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

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Luis Villatoro Villaherrera, El Salvador, founder of Gobdata/ TRACODA , the first organization in El Salvador using data analysis to create transparency. This information enables users to cross-reference and verify data and thus have a more comprehensive overall vision. The YLAI Fellowship Program is funded by the U.S.

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

TechCrunch

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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Coalesce lands fresh capital to transform data at ‘enterprise scale’

TechCrunch

Petrossian met Coalesce’s other co-founder, Satish Jayanthi, at WhereScape, where the two were responsible for solving data warehouse problems for large organizations. (In In computing, a “data warehouse” refers to systems used for reporting and data analysisanalysis usually germane to business intelligence.)

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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. If the U.S.

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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. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. I knew his as he considered becoming a VC and we talked a lot about how it was going for me in my early years.

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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. Dropbox refer-a-friend. That’s why it’s critical to identify and focus on your startup’s competitive advantage. Product improvements are common startup differentiators.

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