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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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Image Credits: Sesamm Founded out of Paris in 2014, Sesamm has amassed a fairly impressive roster of clients from across the financial realm specifically, including U.S. Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

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In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. In terms of the latter, the ability to operate our software as a service within the hyperscaler platforms will increase our market share.” Customers will say, ‘I’ve talked to the sales and marketing team. This is a new role for us.” I get all that.

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

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One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. In Zimbabwe, for instance, only 30% of the adult population had access to any financial services as of 2014.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

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Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. In 2014, Micromax poached Samsung’s country head for mobile and digital imaging Vineet Taneja and appointed him the CEO.

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Taiwanese startup WritePath’s AI tech speeds up financial disclosure translation

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TechCrunch first covered WritePath back in 2014 when it was an essay editing service for college applicants, technical writers and academic researchers. One of the reason for new disclosure policies is investor activism and the passage of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) in the European Union.

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Resilience, an introduction.

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In 2014 VUCA was introduced as purpose for resilience. In 2014 the term VUCA was introduced into business management to describe the continuous uncertainty businesses are part of [ Bennett-2014 ]. An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. See figure 1.

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

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Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. Faster deals, less diligence: The African startup market mirrors its larger rivals.

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