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Israel’s retrain.ai closes $13M to use AI to understand early signals in the changing jobs market

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Israel’s retrain.ai , which uses AI and machine learning to read job boards at scale and gain insight into where the job market is going, has closed a $9 million Series A led by Square Peg. With technology eating into the traditional labor market, retrain.ai 406 Ventures participating), that means it’s raised a total of $13 million.

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Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets

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Udemy is also on the way to the public markets. It was founded in 2007, per Crunchbase data, making it nearly old enough to secure a learner’s permit to drive in the United States. Rent the Runway is expected to price its IPO later today and trade tomorrow morning, provided that all things go as planned. Allbirds, too.

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Will Brazil’s Roaring 20s see the rise of early-stage startups?

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Since 2007, the number of publicly listed companies in Brazil has decreased from 400 to just a little over 300. Growth versus value: Revert the shrinking market and internet companies. As a result, companies that focused on the domestic market or on growth were never quite embraced by local investors.

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Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations

TechCrunch

Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche , it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. Although content marketing is evolving, as with any technology, the old doesn’t simply go away.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

The MongoDB development happened when the organization was putting all force into developing a Microsoft Azure-type PaaS in 2007. Since September 2021, MongoDB Inc has had a market cap of over $32.79 It made MongoDB the most valuable firm by the market cap as per the data. MongoDB History.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of November: xAI And Anthropic Raise Billions Again

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The Austin, Texas-based startup was founded in 2007 in Austria. The IT infrastructure company said it will use the fresh cash for M&A activities and entering new markets globally. Tricentis , $1.3B, DevOps: Tricentis got a $1.3 billion investment from private equity firm GTCR valuing the software testing startup at $4.5

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Fighting the ‘copycat’ stigma in SaaS: 3 tricks that work

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He was formerly a software developer at Google and Microsoft, and now oversees HackerEarth's sales, marketing and general operations. Whatever idea you have for a platform that solves an “unaddressed market need,” it’s almost a given there’s a team somewhere working on something similar.