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YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

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Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. Insurance companies were losing a lot of money to fraud.

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Fintech Roundup: Due diligence makes a comeback and a former Better.com employee speaks out

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Investors appeared to be backing some startups in part due to FOMO, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. It’s an absolutely different environment from Q4 of last year,” he said, “not just in terms of the level of diligence but also, in the access to capital. And in his view, and mine quite frankly, that’s not a bad thing.

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Private equity looks to the CIO as value multiplier

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As private equity firms invest in companies, they aim to increase value rapidly, and leveraging technology is a key strategy in achieving this objective,” he says. The CIO touches everything While Buccola’s evidence of an elevated CIO role is anecdotal, Michael Corrigan, CIO of large insurance broker World Insurance, sees the same trend.

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The Role of Due Diligence in Business Transactions

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Due diligence involves reviewing information thoroughly before a transaction takes place. There are two types of due diligence. Hard DD investigates data and facts, including legal structures, ownership, securities laws compliance, stockholder agreements, insurance information, and regulations.

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Puls Technologies lands $15M to provide on-demand home repair service

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That’s where Puls Technologies come in. Puls raises $50 million for in-home technical support. Puls Technologies app. Image Credits: Puls Technologies. It saw some of that demand related to the global pandemic, when the need for home repairs increased due to people spending more time at home.

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State of IT jobs: Mixed signals, changes ahead

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The industry saw unprecedented growth in certain areas — such as AI and ML — alongside massive layoffs from tech vendors and cooling (or even contracting) salaries for a wide range of IT roles. Recent layoffs have been cast in part as a corrective for that period, when the average tech salary increased nearly 9%.

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CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform

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In less than a year after raising $25 million in Series B funding , technical assessment company CodeSignal announced a $50 million in Series C funding to offer new features for its platform that helps companies make data-driven hiring decisions to find and test engineering talent.