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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

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Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It turns out that being able to write software is only a small part of the job.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Thus, its platform makes it “easy for these businesses to issue corporate expense cards (Visa for now) and software, mainly for sales and marketing teams, to track and control spending. Quick thoughts : Convoy is one of the very few — if not the only– devs- and engineer-focused platforms from Africa to get into Y Combinator.

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Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub’s Copilot with $23M in VC backing

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. “I realized that combining LLMs trained on code with my research on neural memory and reinforcement learning might allow us to build an AI software engineer that feels like a true colleague, not just a tool. “Magic aims to drastically reduce the time and financial cost of developing software,” Steinberger said.

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

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Coleman says Lilly Translate started as a passion project by a curious software engineer who had an idea for addressing a pain point of the Lilly Regulatory Affairs system portfolio: Business partners continually experienced delays and friction in translation services. Passion project pays off.

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Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the most effective offer to each shopper

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Conti (who founded the company with Lionel Vital and Joseph Gilley) is a former Uber software engineer and researcher himself. Conti said the platform has been used to send millions of dollars’ worth of promotions since July, with one clothing company seeing a 20% increase in net revenue. It also raised a $1.32

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Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed

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Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. and former LinkedIn software engineer and Rhodes Scholar, Derek Lyons, Ph.D. The interface of numbers would tax even the geekiest of CEOs.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS burn multiples, 8 fintech VCs spill the tea, all my apes gone

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But say that you are burning $2 million in a quarter, and you are only adding $500,000 of net new ARR. At less than zero, you are in a cash-flow-positive position, which is really hard to do. At less than zero, you are in a cash-flow-positive position, which is really hard to do. Thanks very much for reading, and have a great weekend.

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