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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

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Founded out of Stockholm in 2017, Mavenoid works with hardware and consumer electronics companies including HP, Husqvarna, and Jabra, serving to automate technical support and onboarding for customers spanning everything from printers and ovens, to electric scooters and industrial equipment. ” Technical support. Mavenoid chatbot.

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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

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Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Fubini helped cofound the outfit with a handful of others.) In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check.

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Pinwheel raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation for its income verification APIs

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Historically, systems for providing such data are inefficient and clunky, a problem Pinwheel’s cofounders recognized when they were working on a startup that helped companies provide pre-tax benefits to their employees. . billion API company Plaid, known for enabling bank account connectivity for fintechs. . “We’re

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Nigeria’s ThankUCash secures $5.3M to build infrastructure for cashback, deals and BNPL services

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CEO Simeon Ononobi started ThankUCash with Suraj Supekar, Madonna Ononobi and Harshal Gandole, who act as a chief technical officer, chief operating officer and senior vice president of engineering, respectively. Some companies such as banks have launched cashback programs via debit cards to users in the past. ThankUCash cofounders.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

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Gaudin has a financial industry background, having worked at JP Morgan as a developer and Deutsche Bank as a software team leader before cofounding SonarSource. Freddy Mallet, SonarSource’s second cofounder, was a project architect at E-Trade and CTO at agtech startup Hortis.

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

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The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. “We conducted several successful pilots with banks and insurance companies,” Danilos said. Wojciech Danilo and Sylwia Brodacka are well-acquainted with the struggle.

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This crypto surveillance startup — ‘We’re bomb sniffing dogs’ — just raised Series A funding

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We talked with Solidus’s New York-based cofounder and CEO Asaf Meir — who was himself one of those former Goldman engineers — about the company late last week. Pictured above: Seated left to right is CTO Praveen Kumar and CEO Asaf Meir. Fast forward and today Solidus employs 30 people, has raised $23.75