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Titan nabs $12.5M for ‘next generation’ investment management

TechCrunch

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. They’ve since built an operating system aimed at giving “ everyday investors access to the types of investment products and experiences that they’ve historically been locked out of.”

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

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It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. And as was hinted at back in 2017, automakers are looking to make the ‘in-cabin experience’ a real thing.

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MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

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.” Panuganty’s background includes time at Sun Microsystems and Bell Labs, working on their operating systems before becoming an entrepreneur. The second was analytics company Drastin, which got acquired by Splunk in 2017 , and the third was the AI-driven educational platform SelectQ, which Thinker acquired this April.

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Stuck with Windows 7? Here’s a security game plan

The Parallax

Last week, Microsoft’s Windows 7, once the go-to operating system of nearly 60 percent of all computers , reached the company’s designated end of the road for security patches. Microsoft said in a statement that after supporting the operating system for 10 years, the company is moving on. .

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Yana’s mental health tool for Spanish speakers nears 5 million users

TechCrunch

In 2017, when Campos was in her early 20s, she learned to program and created a system to help manage her mental health. It started as a personal project, but as she talked to more people, Campos realized that many others might benefit from the system as well. “We We also want to include a community inside our application.”.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu.

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

TechCrunch

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. Before the acquisition, Smile Identity had just crossed over 60 million verifications. Meanwhile, Appruve processed up to 100,000 verifications monthly, Damalie disclosed in the interview.

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