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Buildops, which develops software for commercial service entrepreneurs, has raised a C series of $ 127 million led by Meritech Capital to a post-money assessment of $ 1 billion– Commercial services Technology has not been historically considered to be “sexy”, but the need for innovation in space is enormous.
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