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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

TechCrunch

According to one survey , only 10% of contact center agents reach proficiency in fewer than two months. “[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email.

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Reveal raises $50M to espouse the benefits of partner ecosystems

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In a 2018 Accenture survey , 76% of business leaders said that current business models will be unrecognizable in the next five years, with ecosystems being the main change agent. ” Before launching Reveal in 2020, Bouchez was the CEO of Multiposting, an HR tech startup, until 2018, when it was acquired by SAP.

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

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The tranche values the company at $250 million post-money, and cofounder and CEO Sid Upadhyay says that it’ll be put toward growing WizeHire’s over-100-person headcount, expanding the company’s hiring resources and “further establish[ing]” relationships with technical partners.

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Data observability startup Observe secures $70M

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A survey from Enterprise Strategy Group commissioned by Yotascale — which isn’t an impartial vendor, granted (if there is such a thing) — found that 84% of companies in 2022 considered tracking cloud cost allocation alone to be burdensome and time-consuming. billion in worth in 2020 to $19.38 billion in 2024.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. Freddy Mallet, SonarSource’s second cofounder, was a project architect at E-Trade and CTO at agtech startup Hortis.

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Modular secures $100M to build tools to optimize and create AI models

TechCrunch

“Because we operate in a deeply technical space that requires highly specialized expertise, we intend to use this funding to support the growth of our team,” Lattner said in an email interview with TechCrunch. According to one survey , as of 2020, 87% of data scientists used Python on a regular basis.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

I wrote about this idea back in 2020, in a piece called “ Welcome to the 21st Century ,” in the context of using scenario planning to imagine the post-COVID future. But it’s super hard to do from a technical standpoint and you give up a bunch of other things. The audience feels present in the story with them.

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