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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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Daasity investing $15M in data so consumer brands can do more with it

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Daasity , an e-commerce analytics and data company, secured $15 million in Series A funding as it continues developing its approach to helping consumer brands better leverage their customer data to make smarter decisions. It will also be working on more personalized customer data. This gives the company $20.7

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

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provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience.

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Indonesian aquaculture startup DELOS raises $8m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

Register DELOS, an Indonesian aquaculture-tech company , has raised $8 million in Seed extension financing co-led by Centauri, a collaborative fund between MDI Ventures and KB Investment Co., and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures.

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Pareto thinks it shouldn’t be so hard to collect lead-generation data

TechCrunch

However, when she began to see patterns in projects more focused on data collection and processing, she and her team decided to pivot to leverage Pareto’s operations teams to analyze data and build more technology to automate the process of data collection and analysis and to create a human-in-the-loop virtual analyst system.

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June makes product analytics more accessible

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It lets you access data much more quickly.”. Segment acts as the data collection and data repository for your analytics. After that, you can start playing with your data in June. Eventually, June plans to diversify its data sources. They didn’t rely on analytics to make educated decisions.

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Veteran digital health pros found virtual eating disorder care startup

TechCrunch

Arise is looking to provide education, care and long-term support from licensed providers and personalized care plans for those afflicted with any disordered eating. D’Ambra and Zhang previously worked in digital health spaces before deciding to found Arise, a New York–based virtual eating disorder care company.

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