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Wischoff Ventures closed a second fund of $20 million that will be 'leaning in heavily on B2B.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dropbox today announced that it’s acquired FormSwift, a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized and documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 million in a seed-funding round co-led by Acrew Capital and Boldstart Ventures with participation from Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures and Aviso Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, banks and fintech startups tend not to provide products dedicated to families, specifically, and this has appeared as something of a gap in the market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Businesses often encounter challenges in configuring their customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, whether because of requirements specific to their organization or industry or a lack of institutional technical knowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In countries where English is not a main language, listed companies not only have to deal with financial disclosure regulations, but make sure their investor materials are available in English for global backers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI is an imperfect technology, but one task at which it excels is identifying patterns in vast amounts of data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bondaval, the London-based B2B insurtech that gives credit teams assurance that customers will fulfill their financial obligations, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Talis Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It doesn’t matter what kind of web site it is, the ‘customer journey’ has always been important, otherwise you lose that engagement and the end result can hit the bottom line. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by The Royal Bahamas Police Force following reports that the United States had filed criminal charges against the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and is likely to request his extradition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artificial intelligence is taking over almost every industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For companies aiming toward net zero, tracking scope 3 carbon emissions is a key challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brodmann17, an Israeli computer vision technology startup that developed a novel approach to take on a marketplace dominated by Mobileye, shut down this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After weeks of rumors, Getir has announced that it is acquiring Gorillas. This is a major consolidation deal for the instant grocery delivery space. The Financial Times first reported that Getir has closed the acquisition of its competitor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WeWalk, a U.K.-based startup developing a “smart cane” for visually-impaired people, today announced it has raised £2 million ($2.4 million) in venture funding from several notable institutional and angel investors — this includes Manchester City and German international footballer Ä°lkay GündoÄŸan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Uolo, an Indian edtech platform that works with private K-12 schools to offer online learning programs to middle and low-income families, has raised $22.5 million in a funding round led by UAE-headquartered VC fund Winter Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was to develop a platform to help developers create software for AI-equipped cameras. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Einride today announced a $500 million tranche of financing as it looks to expand its autonomous and electric trucks into new markets globally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rezonate, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based startup that offers an agent-less cloud identity protection platform that aims to help DevOps teams minimize attackers’ opportunities to breach cloud identity and access, is coming out of stealth today and announcing an $8.7 million seed funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OneOrder, Egypt’s supply chain solutions provider for restaurants, has raised $3 million seed funding led by Nclude with participation from A15, and Delivery Hero Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lora DiCarlo, a sextech startup that made headlines in 2019 after being blacklisted from the Consumer Electronics Show, seems to have shut down. The company’s website is offline and reportedly orders have gone unfulfilled for months. TechCrunch has reached out to the eponymous founder for confirmation, but it sure looks like the end of the […]Looks like sextech startup Lora DiCarlo is done for by...

Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An automated status updater for Slack isn’t the only thing Mozilla acquired this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay, a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two months ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had fined 16 Wall Street firms more than $1.1 billion for “widespread recordkeeping failures” regarding maintaining electronic communications, contravening federal securities laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices