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Once a key driver of global venture activity, fintech investment slows around the world

TechCrunch

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. While companies around the world turned to software during the pandemic to ensure that they could keep operating , accelerating the digital transformatio

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[Tala in Manilla Standard] TALA’s new GM brings data-driven solutions to address Filipino’s need for financial access

OurCrowd

Global fintech platform TALA welcomes its new General Manager, Donald Evangelista, whose expertise in data-driven innovation, business strategy, and digital transformation will be integral to the company’s mission of bringing financial freedom and inclusivity to more Filipinos, specifically the underbanked. Read more here. The post [Tala in Manilla Standard] TALA’s new GM brings data-driven solutions to address Filipino’s need for financial access appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Microsoft’s layoffs, Airlift’s shutdown and Lofi Girl’s unplanned study break

TechCrunch

Hey, everyone! Welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we recap the most read TechCrunch stories from the last seven days. Want it in your inbox? Sign up here! The most read story on the site this week was, once again, unfortunately, about layoffs — this time at Microsoft. While the company plans to grow its headcount in the months ahead, for now it’s cutting “less than 1%” of its 180,000-person workforce as it focuses on “realigning business groups and role

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Rocks, Pebbles, Sand: How to implement in practice

A Smart Bear: Longform

This complete work-prioritization framework builds on the simplistic "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" analogy, adding the details you need in the real world.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Empowering a new wave of health tech startups — with data

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Spotting new trends is one of my favorite parts of my job. But I like it even more when several trends converge into a transformative wave. That’s exactly what’s happening in health tech right now, as the sector benefits not only from the rise of open data, but also from the democratizat

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