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Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision partners with Adidas and other sports brands

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The big news at this year’s show is a number of partnerships with brands across the sports spectrum, including: Adidas Running, Trailforks (cycling/hiking), Wearable X (yoga), Slopes (skiing) and 18Birdies (golf). The company also announced today a $45 million Series B-1, following last April’s $51 million raise.

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Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI

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Two former Shutterstock execs, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, were working together monetizing APIs and computer vision, and having attended some of those bad events, thought there could be a better way to make decisions on what events should be at the top of the list and which company team members should go to maximize return on investment. “We

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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

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million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams. In addition, the company will double-down on category verticals. Following the initial seed round, Moore said he found himself talking to even more investors wanting to get involved with the company.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo.

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Investors prove that insurtech isn’t dead, thanks to e-bikes and pre-fab homes

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Boundless Rider is a new insurance company founded specifically to serve riders of motorcycles, e-bikes and power sport vehicles. The company also previously raised $2 million in pre-seed funding that was never announced publicly. The Boston-based startup recently closed on $4.75

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

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“That’s when it moved from being opportunistic to very purposeful,” says Meyercord, who after a search for the right fit took over the CEO reins last November at Propel Software, a SaaS provider of engineering and product management software. “I Hart, CEO, Segra Kevin T.

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The Station: Rounding up the Tesla Cyber Roundup, a Waymo change up and the mysterious disappearance of Bolt Mobility

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The company also had some recent undisclosed investment, which ostensibly could have tided Bolt over long enough to, at the very least, remove its vehicles from the streets and properly dispose of or recycle them. . However, there’s also space to push micromobility companies to provide more protections. . In other news….

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