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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

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Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. The tide is high for startup founders who are looking to raise their first round in October 2021. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent?

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Logi Analytics Expands Leadership Team with Key Executive Hires

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SVP of Engineering and VP of Alliances and Channels join executive team to drive continued growth MCLEAN, Virginia — March 9, 2021 — Logi Analytics, the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software teams, today announces the appointment of Vijay Pendyala as Senior VP of Engineering and Jeff Seifert as VP of Alliances and […].

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How do you select the right tech stack?

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So to help founders understand what a good tech stack should look like, we invited two experts on this topic, Preeti Somal , the EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp and Jill Wetzler , the VP of Engineering at Pilot , to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to discuss everything from evaluating vendors to making sure you can rely on an open source product.

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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

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Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. Masar, who has several startups under his belt, previously was the VP of engineering at Represent.com, an apparel e-commerce merchant. .”

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Remote raises $300M more, now at a $3B+ valuation, to manage payments and more for globally distributed workforces

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The size of the funding round and its timing — it’s been less than a year since Remote’s Series B, a $150 million round at a $1 billion+ valuation in July 2021 — underscores a couple of things. This Series C values Remote at over $3 billion.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

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billion in 2021). A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months. A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months.

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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

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In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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