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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

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The use-cases we see are all net positive for the individual – helping them develop themselves professionally in an innovative manner – but there’s also a broad social benefit to Wilco in making professional development opportunities more accessible and equitable.

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

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Founders : Subomi Oluwalana, the CEO, and Emmanuel Aina, Convoy’s chief operating officer, are software engineers who worked together at Tangerine Africa and independently at various local and international tech startups. Eni Joshua, on the other hand, is a software engineer who has worked with a couple of startups.

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

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Coleman says Lilly Translate started as a passion project by a curious software engineer who had an idea for addressing a pain point of the Lilly Regulatory Affairs system portfolio: Business partners continually experienced delays and friction in translation services. Passion project pays off.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS burn multiples, 8 fintech VCs spill the tea, all my apes gone

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But say that you are burning $2 million in a quarter, and you are only adding $500,000 of net new ARR. At less than zero, you are in a cash-flow-positive position, which is really hard to do. At less than zero, you are in a cash-flow-positive position, which is really hard to do. Thanks very much for reading, and have a great weekend.

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Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed

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Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. and former LinkedIn software engineer and Rhodes Scholar, Derek Lyons, Ph.D. The interface of numbers would tax even the geekiest of CEOs.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

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s a pressing issue not unique to Travelers, but Mannoochahr sees that in order to deliver on those disciplines advancing analytics to foster a healthier business, he and his team recognize the need to cast a wider net. that cover areas of software engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and architecture, for instance.

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Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the most effective offer to each shopper

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Conti (who founded the company with Lionel Vital and Joseph Gilley) is a former Uber software engineer and researcher himself. Conti said the platform has been used to send millions of dollars’ worth of promotions since July, with one clothing company seeing a 20% increase in net revenue. It also raised a $1.32