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Fintech startup Vise raises $65 million in Series C led by Ribbit Capital

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Vise uses an AI-powered platform to give independent financial advisors the same level of data as advisories with their own analyst departments. Vise does a lot of heavy lifting where the latter is concerned, freeing up advisors to focus on the former. The end goal is to “enable financial freedom for everyone.”

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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CEO Jon Perl tells TechCrunch that the new cash will go toward expanding QA Wolf’s engineering team as well as ongoing sales and marketing efforts. Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

AWS licensed their technology , rebranded it Redshift, and launched in 2012. If you looked at Redshift in 2012, there was a lot of things that favored it. Snowflake's projected 8 2022 research and development costs are 20% of revenue, and their sales and marketing costs are 48%! I'm very happy we're out of this era.

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Senior care startup Honor secures $370M in debt and equity, reaches unicorn status

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a startup focused on in-home care for older adults, after selling chat service Meebo to Google for about $100 million in 2012. Perceptive Advisors led the debt financing with a “significant” commitment from Ares Management funds. Prior to acquiring Home Instead, Honor was in select markets and launched into eight states. “We

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Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day

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The collection of companies is, however, defined by a wide range of focuses, from pioneering diabetes treatments to retrofitting autonomous trucking, curated by the SkyDeck’s small team and a number of advisors. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system.

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Does IT Infrastructure really matter? YES!

Infinidat

All the way back in 2012 “ The Google Gospel of Speed ” said this: “Our research shows that if search results are slowed by even a fraction of a second, people search less (seriously: A 400ms delay leads to a 0.44 Ken Steinhardt serves as Field CTO at Infinidat. Not a commodity! Performance. How do we do it? Ken Steinhardt.

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

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Launched in October 2012, the DARPA Robotics Challenge has held two of three competitions -– a virtual event in June 2013 and a live two-day event held Dec. The technology will be ready for commercialization if a market can be found in the commercial world for it,” Pratt said. WASHINGTON, Feb.