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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 timed its last funding round perfectly, scoring $10 million in March of 2020, right before many U.S.

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Beyond the hype: Key components of an effective AI policy

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An AI policy serves as a framework to ensure that AI systems align with ethical standards, legal requirements and business objectives. Algorithmic transparency and explainability AI systems often operate as ‘black boxes,’ making decisions that are difficult to interpret. Providing such clarity builds confidence in AI decision-making.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

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In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since. They also know that the attack surface is increasing and that they need help protecting core systems. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

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Over the years, DTN has bought up several niche data service providers, each with its own IT systems — an environment that challenged DTN IT’s ability to innovate. “We Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”. The merger playbook.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. 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. Essential (2017-2020).

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Butter raises $7M to end ‘accidental’ customer churn due to payment failure

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It was there that he realized there was an astounding number of subscriptions that failed to renew or even go through to begin with due to payment-related issues. The accidental churn is often not just due to problems with renewals, where people get frustrated by failed attempts to charge their credit card, for example. to $5 million.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.