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Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round

TechCrunch

Plus there is Moxie , where coaches create their own courses. Now a new startup — in beta since 2021 — hopes to become that platform where elite athletes can train mere mortals such as myself. What has not quite been cracked yet is the celebrity fitness class. Masters (see what they did there?)

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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

TechCrunch

-based PlayerData uses wearable technology and software tracking to give grass-roots and professional sports teams feedback on their training. It can, for instance, allow coaches to replay key moments from a game, even modeling different outcomes based on player positioning. It also has strong network effects, it says.

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Strive gets backing from Y Combinator to show kids that coding is fun

TechCrunch

million seed round led by Y Combinator (it is an alum of the accelerator program), with participation from Soma Capital, Goodwater Capital and individual investors like Crimson Education CEO Jamie Beaton, co-founder of WestBridge Capital and founding member of Sequoia India KP Balaraja, and Segment co-founder and ex-CTO Calvin French-Owen.

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I Wood’s interest in tech stems in part from her teen-age enthusiasm for gaming, and she says her father encouraged her to study computer science as a college undergraduate.

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What goes up must come down

TechCrunch

I also couldn’t help watching the train wreck of Elon Musk taking over Twitter and Meta’ s letting go of 11,000 people. Months after acquiring gamified finance mobile app startup Long Game, Truist Financial Corporation has introduced the Truist Foundry, an innovation division that it says “will function as a startup within the bank.”

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Careers in Tech: New Changes Means New Training

Linux Academy

What changes were your company going through when you first started looking for cloud training? There are teams who have already deployed containers and are serving a small fraction of our platform. The company is growing and I can’t call up the CTO to tell him that we can support everything except for this and that.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The engineering manager’s responsibilities enumerated in Charity’s 2018 post are: Recruit and hire and train your team. Or, the small crisis with engineering management. This is good.