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Ashley Bowden Ashley Bowden
Published on April 08, 2025

Kin + Carta Hires New VP, Amount Raised $81M, and More Chicago Tech News

Last week, Chicago tech companies saw innovations in finding parking spaces as well as virtual gift giving. Read Built In Chicago’s weekly refresh to find out what else is new in the Chicago tech space.

Gordon Gottsegen Gordon Gottsegen
Updated on April 08, 2025

dough Raises $20M for Its Commission-Free Brokerage Firm

That's a lot of dough.

Andreas Rekdal Andreas Rekdal
Updated on April 08, 2025

To Akuna Capital's CTO, challenges are the best parts of the job

As CTO of a fast-growing derivatives trading firm, Chris Smith knows a thing or two about performance optimization. Akuna Capital’s trading systems have to withstand unpredictable moments of volatility and market moves, during which data throughput can be ten times higher than usual.

Updated on April 08, 2025

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