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Merging Airbnb and the traditional hotel model, Mexico City’s Casai raises $23 million to grow in Latin America

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With travel and tourism rising across Latin America, Casai , a startup combining Airbnb single unit rentals with hotel room amenities, has raised $23 million to expand its business across Latin America. “I wanted to define a product from a consumer angle,” said Barawid. “I wanted this to exist.”

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Backed by YC, Vendease is building Amazon Prime for restaurants in Africa

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Some months later they saw a hotel manager openly complain to a vendor about the unsteady supply of produce the hotel was getting. At the time, Kara, the CEO, and Fayankin, the COO, held the respective positions at a Pan-African media consulting company called RED Media. It sparked an idea in the founders’ minds.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

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The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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Alloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt

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More recently, Hazlehurst served as head of Uber Money, chief operating officer at Postmates, senior director of product management at Google, CEO and board member of Google Payments Corporation and chief product officer at Yodlee. More hotel raffle details here. Book your room today.

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Spend management space sees a large raise, and layoffs, in the same week

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I also got a demo from CTO and co-founder Ilan Twig of just how Navan is using ChatGPT within its new offering, which is essentially a CFO dashboard, the company says. It was very interesting to see firsthand how its chatbot, Ava, works. You may agree.

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National Cyber Security Hall of Fame Announces 2015 Inductees

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14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame has released the names of five innovators who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at its award ceremony on Thursday, October 29 , at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. BALTIMORE , Sept.

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Executive Round Table with Kent Barner and Jay Reed

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At CIO Suite, Kent’s team (2 resources) offers four core services: IT Solutions Health Check Fractional CIO Services (i.e. His experience includes CIO roles at Pillar Hotels and Resorts, Omni Hotels, and Aimbridge Hospitality, coupled with client services and IT advisory roles at Centrada Solutions and Noble Royalties, Inc.,