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Farther, a wealth tech firm, banks $15M Series A as valuation hits $50M

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Building wealth is a long process and can be complex, but Farther is bringing both technology and advisors to the table to make these kinds of services more accessible. Meanwhile, Genser, CTO, is a military veteran who previously worked at Goldman Sachs leading an artificial intelligence team in private wealth.

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Alloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt

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Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. The promise? A proud Barnard College alumna, she lives in Berkeley, California.

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Brick closes $8.5M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia

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Brick wants to simplify the process with a suite of APIs that connects financial apps to “hyper-local” sources of data, including banks, mobile wallets and telecoms. Tan was an early employee at Aspire, the neobank, while Malhotra was co-founder and CTO of Indian neobank Slice.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

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Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. We believe the differentiator is your own data.”

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Meta alumni’s startup TrueFoundry raises $2.3 million to accelerate ML deployments

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Unlike the traditional way that requires a large time duration, TrueFoundry says machine learning developers using its platform can put their models into production as hosted endpoints along with auto-scaling in less than five minutes and monitor results from the very beginning. million in a round led by Sequoia India’s Surge.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

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Instead of focusing on administrative tasks, spend time coaching, goal setting, and leading, he says. “I I do AMAs [ask me anything conversations] every six weeks,” says Pedro Canahuati, CTO at 1Password. “I I focus on people’s individual development and growth,” says Canahuati. “I Then we aggregate it,” she says.

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What goes up must come down

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It was a startling development in the world of crypto, and while I don’t cover the space directly, I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the goings-on — and not in a good way. The goal will be to deliver “game-changing projects” and serve the bank’s lines of business. Pymnts has more here. Another example of fintech for good.