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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

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” Mitchell co-launched Valence, which is New York-based, in 2017 with Levi Goertz. To wit, the platform has team members complete surveys that ask them to rate the truthfulness of statements like “We make decisions quickly” and “We focus on the most important things.” billion last year.

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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

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According to one survey , only 10% of contact center agents reach proficiency in fewer than two months. ” Shamia cofounded Replicant in 2017 alongside Andrew Abraham, Benjamin Gleitzman, and Jack Abraham. We will increase our sales and marketing investment to capture the significant demand we see.

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Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack

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. “As machine learning models usage grows exponentially in production use cases, we see AI builders needing products and solutions to make AI systems more secure, while recognizing the unique needs and threats surrounding machine learning code,” Swanson told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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Tive, a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raises $54M

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Census survey reporting that they’ve experienced delays with domestic suppliers. According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

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The recent AI boom has sparked plenty of conversations around its potential to eliminate jobs, but a survey of 1,400 US business leaders by the Upwork Research Institute found that 49% of hiring managers plan to hire more independent and full-time employees in response to the demand for AI skills.

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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

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More than one in three Black participants in the 2017 survey said they left a job or company due to unfairness within the past year. Code-switching is the act of changing your behavior to better fit in to an environment and avoid drawing negative attention.

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Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more

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We conducted an early round due to tripling our customer base in 2023,” Atias told TechCrunch in an email interview. Hexa also provides a range of 3D viewer apps for customers to use, including ones for the web and AR, plus code that can be used to insert models into social media posts and video games. million in total capital.

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