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How African startups raised investments in 2020

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It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. Although 2020 didn’t witness the series of mammoth deals in 2019 and didn’t reach the $2 billion mark, it proved to be a good year for acquisitions. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43 Briter Bridges pegged total 2020 VC for African startups at $1.31

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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

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Top 20 ML/AI Influencers in 2020. His expertise lies in artificial neural networks. Furthermore, he has authored Neural Network Architectures for Artificial Intelligence. He is the inventor of generative adversarial networks, an ML technique that is being used by Facebook. Adam Coates. Follow @adampaulcoates.

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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Top 20 ML/AI Influencers in 2020. His expertise lies in artificial neural networks. Furthermore, he has authored Neural Network Architectures for Artificial Intelligence. He is the inventor of generative adversarial networks, an ML technique that is being used by Facebook. Adam Coates. Follow @adampaulcoates.

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Strava raises $110 million, touts growth rate of 2 million new users per month in 2020

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Already in 2020, Strava has seen significant growth. The company claims that it has added over 2 million new “athletes” (how Strava refers to its users) per month in 2020. The funding will be used to propel the development of new features, and expand the company’s reach to cover even more users.

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Upgrading Data Security in a Crisis

Speaker: M.K. Palmore, VP Field CSO (Americas), Palo Alto Networks

During this session, MK Palmore, the Field CSO (Americas) for Palo Alto Networks and a former public-sector executive, will walk through the difficulties of crisis planning execution in the midst of an organization's digital changes. Thursday September 10th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT. And much more!

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Forward Networks raises $50M for digital twin technology to help model, manage and secure complex enterprise networks

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Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security and other complicated architectures that might have a number of components working (or malfunctioning as the case may be) in tandem.

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Cisco to acquire startup Valtix to beef up its multicloud network security

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As a strategic investor in Valtix since 2020, Cisco supports Valtix’s commitment to simplify network security, protecting workloads no matter which cloud they are created or consumed in,” Cisco security business group SVP and chief product officer Raj Chopra wrote in a blog post announcing the deal. Valtix launched in 2020.

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