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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

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The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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Entocycle grabs $5 million for its insect breeding technology

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In addition to contributing money, those sports professionals help startups with team-building advice and mentorship. While Entocycle has been around since 2016 , the team of 21 people will now try and commercialize its products. This new French VC firm is partnering with current and former athletes to invest in tech companies.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

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SAN FRANCISCO—The fastest, most cost-effective way to secure direct-record electronic voting machines in the United States, according to cybersecurity experts, is to stop using them. Experts disagree on how to secure absentee votes. Context Conversations preview: Election security. Why current funding to secure U.S.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Applied Intuition And Luminary Cloud Rise Above

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Of course there were more big AI-related rounds (the haves) but also a couple of big raises from some sectors that had been eschewed by investors not that long ago — autonomous vehicles and industrial security (the have-nots). Nozomi Networks , $100M, cybersecurity: Things are looking up for industrial cybersecurity startups.

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The UK’s National Cyber Strategy 2022 – An Evolution

Palo Alto Networks

The UK Government has once again shifted the cyber discourse with the recent publication of the National Cyber Strategy 2022 , marking a significant change in how the government views cybersecurity and solidifying its position as a global cyber power. Building Resilience and Securing the Digital Ecosystem. A Whole of Society Approach.

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

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sports betting company, GVC and online fashion retailer, ASOS have done in the past. The company which secured around $30 million in total with its last priced round (Series E) in January 2016, plans to raise less or a similar amount when going public in 2022. But it’s quite different with IROKO.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

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Before starting Forerunner, the UCLA business economics graduate and licensed CPA was an equity research analyst and investor at Banc of America Securities, formerly Montgomery Securities, covering publicly traded retail and consumer stocks.

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