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Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M

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Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. Diligent has been leading that specific charge for some time now. Diligent timed its last funding round perfectly, scoring $10 million in March of 2020, right before many U.S.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Essential (2017-2020).

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Butter raises $7M to end ‘accidental’ customer churn due to payment failure

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It was there that he realized there was an astounding number of subscriptions that failed to renew or even go through to begin with due to payment-related issues. The accidental churn is often not just due to problems with renewals, where people get frustrated by failed attempts to charge their credit card, for example. to $5 million.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. For Moncrieff, the conversation was really around ownership, transparency, and cost.

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Gradient backs Butter’s operating system for food distribution businesses

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Butter ’s solution is an all-in-one management system that helps distributors run their businesses while serving as a system of record to help them comply with food safety rules. Butter was founded by Winston Chi and Shangyan Li in 2020, during the height of the pandemic.

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Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020

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But every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. While we are in the habit of regularly doing internal reviews after every incident, we knew a cluster of incidents called for more scrutiny. The meta-review. What went wrong?