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TechCrunch+ roundup: Musk’s Twitter bid, European cannabis survey, borrowing against NFTs

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The United States is the world’s largest cannabis market, but as more European countries consider legalizing recreational use, investors are looking for opportunities in production, distribution and retail. 8 cannabis investors share their outlook on the European market in H1 2022. Much like the U.S., Much like the U.S.,

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Online university Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education

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-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms in the U.S. New Markets Venture Partners general partner Jason Palmer and Learn Capital managing partner Greg Mauro will join Nexford’s board. .

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What is a chief data officer? A leader who creates business value from data

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NewVantage Partners’ Data and AI Leadership Executive Survey 2022 , on the other hand, found that 74% of the firms it surveyed had appointed chief data or analytics officers, or both combined in one role. The difference in the findings may stem from where the CDO sits in the organizations surveyed.

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Business intelligence and analytics firm Pyramid Analytics raises $100M

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Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. By handling large amounts of data to analyze and benchmark lines of business, BI promises to help identify, develop, and otherwise create new revenue opportunities.

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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

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CEO Sean Knapp says that the new capital — which brings Ascend’s total to $50 million — will be used to expand the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams while extending Ascend’s platform to support greater automation. Of course, the benefits haven’t been evenly distributed.

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Arena raises money from Peter Thiel and David Petraeus for its decision-making AI

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Arena augments that data with context from what Ranade calls the “demand graph,” which provides broader, real-time market signals. Together, these inputs are used to create the aforementioned simulations, which in turn produce models for pricing, inventory and marketing that are then fine-tuned world data.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

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Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. According to CIO’s State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year.

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