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Handiscover, a startup that lets you find and book accessible travel accommodation, has raised $700,000 in new funding. The round is backed by Howzat Partners, which has previously invested in a number of successful travel companies, such as publicly-listed Trivago and more recently Lodgify. Tranquility Capital, a Swedish family fund with a

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Ed Byrne is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Scaleworks.

Do you worry about the so-called &kill zones& of big tech companies The Economistthinks you should. The theory basically suggests that if your product or service is anyway threatening or accretive to one of these incumbents,

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The artificial intelligence revolution is underway in the world of technology, but as it turns out, some of the most faithful foot soldiers are still humans. A startup called Scale, which works with a team of contractors who examine and categorise visual data to train AI systems in a two-sided marketplace model, announced that it has raised an

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Chinese AI startup Tianrang has raised a $26 million (RMB180 million) funding round from ChinaGaorong Capital and co-lead CMB International Capital. Other investors included Ziniu Fund and Chinese fintech company Wacai. In 2016, the company raised an angel round led by Gaorong Capital and participated in by Shanghai Jindi Investment

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InVision continues its slow march toward design world domination, today announcing the hire of Mike Davidson who will take over as Head of Partnerships and Community.

Davidson was previously the VP of Design at Twitter, where he built a 100-person team that was responsible for every aspect of Twitteruser experience and branding, including

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Our body is continuously storing and consuming energy to keep us alive — but understanding which fuels are being used and why is the Holy Grail of things like weight loss and body hacking. Todayweight-loss market is saturated with generic products because — guess what — trying to tailor-make a solution for an individual

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