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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Afroricas creates content on finance management, social networking, careers, and leadership to support black women in their personal and professional development. Luxia Labs offers services in architectural and technical design to real estate developers. GobData provides the only app to include salaries and public purchases.

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Julie Gerdeman, Everstream’s CEO, says that the fresh capital will be put toward product development, hiring and customer success efforts. The platform combines data based on supply chain interactions with AI and analytics to generate strategic risk scores, assessed at the material, supplier and facility location level.

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With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning

TechCrunch

Allowing third parties access to the data held at banks will allow the true financial position of SMEs to be assessed, many for the first time. At its most fundamental level, open banking refers to the process of using APIs to open up consumers’ financial data to third parties. Open-banking models raise a number of challenges.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

These engagements went well and he came highly referred by my friend Gary Swart who runs oDesk. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis.

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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

TechCrunch

XYZ says it has already backed 22 startups whose founders came out of the data analysis company, including most notably, Anduril , Lucky Palmer’s defense tech startup. You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it.

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Your Startup's Competitive Advantage

Tomasz Tunguz

A better chat experience ; a data modeling layer for data analysis, near-instant transcription of expenses. By developing a brand that resonates with customers, that creates a category, and that sufficiently differentiates a business from its competitors, a startup can create a lasting competitive advantage.

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AI Jobs to be Done in Life Sciences

Andreessen Horowitz

However, it’s crucial to recognize that solely counting the number of approved AI-enabled medicines is a lagging indicator of success, overlooking the expanse of treatments still in development (and the long time lag due to clinical trials). How does this future get realized?