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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

TechCrunch

One of them was Orca AI which was developing a collision-avoidance system for ships, and it was this company from a sea of samey startups that Playfair ended up investing in — both in its 2019 pre-seed funding round, and its follow-on Series A round two years later. There just wasn’t enough differentiation.”

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. Faster deals, less diligence: The African startup market mirrors its larger rivals.

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

For teams dealing with loads of technical debt, microservices offer a path to the promised land. Higher frequency releases and increased collaboration between dev and ops is exciting, but it’s important to stay diligent. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. That doesn’t mean it will be easy though.

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Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-month-old startup that wants to help fintechs better manage fraud risk

TechCrunch

Working together at Uber’s risk team, Yifu Diao and Ming Fang came to realize that with the hypergrowth the company was seeing came fraud challenges. Diao’s first project at the company after starting in 2014 was building a rules engine called Mastermind to fight fraud. It was making 10,000 decisions per second by the time I left.”.

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Endgame Announces Advisory Board with Commercial and Federal Technology Expertise

CTOvision

Arlington, VA – February 20, 2014 – Endgame, Inc., Money has more than 50 years of management and engineering experience with the defense electronics industry and intelligence community, specializing in the design and development of intelligence collection and analysis capabilities and airborne tactical reconnaissance systems.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

The importance of research, due-diligence and marketplace understanding surface. Grooming – The team let you down. Most people and organizations fail due to never having control over certain ingredients, improper planning and the inability to change. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.