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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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Image Credits: Sesamm Founded out of Paris in 2014, Sesamm has amassed a fairly impressive roster of clients from across the financial realm specifically, including U.S. Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems.

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Taiwanese startup WritePath’s AI tech speeds up financial disclosure translation

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WritePath make the process faster and scalable by combining its AI tech with human translators. TechCrunch first covered WritePath back in 2014 when it was an essay editing service for college applicants, technical writers and academic researchers. Fund managers can leverage ESG-related data to generate insights.

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5 tips for switching to skills-based hiring

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Hiring in the IT industry has traditionally relied on reviewing a candidate’s experience and education, with less focus on specific skillsets. As you identify and categorize skills, it’s important to review job descriptions as well to ensure they’re up-to-date and don’t include any unnecessary skills or vague requirements.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

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“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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Energy leader Petrobras sails toward sustainability with new supply chain solution

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A battle against complexity > The use of spreadsheets and other antiquated methods had given way to a slow, inconsistent, and difficult-to-map-and-analyze approval system.​Without And with a robust technological foundation in place, Petrobras is poised to make significant strides towards achieving its sustainability objectives.

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

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‘High conviction, low volume’ Playfair, for its part, seeks out founders “outside of dominant tech hubs,” as well as founders working on projects that may run more tangential to where the main hype and “buzzy-ness” exists. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .

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Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M

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Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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