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Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M

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A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. In the worst case, the consequences can be severe.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Crypto tax prep, no-code survey, 4 VCs discuss how to pitch them

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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How to Become a Software Developer Fast?

The Crazy Programmer

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts a 22% growth in employment rate for software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers from 2019 to 2029 — which exceeds, by the 4% average for all employers. Software development as a skill is lucrative , regardless of if you have a software development degree or not.

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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

TechCrunch

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019. Image Credits: AllSpice.

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

TechCrunch

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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Qapita, a developer of equity management software for startups, raises $5M led by MassMutual Ventures

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Qapita , a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A funding. Its software platform helps private companies digitize and manage cap tables, perform due diligence and issue equity to employees.