Atlanta-based Huper has raised $1.5M in pre-seed funding from Nadia Partners, Link Ventures, and Jim Brown (Long Ridge Equity Partners) to build a security-first AI Chief of Staff. The platform launches alpha April 15 and aims to reduce the $438B annual productivity loss tied to management inefficiency. A security-first AI Chief of Staff designed to eliminate managerial drag while protecting

Dubai-based RemotePass has launched SpendCards, positioning itself as the first global payroll platform to offer corporate expense cards purpose-built for distributed international teams. The new feature addresses longstanding pain points for finance departments managing global workforces: delayed spending visibility, heavy manual reimbursement workflows across currencies, and unintended cross-bor