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When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Thoras.ai founders Nilo and Jennifer Rahmani were never seen by their parents, who fled with their older siblings. I was forced to. Eventually, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Northern Virginia, where they gave birth to twin girls. They grew up to become engineers, working for Slack and the Department of Defense, respectively, helping her implement cloud-native solutions. In their previous jobs, the Rahmanis sisters recognized that there was a problem with the way engineers procured Kubernetes workloads, relying too much on intuition and not enough on data. Inheriting…

Borderless Capital, a Web3-focused investment firm, announced Tuesday that it will acquire CTF Capital, a quantitative trading and asset management firm headquartered in Miami with technical and operational teams in Latin America. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. This agreement marks Borderless' first acquisition since its founding in 2018. With this acquisition, Borderless Capital adds AI-powered quantitative trading expertise to its business. The deal also marks the company's geographic expansion into Latin America, with the company set to open a new office in Argentina, one of Web3's main centers of innovation, in the second quarter of this year.…

Controversial crypto-biometric venture WorldCoin has been suspended again, this time in Portugal, and has been almost completely banned from Europe. The order from the country's data protection authority follows a similar three-month suspension order issued by Spain's DPA earlier this month. Portugal was one of only two countries left in Europe where WorldCoin operated its own eye-scanning sphere after Spain's ban. This leaves Germany currently the only market in Europe where biometrics can be collected, as privacy watchdogs take urgent steps to address local concerns. Portugal's data protection authority announced on Tuesday that it had banned WorldCoin from local operations…

Alexandre Boulanger is best known for building a self-balancing exoskeleton in Wandercraft. For his next trick, a Paris-based robot entrepreneur is working on a much lighter type of wearable: a wrist-worn patch to monitor chronic kidney disease (CKD). His Metyos, a medical technology startup where Boulanger is his CEO, is a company he co-founded. Co-founded with CTO Olga Chashchina. She has a PhD in biomedical engineering and has developed special expertise in biosensors, which is important to their work here. Interest in biowearables has exploded in recent years, driven by developments such as the commercialization of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)…

A cybersecurity startup called Cyera believes AI will be the next big challenge in enterprise data protection and has raised significant funding due to the growing demand for AI. The company, which is developing AI-enhanced tools to understand exactly where and how data in an organization's network is being used, has not finalized a nearly $300 million round of funding, sources said. The company is reportedly close to tripling its valuation to $1.5 billion in the process. very close to agreement. Prominent venture firm Coatue is leading the funding round, sources said. The deal is expected to close in early…

A new report highlights the demand for startups building open source tools and technologies for the snowballing AI revolution, and the adjacent data infrastructure industry is heating up as well. Runa Capital, a venture capital (VC) firm that raised money from Silicon Valley and moved its headquarters to Luxembourg in 2022, has published the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index for the past four years and is growing rapidly. Shining a light on the company. Commercial open source software (COSS) startup. The company issues updates quarterly, but last year it produced its first annual report that looked at the entirety…

A Scottish company building one of the UK's first all-electric intercity bus networks has raised $14m (£11m) in a Series A round as it looks to expand across the country. Building a bus network from scratch, electric or otherwise, is not something that anyone comes up with overnight with a laptop and endless cups of coffee. A bus network requires buses, and there are plenty of them. And that's what Keith Bradbury and Pierce Glennie have been doing since founding Ember in Edinburgh in 2019, starting with a single car sourced from one of the few manufacturers willing to take…

Telegram gives users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to use their phone number as a relay to send one-time SMS passwords to other users trying to log into the platform We have introduced a controversial new feature. Potential privacy risks and leakage of personal information. This feature was first discovered by the TGInfoEn Telegram channel (via reverse engineering) assemble debug) is rolling out in some countries for Telegram for Android users. Once you agree for Telegram to use your number as his OTP relay, you will receive a Telegram Premium transferable code. The…

Uzum, an e-commerce startup providing online shopping, fintech and food delivery to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, raises $114 million in funding and becomes the country's first unicorn with a valuation of $1.16 billion It became. Uzbekistan is fertile ground for startups, given the fact that around 60% of the country's population of over 35 million people are under the age of 30. The country also boasts a near 100% literacy rate (according to the government), an internet penetration rate of over 76%, and a smartphone penetration rate of over 75%. In 2020, the Central Asian country had nearly 1,200…

Here's the hard truth behind personal care products: People mainly buy water and plastic. Water is by far the main ingredient in shampoo and shower gel bottles. Contains plenty of active ingredients. And because it's a “premix” product, companies spend a lot of money on plastic bottles to get those products down the toilet. French startup 900.care wants to try something new. Rather than buying a new bottle of shower gel every time you need it, this startup focuses on active ingredients. When you place your first order, you will receive an empty reusable plastic bottle with a pump. Place…