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

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While it’s been assumed that to get into tech, the obvious route was a two-to-four year (and often more) tour through college or university to pick up a higher education degree, the bet that Multiverse is making here is that apprenticeships can easily, and widely, become another. These typically last 1.5

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Augury taps $55M for tech that predicts machine faults from vibration, sound and temperature

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The company’s expansion is coming at an interesting point in the wider world of industrial tech, as well as in terms of the competitive landscape.

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

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And the evolution of that to expand to more knowledge worker jobs is not especially new, either. Pennylane raises $18.4 million for its accounting service. Upwork, Bark , Paro and others are among those offering a way for accountants to connect with would-be customers. Lugard appears to be a VC affiliated with U.S.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever.

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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

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Sidekick comes with its own ad blocker and anti-fingerprinting tech too — for a stated privacy purpose but also for an extra speed bump (i.e. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students. via better page load times). Slack acquisition.

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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

TechCrunch

Moody and Xu say the platform is designed to augment knowledge workers in their typical responsibilities, like reading through pages of information, extracting the pieces relevant to a particular question and transforming the information into an answer or a report.

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Anthill connects frontline workers to company resources through text messaging

TechCrunch

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time.