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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

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What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. And having a customer base that was primarily consumers also meant potentially less due diligence around how the product worked.

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Lawmatics raises $2.5M to help lawyers market themselves

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ThoughtRiver nabs $10M to speed up deal-making with AI contract review. Spiegel’s had success selling technology to lawyers in the past, with his practice management software startup MyCase acquired by AppFolio in 2012 (AppFolio recently sold MyCase to a variety of funds for $193 million).

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

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tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: This is not the first time Crusoe has made this list. Insider, which was co-founded in Istanbul in 2012, has now raised $772.1 startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented.

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Enable Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference in multi-account environments

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Instead, the system dynamically routes traffic across multiple Regions, maintaining optimal resource utilization and performance. The Amazon Bedrock heuristics-based routing system evaluates available Regions for request fulfillment. With cross-Region inference, developers can alleviate the need to predict demand fluctuations manually.

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Pros, Cons, and Tips for Using AI in L&D Systems

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Giovanni, a data expert, shares practical insights in an episode that sheds light on AI and its role in the business world, and the use of AI in L&D systems. Understanding the AI Landscape Giovanni’s journey in the world of data and AI originated back to 2012 with big data.

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Panorama raises $60M in General Atlantic-led Series C to help schools better understand students

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Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collective, Uncork Capital, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Tao Capital Partners also participated in the financing, which brings the Boston-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $105 million. We chose to because we want to be able to invest in the business.”.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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” Launched in 2012 by Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg, Soci’s platform is designed for organizations that have hundreds — or even thousands — of people managing their marketing across various channels. Yelp) and then automatically responds to those reviews. ” There’s probably some truth to that.

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