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Jakarta-based investment app Pluang raises $55M led by Accel

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The app is also launching a new features that will users to invest in fractional U.S. Affordability is an incredibly important thing to address for our new retail investors,” said co-founder and co-CEO Claudia Kolonas. . Indonesia has high rates of savings and relatively low rates of retail investing, but that is quickly changing.

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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

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“Ensuring you have a deep understanding of your partners’ business, taking extreme ownership of challenges, and being vulnerable are all tenants of building tight partnerships,” observes Andrew Palmer, CIO for global retail markets at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Failing to align IT and business interests gradually erodes hard-earned trust. “It

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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

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In online learning, adaptive content personalizes education to individual needs, while in thoughtful, intelligent retail, automated shelves use real-time data to monitor stock levels, creating a seamless shopping experience. He is currently a senior advisor at WVE. federal agencies.

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Pledge raises $4.5M seed round to build a carbon-measurement and removal API

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Plus, smaller companies want to access high-quality carbon credits, but calculate their impact at a product, services and transactional level, and be able to purchase a fraction of a carbon credit rather than a very inaccurate “scheme.”. There is very little transparency around carbon offsets. It’s now raised a $4.5

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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

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Also investing in the round is Sir Terry Leahy, previously the CEO of Tesco, the largest British retailer. It can, for instance, allow coaches to replay key moments from a game, even modeling different outcomes based on player positioning. He’s joined by Hayden Ball, co-founder and CTO, a firmware and cloud infrastructure expert.

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Acrew Capital, Jeff Bezos back Colombia-based proptech La Haus’ $100M debt, equity round

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Jerónimo Uribe (CEO), Rodrigo Sánchez-Ríos (president), Tomás Uribe (chief growth officer) and Santiago Garcia (CTO) founded the company after Jerónimo and Tomas met Sánchez-Ríos at Stanford University. and often at far worse terms. .

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This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’

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Upon completing graduate school, he began working as investment banker at Goldman Sachs and then as a financial advisor for pro athletes for NBA stars Chris Paul and Stephen Curry as well as Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman. . from Columbia Business School so that he could work in the field.

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