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TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

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3 ways web3 recruiters can improve their hiring game. 3 ways web3 recruiters can improve their hiring game. In fact, funding for blockchain startups has already exceeded $4 billion so far in 2022, and investors seem intent on keeping up the pace, wrote Alex Wilhelm in The Exchange. But VCs don’t seem to mind.

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Nigerian ethical credit-recovery fintech Bfree secures $1.7M, expands to Asia, Europe, South America and across Africa

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Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 Bfree is now on a massive recruitment drive for the 16 new markets in which it is setting up operations, including Ghana, India, Uganda, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Russia, Poland, Pakistan and Indonesia. Lenders in the U.S.

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Tiger Global in talks to lead over $100M investment in India’s Slice

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A number of high-profile investors are chasing to invest in Slice, a fintech startup that is attempting to expand the market for credit cards in India. It is also exploring applications atop of blockchain, according to Bajaj’s LinkedIn and the startup’s recruitment posts.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence. PST, subscribe here.

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Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale

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On the other hand, Omolara, its operating partner, has worked as country manager of Jumia’s fintech arm in Nigeria and was a senior program manager at Facebook. After exiting Jobberman, Awoyemi, the firm’s managing partner, was a senior technical product manager at Indeed.

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Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing 

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After a Tahoe-based tech conference, Sheel Mohnot, the fintech investor behind Better Tomorrow Ventures, is beatboxing in his head — all day, every day. Unlike Microsoft and Apple, which both have sought to build AI models in-house, Amazon is recruiting third parties to host models on AWS.

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Daily Crunch: Drone service Wing completes 200K commercial deliveries, partners with supermarket chain

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So to see it shed some staff along the way is not a huge surprise, though the company likely won’t be happy to lose someone from its fintech team. TechCrunch is recruiting recruiters for TechCrunch Experts, an ongoing project where we ask top professionals about problems and challenges that are common in early-stage startups.