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Tapping into digital nomadism and ‘deep work’ trends, Skimlinks founder raises $1.5M for Flown

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Into this scenario arrives Flown , an online platform that will match knowledge workers with inspiring properties already set up for productive and ergonomic remote work, as well as providing an array of online tools and resources to help them. Flown is essentially wrapping up into one package the knowledge workers’ wish-list.

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NVIDIA Releases NIM Microservices to Safeguard Applications for Agentic AI

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AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. To develop AI agents, enterprises need to address critical concerns like trust, safety, security and compliance.

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Ageras nabs $73M at a $244M valuation for its accountancy marketplace and bookkeeping tech stack

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In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium businesses to find accountants, is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. Pennylane raises $18.4

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UK’s WhiteHat rebrands as Multiverse, raises $44M to build tech apprenticeships in the US

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Traditionally, it’s a term that would have been associated mainly with skilled labor positions, rather than “knowledge workers.” “We want to b uild an outstanding alternative to university and college,” he said. These typically last 1.5 Apprenticeships are an interesting area for a startup to tackle.

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As companies search for hourly workers, Fountain brings in $85M to assist them

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Fountain, a platform for recruiting gig and hourly workers, raises $23M. Participation in the investment also came from new investors B Capital Group and Mirae Investment, and existing investors DCM, Origin Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Semper Virens and Uncork Capital.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford , a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria.

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

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In our view, Miro’s culture of customer centricity makes it well-positioned to address a myriad of use cases across hybrid work for more than a billion knowledge workers globally. “We believe Miro sits at a powerful intersection between asynchronous and synchronous work that captures and ignites creative processes everywhere.