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Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: NYC-based Simon Data, which uses ML to help with analytics and marketing automation, raised a $54M Series D led by Macquarie Capital  —  Simon Data Inc., a startup with a platform that combines the features of an analytics tool and marketing automation software, has secured $54 million in new funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Israel- and Delaware-based Chargeflow, which uses ML to help businesses deal with chargeback disputes, raised an $11M seed led by OpenView and a $3M pre-seed  —  Chargeflow, a startup using AI to fight chargeback fraud, today announced that it raised $11 million in a seed round led by the VC firm OpenView Venture Partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TSMC agrees to build a €10B plant in Germany’s Dresden, owning 70% of the facility with Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each holding 10% stake, set to open in 2027  —  – Taiwanese giant will own 70% of fab in eastern city of Dresden  — Facility to supply auto, industrial sectors starting in 2027 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Philippines races to defend its share of the nearly $300B global business process outsourcing market, battling a talent shortage, rising competition, and AI  —  – Only one out of 10 outsourcing job applicants gets hired  — Growth in jobs added during pandemic fell below global trend Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Simon Data, which uses ML to help leverage customer data for marketing, raised a $54M Series D led by Macquarie Capital, taking its total funding to $113M  —  Simon Data Inc., a startup with a platform that combines the features of an analytics tool and marketing automation software, has secured $54 million in new funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Chargeflow, which uses ML to help businesses deal with chargeback disputes, raised an $11M seed led by OpenView and a $3M pre-seed  —  Chargeflow, a startup using AI to fight chargeback fraud, today announced that it raised $11 million in a seed round led by the VC firm OpenView Venture Partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rowena Mason / The Guardian: The UK Electoral Commission reports a hack by “hostile actors” starting in August 2021 and identified in October 2022; the full scope isn’t “conclusively” known  —  Watchdog apologises for security breach in which names and addresses were accessible as far back as 2021 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TSMC agrees to build a €10B plant in Germany’s Dresden, owning 70% of the facility with Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each holding 10% stake, set to open in 2027  —  – Taiwanese giant will own 70% of fab in eastern city of Dresden  — Facility to supply auto, industrial sectors starting in 2027 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Forbes: A profile of Wiz co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport, who sold Adallom to Microsoft for $320M in 2015 before building the $10B Israeli cloud security startup  —  $200 million in sales.  A $10 billion valuation.  New billionaire Assaf Rappaport has built Wiz into one of software’s fastest-growing startups ever. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeff Kosseff / Wired: A SCOTUS opinion in the NetChoice cases challenging social media content moderation laws in Texas and Florida will be far more impactful than Gonzalez v. Google  —  Forget Gonzalez v. Google.  There’s another dispute that will come before the justices in the next year and this time they … Lees verder op Tech Meme