Saturn Cloud, a provider of data science tools for the enterprise, today announced it has launched the first-ever commercial offering of Dask, a Python-native parallel computing framework for scalable data science. The announcement comes just one month after the startup closed $4 million in seed funding round. Founded just this…
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The Israeli brain conquers Berlin: In two weeks (on December 11 and 12, to be precise), Germany’s capital, the strong economy in Europe, will host two international innovation events led by a group of people and computers: Fintech Junction 2019 – Fourth International Conference on Innovation in Financial Technologies To…
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The Czech business environment has been living the story of Beat Saber for 24 hours and will continue to live for many hours. Three guys who started drilling in virtual reality two years ago developed for them the most successful game over time and eventually sold it all to Facebook.…
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One of the great unknowns that torments entrepreneurs, and those who are in the process of being so, is to understand once and for all why startups fail. It is one of the big questions for the new companies that are starting. Well, the technology platform CB Insights, has already…
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Mexican crypto-exchange Bitso recently reported that remittance rates through cryptocurrencies are on the rise. According to the startup’s founder, Daniel Vogel, within the last six months, the use of digital currency sent from Mexicans to loved ones back home has increased at a rate of 15 percent. Last week’s transfer…
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Agriculture is a large value chain starting from seed to plate and has space for numerous interventions, founder tells Inc42 With farming being a $400 Bn industry in India, leading investors are infusing capital in agritech startups that work towards revolutising farming. There are more than 1,090 agritech startups in…
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Zebra Fuel, the London-based startup that delivered fuel directly to your vehicle — backed by Robin and Saul Klein’s LocalGlobe, Brent Hoberman’s Firstminute Capital and Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman — has told customers it is “no longer” delivering fuel in London. However, it is unclear at this stage if the…
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Raising startup funding in Latin America is hard, but it is getting easier. In the first half of 2019, VC investment in Latin American startups totaled US$2.6 billion, according to LAVCA. That compares to just under US$2 billion raised in all of 2018. Capital is flowing into Latin America, and…
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Statistics released by the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS) in September show a 99% increase this year over 2018 in the number of cases in South Africa involving identity fraud. One startup reckons it’s come up with a way to tackle this. Lance Fanaroff, the co-founder and co-CEO of…
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A CleanTech startup co-founded by a Cambridge University academic is tilting at a minimum $1 million global prize for transformative cooling technology. Barocal Ltd, co-founded by Dr Xavier Moya of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and based on his research, has already clinched $200k by reaching the final…
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