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Bielefeld survey highlights an emerging B2B, crypto, deep tech ecosystem

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Our survey respondents pointed out that the region is strong in sectors such as B2B because of the many old-school B2B companies in the manufacturing area. There is fairly ready access to many large family offices such as Dr. Oetker, Miele, CLAAS, Schüco and Bertelsmann, so there is a lot of capital available. What does it lack?

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Plaid’s staffing story, RevOps for B2B sales, demo day’s demise

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When Jean-Denis Greze accepted the CTO role at Plaid in 2017, the fintech company was still financing its Series A had “about 20 engineers who were still trying to feel their way to product-market fit,” writes enterprise reporter Ron Miller. .” How Plaid’s CTO grew his engineering team 17.5x Walter Thompson.

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Startup studio eFounders reaches portfolio valuation of $2 billion

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In practical terms, it means the company is building B2B SaaS startups with a focus on productivity and workflows. The startup studio tries to find a CEO and a CTO. You can imagine another studio for blockchain startups, another one for AI startups, etc. “We eFounders says it is focused on building the future of work.

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Starlight shoots for the moon, aiming to build the Brex of crypto

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Nguyen and co-founder Ben Yang, now CTO at Starlight, left jobs at other tech companies to participate in a fellowship for pre-seed founders hosted by South Park Commons last year. Starlight’s core customers are companies who need to convert some of their cash into crypto, many of which are digitally native but new to web3, Nguyen said.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO. ” Founders : Tobi Ololade, the CEO, was the chief technological officer of TradeBuza, a data and API infrastructure for agriculture finance.

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Apiumhub among top IT industry leaders in Code Europe event

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This year you will have 6 unique tracks: Cloud Computing: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS DevOps: Microservices, Automation, ASRs Cybersecurity: Threats, Defenses, Tests Data Science: ML, AI, Big Data, Business Analytics Programming languages: C++, Python, Java, Javascript,Net Future & Inspire: Mobility, 5G data networks, Diversity, Blockchain, VR.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

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Plaid’ s CTO detailed to Ron Miller how he grew his engineering team by 17.5x Meanwhile, fellow fintech enthusiast Ron Shevlin in February summed it up nicely in a recent Forbes piece , writing that “the rise of interest in banking as a service is the result of the growing embedded finance trend.” in 4 years.

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