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With investors like Lightspeed and The Chainsmokers, Mexican neobroker Flink raises $57M to boost financial inclusion in LatAm

TechCrunch

Existing backers Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis Venture Capital (founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B. There is a growing number of them globally, including Scalable Capital, Bitpanda and Trade Republic in Europe. We want Flink to be the easiest way to invest, save and use your money.” .

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Fintech companies must balance the pursuit of profit against ethical data usage

TechCrunch

He has more than two decades of experience in fintech, capital growth, mergers & acquisitions and strategic IPO advisory. To retain market share, these institutions will need to continue investing in fintech so they can level up with convenience and personalization provided by new competitors while preserving trust and transparency.

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From cloud computing to proptech: Digital Ocean co-founders raise $29M for Welcome Homes

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Our main thing was educating and being that big value of simplicity for our customers, and while this is a completely different product and industry, we think the way in terms of owning the market position of simplicity,” Hartman told TechCrunch in an interview. million raised in Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures.

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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

TechCrunch

“But to date it’s mostly been inbound, with enterprises, Fortune 500 companies and government organizations coming in and wanting to work with us. This latest tranche is coming in the form of a debt facility from a single company, Hercules Capital. Now it’s time to build out a sales team to go after them.”

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Advanced RAG patterns on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post discusses RAG patterns to improve response accuracy using LangChain and tools such as the parent document retriever in addition to techniques like contextual compression in order to enable developers to improve existing generative AI applications. We use an ml.t3.medium For step-by-step instructions, refer to the GitHub repo.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

In 1825, to deal with the “Indian Problem,” the US Congress formed a region known as “Indian Country,” lands West of the Mississippi (today Oklahoma). ” History was not on Mr. Maxwell’s side, nor with his attempts to reform the financial industry a few years later. Their intentions were good.

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The Essential Digital Strategies

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Therein lies the opportunity for most of us. Today’s networks can be of any size, any form, and can effortlessly enable us to come together en masse and collaborate for purposes of creating incalculable human value — many of which were hitherto simply impossible, and all at a cost that relentlessly falls towards zero.