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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

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This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. Decagon runs a six-month software engineering program and selects its candidates based on merit. also took part.

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Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

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Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. companies “gaining attention and recruiting top talent.” 4), Ramp (No. 5), Gravy (No. 14), Esusu (No.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

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Nigerian fintech startup, Kuda, which bagged $10 million last year, comes to mind, for example. Just a month into 2021, Egyptian fintech startup Cassbana raised a $1 million pre-seed investment led by VC firm Disruptech in a bid to drive expansion within the country. “Fintech is compelling. Okra is an API fintech startup.

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

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Choudhary, who serves as CTO at TrueFoundry, also worked at Meta as a software engineer and helped the social networking giant develop products including mobile apps and live video. Before venturing TrueFoundry, Bajaj and Gutgutia co-founded an AI-based recruitment platform EntHire, which was acquired by Info Edge last year.

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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

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Software engineers should know how much the cloud costs for their area, have visibility into where they spend money, and be equipped to manage those costs, because the cloud is a land of opportunity,” he says. Budgeting, Business Operations, CIO, Cloud Management, Cloud Security, Fintech, IT Leadership, SaaS

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7 AI startups that stood out in YC’s Summer ’22 batch

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Featuring founders from 30 countries and startups across sectors including developer tools, fintech and healthcare, the day saw no shortage of compelling pitches. Leveraging large language models similar to GPT-3, NuMind can be used to, for example, find which job offers best match a given resume on a recruitment platform.

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Complete helps startups think through the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of employee pay

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“For some of our early-stage clients, they don’t even have levels set up — like they don’t even have a software engineer one versus a software engineer two. WTF is a 409A? It is far from the only startup working on demystifying compensation decisions.