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Workforce Management Platform Zira Notches $3.1M Investment

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Cloud-based workforce management platform Zira Technologies Inc. Zira's technologies are available for companies throughout the U.S., The Oakland, California upstart seeks to facilitate food deliveries for nearby eateries that get many orders from delivery firms such as Uber Eats. has landed $3.1 7) announcement.

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10 Early-Stage eSports Startups To Watch

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We used the CB Insights platform to surface 10 notable, early-stage eSports startups developing technologies related to competitive gaming facilitated by electronic systems, particularly video games played on computers or consoles by professional gamers (though many do it as a hobby or pastime). Headquarters: Oakland, California.

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The Solar Industry’s Most Active Investors

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The most active backers are diverse, from French energy utility company Engie — which operates multiple nuclear energy reactors — to Oakland’s Powerhouse, an incubator with a notable focus on the solar industry. It also includes companies that are working on improving the core elements behind solar technology.

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Changes Loom Around The (Crowded) World Of Food Delivery

PYMNTS

The startup, located in Oakland, California, aims to facilitate food deliveries for nearby restaurants that receive high volumes of orders from delivery companies like Uber Eats. It’s a remarkable acceleration of a technology that is still relatively young, and for which the use cases for commerce are both nascent and very much evolving.

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This Week In Insurance Tech: AIG Plans For Tech Investments, State Farm’s Smart Home Patent, Zesty.ai Opens AI Research Lab In Montreal

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Eos Venture Partners and IQ Capital Partners also participated in the round. private equity round led by Long Arc Capital and BPI France. Talege , a Reno, Nevada-based digital insurance platform, raised a $5M Series A led by Merus Capital. Oakland-based Zesty.ai Cover Genius partners with auto dealer management system.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

Banking 2020

Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. To be clear, it’s not as if the regulatory bodies have kept their hands completely off this market.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

Banking 2020

Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. To be clear, it’s not as if the regulatory bodies have kept their hands completely off this market.

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