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Booz Allen Hamilton launches $100M corporate venture arm focused on early-stage startups

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Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa

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million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. So that’s how the story started.”. Susu founders.

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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

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It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. We are actively working to ensure that individuals regardless of gender, background, race, and place have equitable support to reach their full potential and succeed in entrepreneurship.”.

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

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Yuma’s platform provides ChatGPT-like AI systems that integrate with help desk software, suggesting drafts of replies to customer tickets that are both “relevant and customized to the support agents” (in theory). “ But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support.

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Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

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The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Moussouris, who runs consultancy firm Luta Security, now advises companies and governments on how to talk to hackers and what they need to do to build and improve their vulnerability disclosure programs.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

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And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months. However, the segment is yet to record the type of investments that have poured into B2B retail e-commerce in the previous two years.

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New challenger Ikigai combines digital banking and wealth management

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However, where some more differentiation arguably comes into play is that Ikigai also offers “fully managed, globally diversified investment portfolios” under the wealth section of the app. On banking competitors, Ikigai’s founders argue that existing incumbents and challengers both have “significant” failings.