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Qwick raises VC money to match gig workers with hospitality jobs

TechCrunch

Leisure and hospitality workers are quitting at the highest rates of any industry. Seasonality, low pay and monotonous work are among the reasons for the hospitality industry’s churn rate, as well as a perceived lack of career advancement. So what are hospitality businesses to do? Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Boutique hotel tech platform NUMA raises $45M growth financing round led by DN Capital

TechCrunch

Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. We first covered the NUMA Group (then called Cosi) back in 2019 when it raised €5 million for its “full-stack” hospitality alternative to boutique hotels, and then later on when it raised €20 million. Based out of the U.S., It’s raised $529.6

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Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners

American Entrepreneurship

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. and the leading cause of preventable hospitalizations.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon’s new Bedrock cloud service lets developers incorporate generative AI

TechCrunch

million to help developers securely connect software services , Kyle reports. Hotel, but fancier : Romain reports that Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform aimed at hospitality. Finance, meet regulation. Regulation, finance : Ira Lam explores CeFi and DeFi in the face of regulation.

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A Hospitality Entrepreneur Changing How Travelers See the World

Smart Hustle Magazine

Our business model is simple – develop a new destination, establish a resort, support the local villages by providing employment, developing new skills, supporting the local trade, and provide the customer with a true ‘Make In India’ tourism experience. New Age Solutions. About Aditi Balbir, Woman Entrepreneur.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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Nigerian e-health pharmaceutical distribution startup DrugStoc secures $4.4 million Series A funding, embarks on expansion drive

TechCrunch

Chibuzo Opara and Adham Yehia, being all too familiar with the problems of poor pharmaceutical supply chains, are planning to widen the reach of DrugStoc, a e-health drug procurement platform that eliminates these challenges by linking drug companies with institutions such as hospitals and pharmacies, in Nigeria. million series A funding.

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