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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. Accord was co-founded in early 2020 by brothers Ross and Ryan Rich. DealPoint , Sales Hacker ) to develop similar sales orchestration offerings.

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

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Its weather-related services can be as simple as helping utilities predict short-term demand for energy, or as complex as advising maritime transporters on routing ocean-going cargo ships around developing storms. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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Orca Security raises $210M Series C at a unicorn valuation

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The promise of Orca Security is that it can not only cover a company’s entire range of cloud assets but that it is also able to help security teams prioritize the risks they need to focus on. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. I’m super excited about that future.”

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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

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In its 10 year history, Playfair has invested in around 100 companies, including well-established unicorns such as Stripe, and Mapillary , a startup that exited to Facebook back in 2020. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. . There just wasn’t enough differentiation.”

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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. This is a validation of our role in transforming the banking industry through the development of innovative, convenient and more inclusive payment solutions for everyone,” he said in a statement.

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Extra Crunch roundup: A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more

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Noting that “the public markets appear to be even more risk-on than the private world in 2020,” Alex pegged the number at “just a hair under $10 billion.” Earlier this week, Autodesk announced its purchase of Spacemaker, a Norwegian firm that develops AI-supported software for urban development.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. For Moncrieff, the conversation was really around ownership, transparency, and cost.

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