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

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Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. Fraud data, mobile money data, government data queried against national ID systems, AML, PEP screening checks, sanction screening, both global and local KYB business verification data.

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Backbone nabs $14M for supply chain software inspired by mesh networks

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Vic Patil thinks the solution lies in a “mesh” — specifically what he calls a “supply mesh,” inspired by the way wireless mesh networks function. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017. ” Building a supply chain backbone.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

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Did you get hacked in 2017? In a time when metadata is used by governments to kill their adversaries , and Internet service providers are allowed to sell their customers’ Internet usage to the highest bidder, a good virtual private network goes a long way towards hiding your traffic from surveillance of all kinds.

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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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BrainQ raises $40M to transform stroke patient rehabilitation with its home therapy device

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And in fact when I spoke with BrainQ’s founder Yotam Drechsler, he reminded me of the last time we’d talked — back in 2017, at which time I “expressed strong skepticism.” The resulting system could be the biggest improvement to stroke therapy in decades or more.

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Singapore-based TreeDots gets $11M Series A to cut food waste in Asia

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TreeDots was founded in 2017 as a surplus food marketplace for F&B businesses, before it expanded its business to include social commerce, too. The increased network density allows for decreased logistics costs and lower emissions.”. The startup says its gross merchandise volume (GMV) has grown more than 4x year-over-year.

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5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021

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1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. Vehicle intelligence systems capable of running and reporting millions of autonomous fault checks per day. 2: First custom-designed shared scooters released (fall 2018).