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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. Bam and co-founder and CTO Dr. Barbara Rosario started the company in 2015 and raised a $2.1

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Nigeria’s SeamlessHR raises $10M to expand HR and payroll solutions across Africa

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Its product suite includes an HR management system, performance and competency management, HR analytics, leave management, payroll management and recruitment management. CEO Emmanuel Okeleji and CTO Deji Lana didn’t build SeamlessHR from the get-go.

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Founder alleges that YC-backed fintech startup is ‘copy-and-pasting’ its business

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Bromberg claims the Pebble co-founders, CEO Aaron Bai and CTO Sahil Phadnis, impersonated Y Combinator investors to get access to Eco’s waitlist. Bromberg said that while its yield product has temporarily paused lending stablecoins due to current market conditions, its offering has historically been based on doing just that.

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Gainful raises $7.5M for personalized sports nutrition

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COO Eric Wu, who founded the company with CTO Jahaan Ansari, told me that Gainful began with his own experience experimenting with different protein powders and eventually finding the combination that worked best for his goals and dietary needs. Gainful was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch. million in Series A funding.

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ConductorOne raises $5M in seed round led by Accel to automate your access requests

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For the unacquainted, Zero Trust is a security concept based on the premise that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside its perimeters and, instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access. But that access is never revoked, even if it’s unused,” Bovee said.

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Egypt’s customer engagement platform for F&B brands in MENA, Koinz, raises $4.8M seed

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Founded in 2018 by Hussein Momtaz , Ahmed Said , and Abdullah Al Khalidi , Koinz set out to solve two major problems in Egypt’s food aggregation industry. Abdullah Al Khalidi (CRO), Hussein Momtaz (CEO), and Ahmed Said (CTO). These consumers have redeemed almost 300,000 rewards, while almost 800,000 customers have left reviews.

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Vyne raises $15.5M seed round to grow its merchant-focused open banking solutions

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The sizable seed round from strong investors is due to a few factors. CTO Adam Rowland was also a Worldpay alum, among other financial services roles elsewhere. but even here it’s relatively young: regulations only came into effect at the start of January 2018. million in 2018. million consumers in the U.K.

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