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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

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When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

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Founded by Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru in 2015, Pula delivers agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers navigate climate risks, improve their farming practices and bolster their incomes over time. .” Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds. The pair both act as co-CEOs. million farmers.

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Asia HR tech platform Darwinbox becomes unicorn with TCV-led $72 million funding

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Chaitanya Peddi, Jayant Paleti and Rohit Chennamaneni (l-r) co-founded Darwinbox in late 2015. I am delighted to back an outstanding team that is doing exactly that in a highly impactful, fast-evolving HR technology space and partner with them on their journey to global HCM leadership.”. Image Credits: Darwinbox.

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‘Brand tech’ company You & Mr. Jones adds $60M to its Series B

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You & Mr. Jones takes its name from CEO David Jones, who founded the company in 2015. After having served as the CEO of ad giant Havas, Jones told me that his goal in starting what he called “a brand tech group” was to provide marketers with something that neither traditional agencies nor technology companies could give them.

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Local news app News Break raises $115M

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Founder and CEO Jeff Zheng said that when he started the company in 2015, the goal was to differentiate itself from other news aggregation apps by focusing on local news, and to “help or empower these local content creators.” “We are local-centric,” he said.”If Flipboard expands into local news.

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

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Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. “The billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28

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