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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

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When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S., The Americans of Nigerian descent toured across 20 states and studied different value chains for crops spotting inefficiencies that could be solved by technology. had not figured out product-market fit. Then the $1.5

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This startup wants to use technology to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

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One result of this continued migration is a steady surge in housing prices due to increased demand and low inventory that dropped to nearly zero earlier this year. CEO Nikki Pechet and Atomic managing partner Jack Abraham founded the company in 2017 after Abraham lost his home to wildfires.

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Phytoform plants $5.7M into climate-resistant crop technology

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million in funding, led by Eniac Ventures, to scale its artificial intelligence genome editing technology aimed at improving crops. Phytoform was started by William Pelton and Nicolas Kral in 2017 while the two were finishing up their PhD degrees. The biotechnology company with headquarters in London and Boston announced $5.7

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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HackerOne buys YC-backed PullRequest to add code review to bug-squashing platform

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PullRequest , a five year old startup that came out of Y Combinator in 2017 , helps software developers by providing an external code review team. PullRequest expands that capability by having a group of qualified code reviewers on call, who can detect a bug even before it gets into production. The deal closed last week.

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John Deere buys autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics

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The agricultural technology giant announced today that it’s set to acquire Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million. The Bay Area-based firm, which specializes in autonomous farming heavy machinery, was founded in 2017. The startup gains a lot of resources from its massive new owner, and its new owner adds some new tech to its portfolio.

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Klarity lands $18M to read scores of documents so you don’t have to

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Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured data. Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT.