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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. Bam and co-founder and CTO Dr. Barbara Rosario started the company in 2015 and raised a $2.1

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Periscope (2015-2020).

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. The company recorded a 130% CAGR between 2017 to 2021.

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Helion raises $2.2B to commercialize fusion energy

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Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. Animation courtesy of Helion Energy.

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Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform

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San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. .” AI-powered translations. A robust market.

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Zocdoc founder returns with Shadow, an app that finds lost dogs

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and millions of those end up in shelters where they aren’t always reunited with their owners, due to their lack of identification or a microchip. technology to help dog owners, in particular. technology to match the photograph of the missing dogs to possible matches from nearby shelters or the web. It then uses A.I.