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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

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James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Today, the age of corporate social justice is dawning. The individual we surfaced had no fashion experience and limited retail experience. That, too, leads to homogeneity.

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

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The company claims that with its platform, developers can “configure in hours, integrate in days, and go from idea to full stack deployment in as little as three weeks.” . But Productfy, unlike many other BaaS companies, is not just focused on developers. Today, they still have to have an engineering team to do that.

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Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

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Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Another publication stated the founders had not been reporting to the board, its representatives and shareholders during on-site in-person due diligence for a potential merger. .

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

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The startup’s history is tied to places representative of San Francisco: The founding team worked out of Peet’s Coffee on Mission Street for a few months, then crashed at a penthouse lounge near the 4th and King Caltrain station, followed by a tiny office and then a slightly bigger one in the Flatiron building near Market Street.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

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Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT. Urban Innovation Fund is a 100% woman-owned firm and 77% of the companies it backs have had a woman or a person of color on the founding team.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

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the Blossom Finance team realized that the market there for Islamic finance was very small, said Martin. For example, Indonesia’s National Islamic Finance Committee is focused on developing Islamic finance and the country’s Islamic economy. After initially soft-launching in the U.S.,

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What is Cloud Adoption and Why is it Important? | iTexico

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A variety of industries benefit from cloud adoption, including healthcare, marketing and advertising, retail, finance, and education. Retail: A successful e-commerce strategy requires a sound Internet strategy. Retail: A successful e-commerce strategy requires a sound Internet strategy. Who Needs Cloud Adoption – and Why?

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