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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. The two built a prototype workspace that sales teams could use to define and execute a repeatable sales process. Accord’s UI.

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6 VCs explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech

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He thinks that early use cases may center on customer service, but is certain that more will follow. Every time a big name enters insurance, there is always a mix of skepticism from incumbents and a reminder that change is needed. And their huge customer base could be a competitive edge. They own a lot of data on their customers.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

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How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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Telemedico gets $6.6M to grow the reach of its digital health SaaS

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Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly , have racked up plenty of growth during the pandemic as demand for remote consultations (and other types of support) has accelerated sectoral uplift. Expanding supported languages is part of that plan.

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Pina Earth gets seed backing to grow sustainable forestry carbon credits

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The startup is using AI modelling to predict how climate change will affect the future growth of forests, combined with remote data capture to monitor customers’ projects and verify improvements to forests — to boost the quality of carbon credits. Are carbon offsets b t? A renowned climate expert weighs in.

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Mendel raises $18M to tease out data structure from medicine’s disparate document trove

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It’s also going to be using the funding to hire more talent — technical and support — for its two offices, in San Jose, California and Cairo, Egypt. Mendel has created a unique and seamless solution for healthcare organizations to automatically make sense of their clinical data using AI.

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

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So it’s certainly notable that Neko’s service launches with human doctors very much in the mix.) Neko will obviously need proper legal bases for each and every proposed use of users’ health data, which EU law classes as sensitive data — requiring the highest bar of explicit consent for processing.

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