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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

TechCrunch

As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. Miscommunication and poor project data accounts for 48% of all rework on U.S. Lack of data transparency : Manual data collection and data entry are still common on construction sites.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

TechCrunch

Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software. To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites.

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

TechCrunch

Then in 2019, the state of technology was such that Li and co-founders Daniel Chen and Jeremy Huang could create data extraction capabilities through the use of artificial intelligence-driven software. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

TechCrunch

In reality, AI is essential for Africa’s success in the 21st century, and the reason is that it is the transformational technology of our time; I think you’ll see so many examples these days from GPT and beyond of its disruptive potential,” Beguir, who is half-Tunisian and half-French continued. That was crazy.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University recently wrote , “cities need to organize economic stabilization teams… to offer short-term, focused relief until the federal government can offer some direct relief.” As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it.

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Cribl raises $150M to beat back rival observability tools

TechCrunch

Cribl’s list of competitors includes Observe , Edge Delta , Monte Carlo , Lightrun and the well-financed Chronosphere. A Gartner Hype Cycle late last year characterized interest in observability solutions as at the “peak of inflated expectations,” with a market forecast for “cloudy with a high chance of disruption.”

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3 Marketing Tips for Small Business Owners to Succeed in 2021

Smart Hustle Magazine

2021 is all about establishing new relationships and routines that were disrupted in 2020. Have you started escalating customer data collection as a priority yet? In this day and age, “customer data” has to go beyond the email address. Small Business Financing Is Bouncing Back From The Coronavirus Pandemic.