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Headspace Health has acquired Sayana, an AI-powered mental health and wellness company, for an undisclosed amount. Headspace Health says the acquisition of the San Francisco-based company will expand its ability to provide personalized self-care to its users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Foxtrot is reimagining the convenience store experience by seeking out the best food items by local artisans along with its core offerings of coffee, ready-to-eat cafe meals and wine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company's technology makes it easier for companies to create demonstration videos, called “arcades,” that walk people through how their tools work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Career Karma raised its first millions off of a pitch that resonates with anyone who has ever googled coding bootcamps: a navigation tool for aspiring students and working professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ParrotConnect is a point-of-sale software for restaurants enabling them to digitize and take advantage of the home delivery boom to accelerate growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Founder Alán Jaime Misrahi grew up devoted to soccer, eventually playing in Mexico’s third division. While he didn’t necessarily make it to the “big leagues” playing the sport, his new company Draftea aims to win over the 350 million sports fans in Latin America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Age-tech startups at this year’s CES demonstrated the potential breadth of the sector. If tech can help an older person live more comfortably, it can also help out a lot of other people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Will the world ever go back to big in-person events? Of course. Eventually. CES already moved in that direction this year, for better or worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Doosan Robotics this week announced $33.7 million in funding, led Praxis Capital Partners and Korea Investment Partners. The fundraising news arrives as the Seoul-based company shows off its wares at CES in Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s always fun tech for pet owners at CES, and 2022 is no different. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Autonomous shuttle company EasyMile and sidewalk robot delivery startup Coco are integrating DriveU.auto’s teleoperation and connectivity platform into their operations, DriveU.auto, an Israeli startup that came out of stealth last year, they announced at CES. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Refinery focuses on “early scale” companies, a term the firm uses to describe companies that secured a seed, but need that “oomph” to get it to Series A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the past few years, Mojo Vision has had a small presence at CES, offering up glimpses into the potential of its augmented reality contact lenses. Every year, the picture seems a little closer, if still far away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Organizing information from providers, insurers and patients not only takes a lot of time, but increases private healthcare costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw data. Data labeling is a critical part of automating artificial intelligence and machine learning model, but at the same time, it can be time-consuming and tedious work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The future of lidar is uncertain unless, as Voyant hopes to do, its price and size are reduced to fractions of their current values. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Koko Networks, a Kenya-based bio-fuel technology enterprise has extended its business to cover other fast-moving consumer goods, through a new tech platform that will capitalize on its established distribution networks in low-income neighborhoods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, according to the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GlobalBees, which raised one of the largest Series A financing rounds in India earlier this year, has entered the unicorn club as the New Delhi-headquartered firm scales its Thrasio-like house of brands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After seven years in the production of electronic gadgets, under his company Imose Technologies, Osayi Izedonmwen took leave to explore an idea that he had toyed with for some time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Industry veteran Jitendra Gupta’s consumer-focused neobank Jupiter has raised about $86 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-based startup gears up to offer its customers lending and wealth management services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Automation Anywhere, which is best known for its robotic process automation (RPA) software, plans to expand the platform. This morning, the company announced that it intends to acquire process discovery startup FortressIQ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Skio, a startup that aims to take the pain out of selling subscriptions for brands on Shopify, has raised $3.7 million in a seed funding round. Kennan Davison, an engineer who previously worked at Hulu and Pinterest, founded the startup in April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brazilian construction tech startup Ambar announced it has raised a large Series C round of R$204 million, approximately $36 million, to boost the digitization arm of its business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices