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Superscript, a bespoke insurance provider for SMEs, raises $54 million

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Superscript has focused on sustainable growth and quality underwriting from day one to give us more favourable loss ratios. While Superscript is limited to the European market, it has longer term ambitions to become a global player. The underwriting factor.

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Is Silicon Valley really losing its crown?

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Bad economic policies are pushing founders out of CA to cities like ATX & MIA. In time, I do anticipate that a more global tech industry will dilute Silicon Valley’s former hegemony as the spawning point for what’s next , and it will become more figurehead than anything else. But has that happened?

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Survey finds 67% of European women in tech feel under-paid compared to men, half experience sexism

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Last month, on International Equal Pay Day, the International Labour (ILO) Organization revealed that on average, women globally are paid about 20 percent less than men. Regarding the gender ratio in the technology industry, this appears to be going moving in reverse.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

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The potential for telehealth across Africa is vast and promising as mobile connectivity deepens, and innovations that could potentially bridge the doctor-patient ratio gap increase according to a Deloitte report. This is against the best ratio of 84.2 doctors for every 10,000 people. doctors in some of the most developed countries.

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Branch snags $147M at a $1.05B valuation, showing that thorny insurtech market not impervious to growth

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The thing that Branch does differently is charge an appropriate amount to cover the costs of running each policy,” Lekas told TechCrunch. “We For Branch to have raised a nine-digit round in a challenging macroeconomic environment and amid a global venture slowdown is no easy feat.

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The need for true equity in equity compensation

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I began my career at Oracle in the mid-1980s and have since been around the proverbial block, particularly in Silicon Valley working for and with companies ranging from the Fortune 50 to global consulting companies to leading a number of startups, including the SaaS company I presently lead. compared to men of their same race.

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Nonprofit Transparency Best Practices: Building Donor & Public Trust

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From there, we more broadly contextualize financial transparency within other nonprofit transparency best practices, like publicly listing board members, having an on-site privacy policy, and more! In addition to a donor policy, all nonprofits should have a web data privacy policy on their site. New to data privacy?

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