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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 This is the startup’s second round, coming to a total of $19 million to date.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. And no one who really knew could tell you.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. link] The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog. [.]

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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AI Agents: The Evolution of RPA

VC Cafe

In this post, I aim to take stock of the AI Agent ecosystem, compare incumbents versus startups, explore areas of opportunity for founders building in this space, and look ahead at the future of AI Agents. Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial).