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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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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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He teamed up with John Dada two years later to build Curacel, a fraud detection system for health companies at the time. Founded in : 2020. It provides financing to these agents using community and trust-based systems, claiming to do so in five minutes. Founded in: 2020. Website : [link]. Team size : 15. Website: [link].

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Microsoft’s May 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 111 CVEs

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Microsoft addressed 111 CVEs in the May 2020 Patch Tuesday release, just short of the 113 CVEs seen in April. CVE-2020-1117 | Microsoft Color Management Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. CVE-2020-1117 | Microsoft Color Management Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. dll due to how objects are handled in memory.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

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Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. from 2019 to 2020.

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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

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Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Survey data illustrates the dramatic shift.

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How the pandemic drove the IPO wave we see today

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The pandemic has been the most animating force for startups and venture capital in 2020, discounting the slow movement of global business into the digital realm. Great business, even if Roblox warned that growth could slow sharply next year, when compared to its epic 2020 gains. But COVID did more than that, as we all know.

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Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’

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When R-Zero was founded in April 2020, the company primarily focused on developing hospital-grade UVC disinfection systems, or lights that can neutralize certain types of viruses (more on this later). Polling from 2020 suggests that cleaning procedures were top of mind for employees and customers alike. million valuation.