI Ventures and KB Investment Co., and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures.

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

TechCrunch

Although those endeavors seem to be bearing fruit, Amazon also had a failed venture, Haven, with Berkshire and JPM that disbanded after multiple internal issues. But for Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward Health, he said he wished Amazon did more. Other tech giants such as Apple and Google have also ventured into healthcare.

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