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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, billion into construction tech in 2018. Tech companies of the last few decades have largely focused on industries that can easily be networked and analyzed as a bit-stream (media, finance, etc).

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Ashby lands $21.5M to automate key aspects of recruiting

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million in equity financing. Ashby was founded in 2018 by Benjamin Encz and Abhik Pramanik, who met while working together at PlanGrid, a construction productivity software startup. . “Existing recruiting data and analytics are limited and unreliable, making it difficult for finance to do … planning.

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Apptopia raises $20M to expand its competitive intelligence business beyond mobile

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The new financing was led by ABS Capital Partners, and follows three consecutive years of 50% year-over-year growth for Apptopia’s business, which has been profitable since the beginning of last year, the company says. Rivals had more accurate data from about 2016 through 2018 because of their use of mobile panels, Kay says.

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Why 2022 insurtech investment could surprise you

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And yet when CB Insights dropped its 2021 fintech data collection , it noted that global insurtech venture activity hit a new high in the year. MetroMile was valued at $540 million during its final private round in 2018, per PitchBook data. billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.).

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Sisu Data raises $62M to stop companies from making clouded business mistakes

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Sisu Data , which aims to help businesses make better decisions, announced today it has raised $62 million in a Series C round of funding led by Green Bay Ventures. The financing brings San Francisco-based Sisu’s total raised since its 2018 inception to over $128 million. NEA led the company’s $52.5

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech. That was crazy.

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CrowdForce raises $3.6M to increase access to cash for underserved communities in Nigeria

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The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. In 2018, the company got its first big break while working on TraderMoni, a small loan scheme for micro traders pioneered by the Nigerian government.