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Nepalese PE firm Team Ventures invests in AI healthtech startup WISEYAK

AsiaTechDaily

Register Nepalese alternative investment firm Team Ventures has invested about $250,000 in artificial intelligence (AI)-based healthtech startup WISEYAK. The startup envisions establishing itself as an AI-based global healthtech company offering innovative healthcare applications to the global marketplace.

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Tokyo-based Startup FLUX Raises $32M in Series B Funding for its No-Code AI Platform

AsiaTechDaily

Register Tokyo-based startup FLUX has secured $32 million in a Series B funding round led by DNX Ventures, a venture capital firm. The company boasts a monthly data collection volume of over 100 terabytes through its services, which is utilized to train and enhance its models.

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Innovation in the Financial Markets: Seventy Years of Hedge Funds

Tomasz Tunguz

Since that era, hedge funds have innovated roughly every decade or so. Using large volumes of data collected by hand in the cocoa markets of Africa for example, econometricians developed models and reshaped investing. And without a doubt, these firms will continue to innovate and push the market forward.

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How Amazon’s continued expansion into healthcare could buoy the sector

TechCrunch

Although those endeavors seem to be bearing fruit, Amazon also had a failed venture, Haven, with Berkshire and JPM that disbanded after multiple internal issues. Amazon just frankly made what I would argue is one of the classic mistakes in innovation,” Aoun said. They’re trying to rebuild the old world.

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8 investors discuss what’s ahead for reproductive health startups in a post-Roe world

TechCrunch

The role venture capital must play in all of this is becoming clearer: There has been a push to fund more reproductive health companies , include healthcare access in ESG investments , and reevaluate the safest places to open a business for women employees. ” Hessie Jones, partner, MATR Ventures. Absolutely!

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Investors discuss how labor shortage is shaking up the construction tech stack

TechCrunch

Construction’s digital transformation journey is only just beginning, and the sector offers a ton of space for innovation. And the overall consensus seems to be that the pandemic was a big boost to innovation as stakeholders realized the need to observe and direct work remotely. .”

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

TechCrunch

Our systems are at a point where it is more productive to work with nature than against it,” said Sanjeev Krishnan, chief investment officer at S2G Ventures. People have been looking at solving these problems in the wrong way,” said Daniela Fernandez, managing partner at Seabird Ventures.