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

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Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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AI is coming to your Bing and Google searches, Apple’s M2 chip and Super Bowl streaming

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And on Found , Darrell and Becca talked to Keta Burke-Williams, the founder and CEO of direct-to-consumer fragrance company Ourside, about what got her interested in disrupting the behemoth — and outdated — fragrance industry. Get all the details here. If you’re not, consider signing up.

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

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The investment was AfricInvest’s first involvement in an AI startup, a decision based on InstaDeep’s founders selling a global vision to the Pan-African private equity firm. When this happens, the CEO says he hopes that founders and investors reinvest back into the space, something InstaDeep and AfricInvest intend to act on moving forward. “I

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Extra Crunch roundup: TC Mobility recaps, Nubank EC-1, farewell to browser cookies

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Early-stage founders, usually first-timers, often tie themselves in knots as they try to project the qualities they hope investors are seeking. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. What, exactly, are investors looking for? Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. In the process, they’re betting that innovative approaches to solving those problems will not just create returns but create disruptions and innovations that spill over into adjacent sectors.

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Bright Cellars lands more funding to personalize its subscription-based wine collection

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“We’re optimizing wine like you might optimize a more digital product,” says co-founder and CEO, Richard Yau, a San Francisco native whose startup entered into a regional accelerator program early on and stayed, though the company is now largely decentralized. The company has now raised roughly $20 million altogether).

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Why TransUnion led blockchain fintech Spring Labs’ $30M Series B

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A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. Spring Labs founder and CEO Adam Jiwan told TechCrunch that the two companies’ recent partnership evolved out of a series of discussions that began a couple of years ago. “We