Related articles: Top 7 Venture Capital funds in ChileThe financial and economic turmoil that has plagued Argentina for so long now does not put a dampener on investors.

Indeed, over the years, many once-active VCs have withered away, with the Argentinian venture capital ecosystem going on to diverge into local investors branching out into the world to secure their assets, or foreign-sourced capital coming into Argentina to reap the rewards of low liquidity, high interest rates and inflation.

Related article: Top 9 Venture Capital funds in MexicoNXTP is an early-stage VC with a penchant for balanced diversity.

That honor goes to Brazil with 28 companies in this Argentine fund’s portfolio, followed by six in Mexico, and far behind is Argentina with five startup investments.

Key exits: Properati, RecargaPayLatest investment: Wondey on March 28, 2018Honorable MentionsQuasar VenturesCAP VenturesAxVenturesOikos Venture CapitalRelated articles: Tech and startups in Argentina! | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582146007.7816186/Top-5-Venture-Capital-funds-in-Argentina?ref=audio_experience

Below, we identify 9 ways that Tencent’s portfolio companies or owned healthcare assets are leveraging WeChat’s ecosystem to upend various parts of Chinese healthcare.

get the full healthcare q4 report Healthcare startups globally closed over 4,900 rounds in 2019, surpassing a record-breaking 2018.

Tencent has also been building its own healthcare assets on WeChat, as well as investing continuously in the healthcare space.

Consumer-Facing Knowledge PlatformIn 2017, Tencent launched Tencent Medical Knowledge Bank (Tencent Yidian), a WeChat-native healthcare knowledge platform featuring vetted, consumer-facing educational content.

Provider-Facing Knowledge & AUTHENTICATION PlatformWith 4.6M members, the Chinese Medical Doctor Association (CMDA) is China’s largest medical association. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582144207.5919662/9-Ways-The-WeChat-Super-App-Is-Becoming-The-Front-Door-To-Chinese-Healthcare?ref=audio_experience

This new funding milestone sets a new record for Toronto tech funding.

Investments in GTA tech increased to $3.1 billion CAD, up 68 percent from the year before.

OneEleven and Hockeystick’s quarterly tech ecosystem report for the GTA looked at ecosystem growth in the fourth quarter and full year of 2019.

The report found that investments increased to $3.1 billion (all numbers CAD), up 68 percent from the year before.

The numbers from the Hockeystick report come in contrast to PwC’s most recent MoneyTree report. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582142614.0515215/Tech-funding-in-the-GTA-reaches-record-$3.1-billion-in-2019,-report-finds?ref=audio_experience

0 Shares EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInJust eight months after raising $120 million, cybersecurity company SentinelOne has raised a $200 million Series E round at a $1.1 billion valuation.

Insight Partners led the latest round, with participation from Tiger Global Management, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, Vista Public Strategies of Vista Equity Partners, Third Point Ventures, and more.

The idea, and differentiator, of SentinelOne is that the company uses artificial intelligence to fight endpoint attacks on security in real time.

In the cybersecurity context, endpoint security “refers to a methodology of protecting the corporate network when accessed via remote devices such as laptops or other wireless and mobile devices.

Each is a separate endpoint, and from a security angle, a separate way to hack into sensitive information. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582140607.5449996/SentinelOne-Lands-$200M-Just-Eight-Months-After-Last-Raise,-Reaches-Unicorn-Status?ref=audio_experience

Over the last few years, vast numbers of businesses have chosen to develop their websites with a mobile-first model.

The entertainment platform is a primary example of businesses seeking to alter their website designs to cater to the demands of mobile users.

In moving to a mobile-first approach, YouTube has introduced a new night mode, which demonstrates a switch towards enhancing remote experiences for users.

As highlighted by YouTube’s implementation of the night mode feature, businesses are adopting a mobile-first approach with the purpose of enhancing user experiences and heightening platform accessibility.

Mobile-First Designs are the FutureUltimately, there can be no doubt that further global businesses will adopt a mobile-first approach to website design in the foreseeable future. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582138831.2852268/Why-Businesses-are-Moving-to-a-Mobile-First-Model?ref=audio_experience

Learn more about his journey and where he hopes to take the Diversity Org in the future.

A 2018 graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and former participant in NYU’s Entrepreneurial Institute (Leslie eLab) LaunchPad program, Joshua is the founder of The Diversity Org.

The Diversity Org provides underserved high school students career education, college preparedness training, professional mentoring, and corporate internship opportunities.

Seeds of Future Success Cultivated by the NYU LaunchPadWhile at community college, Joshua had the original idea for the Diversity Org.

(At this time the Diversity Org operated under a for-profit, LLC business model.) | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582137008.0987937/LaunchPad-Success-Story:-Joshua-Pierce,-The-Diversity-Org-Founder-Gives-First?ref=audio_experience

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Businesses across industries are deploying ingenious CPaaS solutions to embed real-time communication features, i.e., voice, videos, and text within their platforms without having to additionally invest in backend infrastructure and interfaces.

Let’s take a look at some of the trends that will take CPaaS industry to new heights this year.

In 2020, we expect Asia to catch up with the trend and witness multi-fold growth in demand for CPaaS solutions, driven by factors like pervasive connectivity and high digital transformation adoption rates in the region.

Richer experience with full-stackAffordable devices and data have already empowered consumers to experience digital communications.

Furthermore, business benefits such as low overhead costs, low risk involved, increased ROI, and insights for intelligent decision-making will make CPaaS the quintessential real-time communication tool for brands in 2020. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582133406.2976525/Why-2020-will-be-a-year-of-transformation-for-the-CPaaS-industry?ref=audio_experience

As cybercrime continues to evolve and expand, a startup that is building a business focused on endpoint security has raised a big round of funding.

In other words, the company has more than doubled its valuation in less than a year — a sign of the cybersecurity times.

Endpoint security, the area where SentinelOne concentrates its efforts, last year was estimated to be around an $8 billion market, and analysts project that it could be worth as much as $18.4 billion by 2024.

One of the key differentiators is the focus on using AI, and using it at scale to help mitigate an increasingly complex threat landscape, to take endpoint security to the next level.

“Competition in the endpoint market has cleared with a select few exhibiting the necessary vision and technology to flourish in an increasingly volatile threat landscape,” said Teddie Wardi, MD of Insight Partners, in a statement. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582131607.5688896/SentinelOne-raises-$200M-at-a-$1.1B-valuation-to-expand-its-AI-based-endpoint-security-platform-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

With a huge population making their digital presence on social media, businesses are also getting their virtual space ready for social commerce.

Using social media as a platform to promote, sell and purchase products and services, is what we call social commerce.

It is a subset of e-commerce, where they can use social media to build social interaction.

Now, we will discuss some apt examples of social commerce and smart social selling.

Taggbox– The Magic of Social Media AggregatingTalking about social commerce, what else can create an overall impact on a digital platform than a social media aggregator! | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582129911.5645065/Social-Commerce:-7-Awesome-Examples-of-Smart-Social-Selling?ref=audio_experience