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Vista Equity to acquire majority stake in SaaS startup Drift, taking it to unicorn status

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Prior to this financing, Boston-based Drift had raised $107 million in funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital, CRV and General Catalyst since its 2015 inception. Cancel’s parents emigrated from Puerto Rico and Cuba while Torres emigrated from Nicaragua in his teens. “I So just what does the company do exactly?

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

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Cuba: Laura Pollan, whose home is the headquarters for Damas en Blanco ( Ladies in White). France: Fatima Elayoubi, an Arab immigrant and former cleaning woman, whose memoir, Prière à la Lune (Prayer to the Moon) , raised awareness among Parisians about the lives of "invisible" immigrants like herself.

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