Techmeme: Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A — Skan.ai, an AI-enabled process discovery and operational intelligence platform, today closed $14 million in funding.

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Elliott Ackerman / Wired:

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Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes:

StrongDM, which grants and mediates user access to enterprise backend infrastructure and logs user actions in video replay, raises $17M Series A led by Sequoia — StrongDM, a single sign-on company for backend infrastructure, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series A led by Sequoia Capital.

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