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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

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So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” That’s what Decagon hopes for by training and connecting engineers to work remotely with both local and international companies. Canada, the U.K., and Germany. So the issue really is supply.

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Workrise, once known as RigUp, raises $300M at a $2.9B valuation

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Its gross revenue has tripled since 2018, going from just under $300 million to about $900 million to close out 2020. Workrise’s online platform matches workers with over 500 companies in its network, manages payroll and benefits and provides access to training. to automate parts of the recruiting process. wind industry.

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Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS

TechCrunch

For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. “We were in the middle of the 2018 wildfire season, with the Carr Fire, and what I thought at the time was the worst season ever,” Wolff said. It’s been pretty easy to recruit top Silicon Valley talent,” Wolff said.

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Qwick raises VC money to match gig workers with hospitality jobs

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Critics allege that the platforms could leave businesses with less budget for recruitment and training, encouraging them to replace full-time positions with temporary work. And Mastercard predicts that the number of global gig workers will rise to 78 million in 2023, up from 43 million in 2018.

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Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion

TechCrunch

Elenas offers an automated on-boarding process for the sellers, but Oschin said that within the app, “we do a lot of work to train our sellers how to sell.” The company (which participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield in 2018) says it’s now paid out more than $7 million to its sellers.

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Anomalo launches with $33M Series A to automatically find issues in data sets

TechCrunch

It sounds simple enough, but what Anomalo is doing behind the scenes is connecting to these data warehouses and training a machine learning model on what is normal for this particular set of data and reporting when it finds issues. It wasn’t an easy problem to solve.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. By 2018, the Trainline platform was hosting more than 80 million customer visits a month, with more than 80% coming through mobile devices.

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