Zūm wins $150M from San Francisco schools to modernize and electrify student transport – TechCrunch

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has awarded Zūm, a startup that wants to upgrade student transportation, a five-year $150 million contract to modernize its transport service throughout the…

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Founder Interview – Ola Sars of Music-Tech Leader, Soundtrack Your Brand

As part of our Founder Interview series, The Startup Magazine caught up with entrepreneur Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of music-tech leader, Soundtrack Your Brand. A serial entrepreneur in the music-tech space, Ola…

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Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year – TechCrunch

Today we’re wrapping our multi-week exploration of the global venture capital market’s second-quarter performance. We’ve gone around the world, working to better understand the geyser of cash flowing into today’s…

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Colombia’s Merqueo bags $50M to expand its online grocery delivery service across Latin America – TechCrunch

Merqueo, which operates a full-stack, on-demand delivery service in Latin America, has landed $50 million in a Series C round of funding. IDC Ventures, Digital Bridge and IDB Invest co-led…

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True ‘shift left and extend right’ security requires empowered developers – TechCrunch

Idan Plotnik is the CEO and founder of Apiiro, a code risk platform. DevOps is fundamentally about collaboration and agility. Unfortunately, when we add security and compliance to the picture,…

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