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Legora hits USD $100 million ARR as legal AI demand grows

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Legora tops USD $100 million ARR in 18 months as legal AI adoption accelerates across firms and corporate teams.
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Prophet bolsters Australian team with two key hires

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Prophet hires Lia Carruthers and Becky McMillan in Australia as it scales from start-up to growth phase and boosts marketing and customer teams.
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Deel unifies global hiring, pay and mobility tools

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Deel rolls out a unified platform for global hiring, payroll, planning and mobility after processing USD $22bn in pay and USD $250m in crypto.
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Singulr AI expands Richard Bird role to steer agentic risk

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Singulr AI hands Richard Bird an expanded CSO2 brief to fuse security and strategy as enterprises confront rising agentic AI risk.
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Telgea raises USD $5m to expand global mobile platform

Thu, 26th Feb 2026
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Telgea raises USD $5m led by Telenor to scale its unified global mobile platform for operators and multinational enterprise customers.
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Zitcha names Steve Biddle Chief Commercial Officer

Mon, 23rd Feb 2026
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Zitcha hires former Meta retail media leader Steve Biddle as Chief Commercial Officer to drive global growth in its retail media platform.
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Zoho marks 30th year with 1m customers, 150m users

Fri, 20th Feb 2026
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Zoho marks 30 years in business as it surpasses 1m paying customers and 150m users worldwide, with revenue up 20% in 2025.
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FL3XX appoints new chief executive in leadership reshuffle

Fri, 6th Feb 2026
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Aviation software firm FL3XX promotes co-founder Stefan Oberender to chief executive as Paolo Sommariva becomes chairman in a leadership shake-up.
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Airwallex buys Paynuri to launch payments in Korea

Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
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Airwallex buys Korean fintech Paynuri, securing key licences to launch local payments and FX services for Korean and global businesses.
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Coda unveils unified leadership team after Recharge deal

Tue, 9th Dec 2025
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Coda unveils a unified leadership team and reshaped board as it fully integrates Recharge into a single global digital commerce platform.
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Hackuity achieves SOC 2 Type II compliance for data security

Wed, 21st Feb 2024
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Hackuity, the RBVM company, attains SOC 2 Type II compliance, showcasing strong data security and compliance that uphold rigorous American standards, providing customers with enterprise-grade security assurance.
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eFlow Global reveals expansion plans to strengthen US presence

Thu, 18th Jan 2024
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Regtech firm eFlow Global announces plans for international expansion, strengthening its position in the US and increasing its already significant client base by 57% in the past year.
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BrangChain aims to make supply chains green with latest launch

Fri, 13th Oct 2023
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BrangChain aims to revolutionise last-mile logistics with its eco-friendly solution, combining blockchain, AI, and smart contracts.
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Revolutionising AML workflows, First AML launches Source

Wed, 20th Sep 2023
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First AML launches Source, a self-service platform to reinvent AML workflows, offering hope to businesses grappling with regulatory challenges.
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Take steps to future-proof digital transformation projects

Fri, 30th Jun 2023
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Digital transformation projects have been the driving force behind many technology investments in recent years.
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The factors that will shape cloud computing in 2023

Wed, 25th Jan 2023
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2023 will be a pivotal year for cloud computing with some of the key trends from previous years even more relevant due to the effects of the economic downturn.
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eCommerce fraud increasing pressure on businesses margins

Wed, 20th Jul 2022
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New report from Stripe finds that eCommerce fraud is one of the biggest drags on business growth, with nearly 3/4 of businesses affected.
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Shell co-develops liquid immersion cooling fluid with Asperitas

Mon, 2nd Mar 2020
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Shell and Asperitas are co-developing a new immersion cooling fluid aimed at significantly cutting data centre energy consumption and emissions.
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Veeam to be acquired for massive US$5 billion

Mon, 13th Jan 2020
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Insight Partners is set to buy Veeam Software for USD $5 billion, marking Veeam's shift to a U.S.-based leadership and boosting its move into hybrid cloud.
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ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards kicks off with Malaysia round

Tue, 15th Oct 2019
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Malaysia's Rice Bowl Awards by myNEF launched the ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards with a conference that highlighted startup funding and governmental roles.