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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

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Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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Southeast Asia health tech platform Speedoc raises $28M

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Speedoc , a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr. Shravan Verma and Serene Cai.

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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

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” Mitchell co-launched Valence, which is New York-based, in 2017 with Levi Goertz. To wit, the platform has team members complete surveys that ask them to rate the truthfulness of statements like “We make decisions quickly” and “We focus on the most important things.” billion last year.

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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

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Despite a recent push to address diversity issues in IT, data shows that Black professionals still face an uphill battle in the tech industry, receiving less recognition, opportunity, and acceptance than non-Black peers. To advance their careers and earn more pay, Black talent in the tech industry move employers every 3.5

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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

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In The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential , from 2017, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains that “All organizations have problems and they nearly always concern people.” A recent report from Korn Ferry Institute predicts that by 2030 the tech industry labor-skill shortage will reach 4.3

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

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Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur, Magnus Grimeland , and a team of experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and company builders worldwide, Antler has raised more than $75 million to help entrepreneurs spread across nine of the world’s major entrepreneurial hubs. Melalite Ayenew is the firm’s tech partner. ”