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MVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital Sep 15, 2022

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Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe.

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CoverSelf’s customizable platform simplifies the healthcare claims system Sep 15, 2022

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The U.S healthcare system is infamously labyrinthine, with a lengthy claims process that results in frequent errors and high administrative costs.

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Cultured meat startup Prolific Machines unveils its ‘Henry Ford approach’ to cell growth Sep 14, 2022

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Its technology is a way to grow and control cells without the need for any of those expensive recombinant proteins for cell production.
Cultured meat startup Prolific Machines unveils its ‘Henry Ford approach’ to cell growth by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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How WhiteLab Genomics is using AI to aid gene and cell therapy development Sep 14, 2022

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French biotech company WhiteLab Genomics has raised $10 million in funding for an AI platform designed to aid the discovery and development of genomic therapies.

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Industrial IoT startup Litmus Automation bags new cash to grow its product Sep 13, 2022

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In recent years, a cottage industry has sprung up around the industrial internet of things (IoT) landscape — and the data generated by it.

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Kenya’s HotelOnline acquires hospitality software company HotelPlus Sep 13, 2022

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HotelOnline, a Kenyan-based travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries.

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Diveplane lands $25M to grow its MLOps platform Sep 12, 2022

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In 2017, three entrepreneurs — Chris Hazard, Mike Resnick and Mike Capps — came together to launch a platform for building AI and machine learning tools geared toward the enterprise.

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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform Sep 12, 2022

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Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage.

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Stack.io banks $2.7M to teach teens, parents about crypto Sep 09, 2022

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The app was designed with Gen Z in mind, a generation that will grow up with the blockchain and most likely own some kind of digital assets.
Stack.io banks $2.7M to teach teens, parents about crypto by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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Lucidity keeps cloud block storage neat, tidy and cost-efficient Sep 09, 2022

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Cloud storage is expensive (especially in this economy), but many companies often over-provision, cutting their full return on investment. Lucidity was created to help them manage block storage more efficiently with a set of automated tools.

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