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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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Meet the mobile therapy startup backed by Christian Angermayer’s re:Mind Capital

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Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. .

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Landbot closes $8M Series A for its ‘no code’ chatbot builder

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Barcelona-based Landbot , a “no-code” chatbot builder, has bagged an $8 million Series A led by the Spanish-Israeli VC firm Swanlaab, alongside support from Spain’s innovation-focused public agency, CDTI. Previous investors Nauta Capital, Encomenda and Bankinter also participated in the round.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

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Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. LPs, coinvestors, and press use these tools, so I work for free for these data vendors to make sure that their data about our activities is correct. Her answer? ‘I

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Zach Aarons, MetaProp VC Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? Labor shortage/understaffed: The labor shortage in construction is a rapidly growing problem that isn’t going away.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion. Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights , said, “Last week at an industry function, we asked a high rolling VC, “how’s your lead gen?”