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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. Diligent has been leading that specific charge for some time now. hospitals were inundated.

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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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John Deere buys autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics

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The Bay Area-based firm, which specializes in autonomous farming heavy machinery, was founded in 2017. Agricultural is one of several robotics categories that have seen a spike in interest in the past year, due to labor shortages that predate but were exacerbated by the global pandemic.

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

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Did you get hacked in 2017? That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things. Tech companies often have extensive privacy policies written in dense legalese, but that doesn’t mean you should do your due diligence about a new product before buying it.

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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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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

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” Mitchell co-launched Valence, which is New York-based, in 2017 with Levi Goertz. But, as with rival performance management systems (e.g., Valence has impressive traction to be sure, with customers including Fortune 500 brands like Coca-Cola, Boston Scientific, Illumina, and Applied Materials.