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Yami bags $50M Series B to boost its online Asian marketplace 

TechCrunch

When Alex Zhou, founder and CEO of Yami, moved to the Midwest for college in 2007, he had limited access to Asian groceries and products. Yami wants to offer an authentic offering of Asian culture, tradition, and products to both Asian Americans and other Americans interested in Asian culture.

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

CIO

Many early CDOs appeared in the finance industry as lenders faced fines related to the 2007-08 housing credit crisis. Berkowitz sees part of the job as bringing together significantly different cultures that can develop between technology teams and business teams.

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Taboola is going public via SPAC

TechCrunch

Founded in 2007, Taboola powers content recommendation widgets (and advertising on those widgets) across 9,000 websites for publishers including CNBC, NBC News, Business Insider, The Independent and El Mundo. Taboola’s founder and CEO Adam Singolda (pictured above) told me that this didn’t lead directly the SPAC deal.

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Arbisoft co-founder Yasser Bashir on building trust with early-stage startups

TechCrunch

Co-founded in 2007 by Yasser Bashir, Arbisoft falls on the larger end of the spectrum of software development partners that our readers have recommended in our ongoing survey. What started with three people in 2007 is now one of the most successful software companies in our region. Arbisoft is a manifestation of many of those ideas.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO

Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in part because she felt culturally isolated in her electrical engineering and computer programming courses in college. The organization started in San Francisco in 2007 and has since grown to include over 62,000 members in 33 countries. Black Girls Code. Girls Who Code. TechLadies.

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Pngme, a financial data platform, closes $3M seed to accelerate growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

TechCrunch

Since M-Pesa’s mobile money infrastructure came into play in 2007, there has been a proliferation of fintech services ranging from wallets to savings and loans. came to East Africa in 2007 to work on philanthropic biofield projects. Founded by Brendan Playford and Cate Rung , Pngme started primarily as a lending platform in 2018.

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Your Most Important Business Strategy Is Culture

Strategy Driven

How healthy is the quality of your business culture? When I engage business leaders in discussion about their culture, most shrug their shoulders. Our culture is OK,” most of them say. The reality is that most leaders don’t pay attention to the quality of their culture. 54 percent believe culture is very important.

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