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Is the modern data stack just old wine in a new bottle?

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Ashish Kakran , principal at Thomvest Ventures , is a product manager/engineer turned investor who enjoys supporting founders with a balance of technical know-how, customer insights, empathy with challenges and market knowledge. Each step of the data analysis process is ripe for disruption. Ashish Kakran. Contributor.

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

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Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Chiratae Ventures and Next47. The result of those major disruptions? “We will not expand into new industries or adjacent product areas,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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Akros Technologies, an AI-powered asset management platform, raises funding from Z Holdings

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In Deloitte’s 2019 report , the firm reveals that AI is transforming the financial ecosystem to reduce costs and make operations more efficient by providing automated insights and alternative data, analysis and risk management. Akros just raised $2.3 co-founder and chief executive officer Kyle Moon said in a statement.

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

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This was a big enough problem for one company to support all of the data analysis and forecasting without having to manually convert the data,” Li told TechCrunch. The idea for Daloopa came to Li five years ago, but he said the data extraction technology was not in place to get it off the ground.

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Decipad wants to help everyone do data modelling

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Decipad , a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. Put simply, it’s building an interactive notebook to help non-technical people do data modelling.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

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In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy

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This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. At the end of last week, venture-backed robo-adviser Wealthfront snuck in an announcement that the deal in which it was to be acquired by Swiss banking giant UBS for $1.4 xoxoxo, Mary Ann.

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