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Mexico’s Mendel secures $35M to tackle LatAm’s corporate spend management problem

TechCrunch

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. Mendel says its software gives finance teams a way to manage card transactions in real time, set granular spend rules and track spending from a central dashboard.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

TechCrunch

But Salient notes in its report that regulatory frameworks governing this space, especially e-pharmacy activities, have evolved since last year. There’s been an improvement on the former: 58% of innovators that raised funding in the last 12 months cited Africa-led investors as a source of financing.

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DynamoFL aims to bring privacy-preserving AI to more industries

TechCrunch

But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service. The startup has four employees currently, with plans to hire 10 by the end of the year.)

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The Common Characteristics of Successful Freemium Companies

Tomasz Tunguz

This is the framework I’ve seen work well for freemium startups. Because the freemium model relies on customers to educate themselves, freemium is best used as distribution advantage in established markets with incumbents who bear large customer-acquisition costs. Is there a common characteristic of successful freemium companies?

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An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3

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What’s your web3 strategy? Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. More posts by this contributor. can repair the attention-driven digital economy.

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

Andreessen Horowitz

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” Each organization’s culture around these questions is different.

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It’s holiday season for tech unicorns

TechCrunch

Now we’re very much a data-driven, thesis-driven outbound firm, where we’re reaching out to entrepreneurs soon after they’ve started their companies or gotten seed financing. I think that’s what’s required to build a relationship and the conviction, because financings are happening so fast.

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