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AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence

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Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson, both worked previously as management consultants. That’s the premise behind Wokelo , a Seattle-area startup co-founded by two former management consultants, Siddhant Masson and Saswat Nanda. ” Funding: The company, founded in 2022, has raised $1.5

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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

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million contract from the U.S. The newly announced seed funding round was led by Hyperplane, with participation from Riot Ventures, Ravelin Capital and John Capodilupo, former chief technology officer and co-founder of Whoop. An artist’s conception shows the Space Systems Command’s SpaceDEN facility.

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Prophia, which extracts info from commercial real estate contracts, raises $10.2M

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Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. The tool spits out key terms such as square footage and dates in the lease, which gets reviewed by an expert.

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After tripling revenue in 2022, Lexion lands $20M to expand AI-powered contract management software

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From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. But now it’s taking aim at a much larger vision.

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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

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Emerging carbon dioxide removal technologies that leverage the ocean’s vast size and natural chemical processes hold promise as tools to draw down carbon at scale,” said Ocean Visions’ senior program officer Nikhil Neelakantan, in announcing its latest “Launchpad” program cohort that includes Banyu. .”

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Finding Common Ground with Your CEO

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The chief technology officer (CTO) and chief executive officer must work together for the good of the company. The CTO is responsible for focusing on technological matters, such as computers, websites and social networking. Work as Members of a Team.

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The skills and traits of elite CTOs

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Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.