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Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools

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Someone’s education and work history can be similar to other resumes in a pile, but Searchlight aims to improve how companies measure a person’s soft skills to provide not only a differentiator, but also a better indicate of how well that person will ultimately fit into the organization. Searchlight collection of behavioral data.

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Aspiring Founders Forum for Women Globally

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Kerry Wang , Co-founder and CEO at Searchlight. We believe creating a platform where successful women can share their stories and advice with founders who are just getting started is one way to bring about even more successful women-led companies. Diane Green , Co-founder and former CEO at VMware. Holly Liu , Co-founder at Kabam.

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GetYourGuide closes $133M convertible note as travel startups continue to weather the COVID-19 storm

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The funding is being led by Searchlight Capital, with SoftBank Vision Fund, KKR, Battery Ventures, Highland Europe, Spark Capital, Lakestar, Heartcore Capital, NGP Capital and the founding team all also investing. For some context, the company was last valued at more than $1 billion after it raised a Series E of $484 million in 2019.

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Aspiring Founders Forum for Women Globally

Y Combinator

We believe creating a platform where successful women can share their stories and advice with founders who are just getting started is one way to bring about even more successful women-led companies. We need more women-founded startups, and we hope to see you on November 17.

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Salsa dips into $10M to fire up payroll features for software companies

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Salsa thinks it should be quick and easy for software companies to embed and launch payroll features. The company secured $10 million in funding to do just that: provide APIs for developers to add revenue-generating payroll solutions inside their own software products for an all-in-one platform.

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This UK startup got $9M so you’ll pay it to shrink your household bills

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” Nous’ contention is that a for-profit company can help fix systemic abuse by offering a subscription service — meaning it’s clearly batting for the consumer. Where energy companies are obliged to allow third parties authorized by households to manage the switch for them,” he adds.

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