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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

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The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. Assent’s compliance platform provides centralized access to supply chain data for use by teams across a given company. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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Fintech companies must balance the pursuit of profit against ethical data usage

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Fintech holds the potential to fundamentally transform the financial services industry, enabling financial institutions (FIs) to operate more efficiently and deliver superb user experiences (UX). Consumers looking to digitize their finances must heed caution before they break up with traditional banks and run into the arms of Big Tech.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” “Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials.

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Hydrosat closes another $10M in funding for ground temperature analytics product

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“For a lot of our use cases, in environmental monitoring, in agriculture and forestry, it’s very beneficial to have that because we have that data stored in the library for retrieval, so that it can be used either that day or the next week or the next year, anytime in the future,” Hydrosat CEO Pieter Fossel said in a recent interview.

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When grandma falls, SafelyYou is there to catch her (on video)

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Also participating in the financing is SCAN Group, a mission-driven organization dedicated to keeping seniors healthy and independent. “We have more [in-care home video fall] data than anyone’s ever had here. That is what enables the AI to run with such high accuracy. That enables our product in two ways.

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13 Best Practices for Financial Reporting in Startups

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To ensure the accuracy of financial reporting, it is imperative to establish a uniform data collection process that tracks the relevant data consistently. Create a dedicated bookkeeping schedule to uphold that consistency, preventing weeks or months of data from falling by the wayside.

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CrowdForce raises $3.6M to increase access to cash for underserved communities in Nigeria

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The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. The company said it will use part of the capital to expand its team, geographical operations and marketing to increase its 7,000-strong active agent network three-fold this year.