Trussle raises £7.5m weeks after founder leaves mortgage broker

Online mortgage broker Trussle has landed £7.5m of funding, weeks after its founder left the business five years after opening its doors. The London-based firm said it received the cash from Dutch investment fund Rabo Frontier Venture, part of cooperative lender Rabobank, based in Utrecht. The move comes after founder and chief executive Ishaan Malhi (pictured) severed ties with the firm earlier this month. The former Bank of America Merril Lynch mortgage analyst set up the broker in 2015. The fintech said the fresh funds come at a “pivotal stage” of the firm’s development as it bids to overhaul the £1.5bn mortgage loan market.

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Grab lands $850 million to pump into financial services

Hong Kong (CNN Business)Ride hailing company Grab just secured nearly $1 billion to help achieve its super app ambitions. The Singapore start up is getting an $850 million cash boost from investors that it plans to pump into digital payments and financial services. The injection comes as Grab is battling for market share against Indonesia's GoJek. Japan's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MBFJF), put up more than $700 million, with the rest coming from TIS, a Japanese IT solutions company.

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Cuebiq Provides Free Mobility and Store Visitation Insights to Businesses Navigating New Market Uncertainty

New York, (March 23, 2020) – In light of the current market volatility resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuebiq, a leader in offline location intelligence and consumer insights, today announced the release of its insights into mobility and store visitation patterns free of charge. These insights will help brands and agencies monitor their business performance, inform or modify their national and local strategies, and support the brick-and-mortar locations that are remaining open, as well as those that are converting to online transactions…

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COVID Promise Launches an Initiative to Restore the Economy

COVID Promise™, a nonprofit start-up focused on COVID-19 related economic resilience and recovery launched today. COVID Promise is a grassroots movement founded by business leaders and concerned consumers who want to spread hope and optimism as the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic worsens. During the shutdown, consumers and businesses make pledges to take specific actions to reignite the economy when the pandemic is under control and our economy and society reopen. COVID Promise has partnered with GVNG, a revolutionary technology platform

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Saykara Launches Coversational AI Breakthrough

- New System is Capable of Real-Time Autonomous Interpretation of Physician-Patient Encounters

- At Launch, Saykara is the Only AI-Powered Healthcare Voice Assistant That can Simultaneously Operate Ambiently (No Voice Commands) and Autonomously Listen to and Capture Meaning From a Physician-Patient Conversation

- Processing 12,000 Physician-Patient Encounters Each Month Across 18 Healthcare Specialties, Saykara Continues to Outpace the Broader Healthcare Voice Assistant Market

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Saykara AI Voice Assistant Eases Transition to Virtual Healthcare

Saykara, creator of the first ambient AI voice assistant for medical exam room conversations, today announced it has added a telehealth on-ramp to make remote patient care easier than ever. AI-powered voice assistant 'Kara' can now assist physicians from within Zoom video conference calls, documenting telehealth visits and anticipating provider's needs to make the shift to virtual healthcare as smooth as possible. Kara is also now free for practitioners handling cases of COVID-19, in support of healthcare providers on the front lines of the coronavirus public health crisis.

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Kabbage Review: Paycheck Protection Program Small Business Loans

Updated: May 5, 2020, 10:14am

Kabbage is an online lender that was originally focused on offering small businesses short-term lines of credit. But with the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the company pivoted in April to processing Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This review focuses on Kabbage as a PPP loan provider.

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FreedomPay announces Paradies Lagardère as latest DecisionPoint Network™ Partner

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- FreedomPay, the world's leading consumer-centric commerce platform, has announced that Paradies Lagardère, the travel retail and dining leader in North America, has joined it's DecisionPoint Network™ platform. Building upon the established secure payments services FreedomPay provides at many of Paradies Lagardère's traditional retail outlets, such as CNBC Store, NBC Today Show Store, Brooks Brothers, and hundreds of shopping and dining establishments in more than 100 US airports including Atlanta, JFK, LAX and Philadelphia, Paradies Lagardère customers will now simultaneously experience relevant and targeted advertising in real time...

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Kabbage founders raise $11M for Drum, an SMB marketplace for sourcing salespeople, goods and services

It’s often said that smaller businesses get the short end of the stick when it comes to technology solutions: they are more high-maintenance than consumers, but not as lucrative as larger enterprises, leaving them caught somewhere in an unsatisfying middle. But today, two serial entrepreneurs who have already built one big startup catering to SMBs — loans platform Kabbage — are launching another effort to help fill that gap. Drum, billed as a marketplace for businesses both to source sales people and sell their goods and services, not just for SMBs but any direct online brands seeking to market to SMBs or consumers, has raised $11 million in funding to launch its company and to — yes — drum up new business...

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DAS UK and Goodlord introduce rent and legal protection offering

Property damage cover, legal expenses insurance, and contract dispute protection – these are just some of the features of a new policy rolled out by DAS UK Insurance for customers of Goodlord. Announcing the exclusive tie-up, the property technology firm said Goodlord users will benefit from a unique automated claims process that has been incorporated into its platform as part of the freshly launched rent and legal protection offering...

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Pendo Announces Next Generation Mobile Product at Third Annual Pendomonium Conference

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Pendo.io, the product cloud company, today announced breakthrough innovations to its mobile offering and key additions to its Activate partner ecosystem focused on accelerating innovation on top of the Pendo product cloud and unlocking product insights across an organization. From the main stage at Pendo's annual Pendomonium conference in at the Raleigh Convention Center, Pendo chief product officer Brian Croftsdetailed the following new mobile capabilities and corporate partnerships to the crowd of 1000...

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PRESS RELEASES Hootsuite Expands LinkedIn Integration to Help Businesses Maximize Impact

Vancouver, BC, Sept. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hootsuite, the leader in social media management, announced today a deeper collaboration with LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. The collaboration will provide customers with the ability to promote LinkedIn Pages content directly within the Hootsuite dashboard. The added capabilities will help customers save time, reach new audiences, gain quality leads, and ensure their return on ad spend is maximized.

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Cuebiq’s Data for Good Program Provides UNICEF with High-Precision Human Mobility Data for Real-Time Response to Humanitarian Needs

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cuebiq, a leader in offline location intelligence and consumer insights, today announced a partnership with United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Through its Data for Good program, Cuebiq will share its location data with UNICEF to gain critical, life-saving insights in order to serve vulnerable populations and inform humanitarian and emergency responses around the world. Cuebiq’s data will be accessible through UNICEF’s open source platform, Magic Box...

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FreedomPay, Vista Technology Services to deliver field services to merchants across Europe

FreedomPay has announced that it has entered into a global technology project and support partnership with Vista Technology Services (Vista). The three-year partnership will give FreedomPay immediate access to over 4,000 engineers in over 30 European countries to manage the installation and maintenance of payment solutions from simple to complex across the region. The agreement provides an on-site – enhanced and personalised – 24/7 service to FreedomPay customers. Vista will provide fully P2PE compliant warehousing and logistics designed to maintain a full ‘chain of custody’ throughout the delivery, installation, and maintenance lifecycles of FreedomPay’s payment platform systems...

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Sense Photonics Comes out With High-Tech Flash LiDAR

Tesla's approach to autonomy has been multiple cameras, sensors, and a super-powerful computer. A lot of specialists agree with Tesla. But now, a new startup believes it has developed a LiDAR system that's much better than current ones. As Forbes reports, North Carolina-based startup Sense Photonics has developed a system called flash LiDAR architecture. According to Sense Photonics' CEO Scott Burroughs, who spoke with the outlet on the phone, the system is "very simple, has no moving parts, fully solid state." The fact that there are no moving parts isn't the only thing that's different from other LiDAR systems...

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