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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

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Deepak Jain, 49, of Potomac, was the CEO of an information technology services company (referred to in the indictment as Company A) that provided data center services to customers, including the SEC,” the US DOJ said in a statement. From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7

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

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tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. Insider, which was co-founded in Istanbul in 2012, has now raised $772.1 Founded in 2018, the company has raised $1.2 billion, per Crunchbase. and AI product development.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

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was co-founded in 2012 by a group including co-CEOs Scott Uknes and Eric Ward, who have known each other for over 30 years. His firm has an impact fund focused on the future of food and began investing in alternative proteins in 2016 before expanding that to delivery systems in agriculture technology, he said.

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Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation

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Code review is a key step during the software development process — it’s when people check a program by viewing and reading parts of the source code. But despite its importance, not all developers are pleased with the way traditional code reviews work. Image Credits: Codacy.

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Lawmatics raises $2.5M to help lawyers market themselves

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CEO Matt Spiegel used to practice law himself, and he told me that even though tech companies have a wide range of marketing tools to choose from, “lawyers have not been able to adopt them,” because they need a product that’s tailored to their specific needs. ThoughtRiver nabs $10M to speed up deal-making with AI contract review.

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The Opportunities Costanoa Ventures Sees In Vertical AI 

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From its first $100 million fund raised in 2012, the firm has built its practice in enterprise cloud-based services leveraging data and analytics. The firm incubated Vannevar Labs in 2019, before defense tech and AI were as popular as they are today. Pick things that matter — both technologies that matter and problems that matter.”

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Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained

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The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. Innovations around mobile money and digital payments have allowed for the processing of payments online and offline through USSD or STK commands, over apps or using NFC technology.

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