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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

TechCrunch

CEO Jorey Ramer, who co-founded the company with Ryan Donnelly (VP of engineering), also said that another part of the investment will be used to enhance the AI tech that underpins Super’s service and pricing plans. More on that below. — Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

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Banks and other financial institutions must follow know your customer (KYC) guidelines, but private equity funds have a loophole: They are not legally bound to tell regulators who their investors are — or if they’re behaving suspiciously. .” Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction.

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

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Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

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How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

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For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. In this interview, Buriticá delves into the ins and outs of sourcing engineers in other countries, including universal lessons he’s learned from his own very particular experiences.