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SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory

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As part of the investment, Lydia Jett, founding partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Andela’s board. Andela evaluates technical and soft skills of engineers and matches them with the teams that most closely fit. They are in addition to verticals in Angular, DevOps, Golang, iOS, Java, Python, QA, React Native, React.js

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Meet the 50 CISOs to Watch in 2024

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Recognizing the increasing challenges yet often underappreciated role of these professionals, we launched the 50 CISOs to Watch initiative last year to celebrate the CISOs demonstrating outstanding technical and leadership qualities. LinkedIn Bill Bowman Emburse Bill Bowman is a pivotal figure in global FinTech cybersecurity.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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Other investors felt that a broader range of industries, like fintech and biotech, would eventually produce the biggest companies in the country. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio. There simply isn’t enough innovation in fintech from the Israeli ecosystem.