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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 Akros just raised $2.3

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From Dorm Room to Dominating the Finance and Tech World: A Deep Dive with Michael Mills, CEO of…

Jason Malki

We believe that the research and data analysis methods used by other funds are fundamentally flawed. Thus, our inaugural step was to devise a unique research process, which led to a distinctive data-analytics technique. Beyond his entrepreneurial pursuits, he is an avid reader and a dedicated family man.

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

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Since open banking requires that banks make valuable data available via APIs, it is leading to a revolution in the way that small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) are funded — one in which data, and not hard capital, is the most important factor driving fintech success. Open banking and data freedom.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost.

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

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But dabbling as an investor evidently has not stopped him from wanting to get hands-on too — as one of two co-founders for Neko Health (the other being Hjalmar Nilsonne, whose prior startup focused on energy data analysis).

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3 strategies for elevating brand authority in 2021

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When we teamed up with Semrush to explore keyword search data in 2020 related to marketing goals , brand awareness and authority showed steady upward trends. Are there peers in your industry who are looking for quotes for their content? More posts by this contributor. 2 strategies for creating top-of-funnel marketing content.

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With $21M in funding, Code Ocean aims to help researchers replicate data-heavy science

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Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the process of peer review and replication of research. Certainly there’s an air of “Too many options? Try this one!”