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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

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The city also has the most fintech startups per head in the U.K. Use discount code HARBOURSIDE to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. The survey revealed that the city has a robust renewable, zero-carbon and fintech startup landscape. A lot of focus on fintech, I think. city for tech investment.

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Triumph raises $14M for an SDK to add real-money tournaments into games

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Currently its focus is mobile games but the bigger aim is to expand to platforms like VR and more. The pair rented out a house with several other friends and created an isolation pod, spending lots of healthy time indoors gaming and coding. per month, and it has led to $54 in average monthly revenues per player per game.

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How to Hire Banking UX/UI Designers

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Luckily, FinTech UI UX design offers a promising solution. Some FinTech companies use AI for hyper-personalization, while others leverage generative AI to power chatbots, prevent fraud, and automate time-consuming tasks. While far from mass-market adoption , VR and AR are decent tools for increasing customer engagement.

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Daily Crunch: Following ‘significant reduction’ in demand, Peloton puts brakes on production

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Plaid buys Cognito : After the huge Plaid-Visa deal fell through over regulatory hurdles, the fintech API company has been busy. First, Anna Heim wrote something lovely about first-time founders and how market fetishization of serial founders could be leading to new entrepreneurs not getting their due. Remember no-code?

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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

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However, they seem to think it’s weaker in design, hardware, fintech, robotics and agritech. The investment scene is described variously as focusing on software, clean tech, life sciences, biotech, organoids, 3D bioprinting, AI and VR/AR. IT/software/data/AI and VR/AR are also important focus areas for investors.

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As edtech evolves, LatAm reskilling platforms raise millions to bring outcomes into the mix

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Coderhouse , founded in 2014 by Christian Patiño, is a platform for LatAm professionals to take live, online cohort-based courses in topics such as data, coding, design and marketing. The response to this then became boot camps, which he deems are “way more effective” but inaccessible due to low acceptance rates and high costs.

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Assessing the impact of layoffs on Africa’s IT talent

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Similarly, Wave, a Francophone Africa fintech with services in Senegal and Ivory Coast, laid off roughly 15% of its team in June 2022. Yet Goldstuck and Walker see there’s still the underlying issue of demand for custom software development, AI, cybersecurity and data science skills. In fact, we’d be seeing the opposite.