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Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M

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Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. Diligent has been leading that specific charge for some time now. She noted, in part: It is really just a dramatic shift in labor markets across a lot of different industries.

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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

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As fintech services proliferate across different African markets, the need to have sufficient KYC and identity verification processes in place has intensified amid increasing fraud challenges and more stringent regulatory requirements. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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

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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. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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Atrium (2017-2020). 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.

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Nimble makes the leap to fully automated third-party logistics warehouses

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On one side stand the greenfield folk, who insist that the best possible experience is one built from the ground up, with these automated systems at its core. Founder and CEO Simon Kalouche says that Nimble’s new model wasn’t the goal when the pick and pack robotic automation firm launched in 2017. “It

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PopSQL aims to be a modern data team’s best friend

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But what you often have to do next is save the query somewhere, send it to someone else so they can review it and make sure it’s good or if you make a data table or charts, have an easy way to share that.”. The new funding will enable the company to build both sales and market teams and add to the engineering team. “We’re

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

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Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. When you looked at e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing or P2P payment seven years ago, it was always a fragmented market. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2

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