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

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Well, aside from the pay, Behr explained a few trends that are happening. Fountain, a platform for recruiting gig and hourly workers, raises $23M. “There was some hope amongst our prospective and current customers that once COVID-19 was over, whenever that was, that hiring would just become easy again. That is completely wrong.”.

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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. Macro trends and topics like GDP and inflation drive content on Stears Premium.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

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As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. An organization-wide dashboard reveals trends across different projects and teams.

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Grok 3 model puts xAI at the top tier of frontier model developers

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A small group of rival developers have been testing an early version of Grok 3, and most say theyre impressed, with some caveats. This time around, itll be knowledge workers in tech hubs and financial centers who will face the greatest exposure to AI-driven change. Brookings, a D.C.-based

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Teamraderie, a B2B MasterClass-style platform for team building, raises $7M

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The growing trends of hiring and running remote workforces, and more recently the major upheaval of restructuring across a number of industries, have redefined and disrupted the concept of teams at work.

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

TechCrunch

We already knew there was a big trend toward remote working, and this has only been drastically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Flown is essentially wrapping up into one package the knowledge workers’ wish-list. Think “Airbnb-meets-Calm-as-a-service”. Alicia Navarro, founder, Flown. She may well be pushing at an open door.