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Railsbank, the Banking-as-a-Service, raises $37M in growth funding

TechCrunch

alone” Meanwhile, Railsbank now employs 200+ people, who between them speak 40+ languages. London, Manila (Philippines), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Melbourne (Australia), Vietnam and Sri Lanka. It has offices in 11 locations: Santa Monica (U.S.), Singapore, Vilnius (Lithuania), Munich (Germany), Newcastle (U.K.),

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YouTravel.Me packs up $1M to match travelers with curated small group adventures

TechCrunch

It’s hard for adults to make friends, but when you are on a two-week trip with just 15 people in a group, you form a deep connection, share the same language and experiences,” Bortnikova told TechCrunch. It happened that it was the same time that he was vacationing in Sri Lanka where he was one of very few tourists.

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Bangladesh-based Maya, a startup focused on accessible healthcare, raises $2.2 million seed round

TechCrunch

Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. Maya uses natural language processing and machine learning technology for its digital assistant, which answers basic health-related questions and decides if users need to be routed to human experts.

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Sri Lanka’s cannabis-seekers are gathering on Facebook

The Verge

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand. His name is Pierre Le Roux and he has researched in that area for 25 years, speaks five languages, and has a very strong, more than a feeling, he has a very strong opinion that human trafficking can be stopped.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Martus is available in seven languages , including in Dari and Farsi which are commonly spoken in Afghanistan. You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. My second presentation was an introduction to the Martus software.

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The tier list: how Facebook decides which countries need protection

The Verge

Other countries, such as Ethiopia, may not even have the company’s community standards translated into all of its official languages. Other countries, such as Ethiopia, may not even have the company’s community standards translated into all of its official languages. Fact-checking partners don’t exist. War rooms never open.

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