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Social gaming platform Rec Room scores $20 million Series C

TechCrunch

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group. Existing investors, including First Round Capital, Index, Sequoia and DAG, also participated in the round. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.

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Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like many leaders we talk with, you’ve been on such a fast pivot this year, you may not have had all the strategic planning time you’d hoped for. Or, your business has changed so much, it’s the perfect time to […]. The post Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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PhotoRoom launches background-removal app on Android

TechCrunch

French startup PhotoRoom is launching its app on Android today. The company has been working on a utility photography app that lets you remove the background from a photo, swaps it for another background and tweaks your photo. And it’s been working well on iOS already as the company attended Y Combinator, doubled its annual recurring revenue to $2 million and raised a $1.2 million seed round.

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WebAssembly/Rust Tutorial: Pitch-perfect Audio Processing

Toptal

WebAssembly gives near-native performance to web apps and allows languages other than JavaScript—plus their libraries—to be used on the web. This tutorial leverages Rust and the Web Audio API to make a basic guitar tuner app that runs at 60 FPS, even on mobile.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Better Dairy picks up £1.6M seed funding to produce animal-free dairy

TechCrunch

Better Dairy , a U.K. startup developing animal-free dairy that was founded out of Entrepreneur First (EF), has picked up £1.6 million in seed funding. The London-based company is currently in the R&D stages of developing products that are “molecularly identical” to traditional dairy without using animals as part of the production process.

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UiPath files confidential IPO paperwork with SEC

TechCrunch

UiPath , the robotic process automation startup that has been growing like gangbusters, filed confidential paperwork with the SEC today ahead of a potential IPO. “ UiPath, Inc. today announced that it has submitted a draft registration statement on a confidential basis to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for a proposed public offering of its Class A common stock.

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A Time To Remember And A Time To Hope: Leadership Lessons From The Principal Of Columbine, Frank DeAngelis

Steve Farber

Some leadership skills are acquired through seminars and training. But the most important leadership lessons are found through experience, even the most unfortunate ones. Retired educator Frank DeAngelis sits down with Steve Farber to discuss. Read more. The post A Time To Remember And A Time To Hope: Leadership Lessons From The Principal Of Columbine, Frank DeAngelis first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Magdrive secures seed funding for new propulsion system which could take us to the stars

TechCrunch

A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4 million seed round led by Founders Fund, an early investor in SpaceX, backed by Luminous Ventures, 7percent Ventures and Entrepreneur First. Magdrive is developing a next generation of spacecraft propulsion for small satellites.

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Morpheus Data Adds Midmarket Edition of Hybrid Cloud Platform

DevOps.com

Morpheus Data announced today it is adding a more turnkey edition of its hybrid cloud platform aimed at midmarket IT organizations. Priced starting at $16,000, Morpheus Essentials can be deployed on VMware, Nutanix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with support for Kubernetes planned. At the same time, Morpheus Data […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Mental wellness platform Lyra Health is raising up to $175M at a $2.25B valuation

TechCrunch

The coronavirus pandemic has underscored, and often exacerbated, the mental health crisis that exists across the world. Even the spread of remote work is part of the problem: As everyone stays at home, the lack of interaction and watercooler chat has left employees without in-person interaction. The need for a solution has helped tech-powered mental health solutions raise funding to meet increased demand.

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Spring Your Microservices into Production with Kubernetes and GitOps

Confluent

Microservice architectures continue to grow within engineering organizations as teams strive to increase development velocity. Microservices promote the idea of modularity as a first-class citizen in a distributed architecture, enabling […].

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Austin’s edtech startup Aceable adds another $50 million for accelerated expansion

TechCrunch

Aceable , the Austin-based mobile edtech service for state-accredited classes, is getting an “A” from investors again as private equity firm HGGC pours $50 million into the company. In the eight years since Aceable’s launch, the company has grown from a driver’s ed test prep service to an online training tool for drivers and real estate agents.

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DISCO Closes $100 Million Q4 Funding Round

DevOps.com

Addition of $40 Million Debt Financing to October’s $60 Million Equity Financing will Further Fuel Product Innovation and Global Expansion AUSTIN — December 17, 2020 — DISCO today announced the completion of its $100 million fourth-quarter financing, bringing total investment in DISCO to $235 million and valuing the company at $785 million. The financing includes the previously […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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H1’s LinkedIn for the healthcare industry raises $58 million

TechCrunch

The idea sounds almost too simple. Create a version of LinkedIn that’s specifically for the healthcare industry, where professionals can find out not just who has what credentials, but also learn about the research those professionals are conducting and the specialties they have. In the middle of a global pandemic, when industry insiders are all trying to find out who is an expert in particular fields of medicine that are most impacted by a novel virus spreading like wildfire around the wo

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AI in the enterprise: 4 strategies to make your big push pay off

TechBeacon

Despite the recession, companies are still committed to investing in AI. They aren't just buying the technology, either; they're hiring experts, identifying the right places to deploy it, and initiating proofs of concept.

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GoCardless raises another $95M as it bets on open banking alongside its recurring payments network

TechCrunch

GoCardless , the London fintech that aims to become the one-stop shop globally for businesses that want to let customers pay via recurring bank payments, has raised $95 million in Series F funding. According to The Telegraph newspaper , this gives the company much coveted unicorn status. However, I understand the round values GoCardless at just over $970 million, meaning that the 2011-founded fintech is perhaps best described as a soonicorn (presuming these things are important to you).

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Kintaba Launches ‘Automations’ to Seamlessly Manage the Incident Response Process to Major Outages

DevOps.com

Kintaba is a modern incident management platform built by ex-Facebook engineers The company launched out of stealth earlier this year in February with $2.25 million in seed funding led by New York’s FirstMark Capital. NEW YORK, NY — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kintaba, the incident management platform built by ex-Facebook engineers, today launched Automations, a new […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app

TechCrunch

A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our view of the world is shaped by manipulative algorithms and personalized feeds. Through Gawq’s newly launched mobile news app, it aims to present news from a range of sources, while allowing users to filter between news, opinion, paid content, and more, as well as compare sources, check facts, and even review the publication’s content for acc

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AWS Well-Architected Framework Elevates Agility

DevOps.com

What started as a white paper from AWS, the Well-Architected Framework has evolved into a large ecosystem of partners and more In the past year, agility has become one of the most prized IT attributes as organizations race to deploy more workloads in the cloud. There is a paradox, however: The faster organizations deploy applications, […]. The post AWS Well-Architected Framework Elevates Agility appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Ramp raises $30M as the battle to own corporate spend heats up

TechCrunch

Corporate spend management startup Ramp has raised $30 million more in a new round, it announced today. TechCrunch covered Ramp’s launch earlier this year , when it also detailed that it had raised around $23 million up to that point. The startup raised its latest round in August of 2020, with conversations about the deal kicking off in June. The new capital is Ramp’s second priced raise after its August, 2019 seed round worth $8 million and the first after its February, 2020-era $15

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6 Tips to Survive the World’s First Holiday Lockdown Gaming Crunch

DevOps.com

‘Tis the season to be jolly … especially if you’re a gamer. The upcoming holiday gaming release schedule is a joy to behold for locked-down, socially distanced or just plain pandemic-fatigued game enthusiasts. For game studios and game developers, however, holiday releases have an entirely different connotation—the infamous crunch time. While views differ on the […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Canoo targets last-mile delivery with its second electric vehicle

TechCrunch

Canoo, the Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup that will make its debut later this month on the Nasdaq as a publicly traded company, revealed Thursday an all-electric multi-purpose delivery vehicle. . The electric delivery vehicle, which includes a high roof height, storage lockers and a software as a service platform to manage fleets, is targeted at both small businesses and large last-mile delivery companies such as package delivery fleets, retailers, major corporations and logistics co

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Error'd: Something Has Gone Wrong

The Daily WTF

"Ooh! That moment when you're listening to music and a you get a vague pop up message that fills you with existential dread," writes Noah B. . "You know, Domino's, you're right.I'm just not feeling null today," writes Mark W. . Greg wrote, "If you're going to output diagnostic data in Production, you might want to pick a section that isn't next to a (dubious?

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Health insurer Oscar adds another $140 million in what’s likely a pre-IPO round

TechCrunch

Oscar, the New York-based health insurance upstart at the vanguard of a wave of venture capital healthcare investment made in the wake of the Affordable Care Act, has raised another $140 million in financing. The new capital means that Oscar has raised what would be the equivalent of $1 million a day for the entirety of 2020. The company’s last funding round, a $225 million haul , came just a few short months ago in June.

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FTC digs into social ad-tech data privacy—pay attention

TechBeacon

The US Federal Trade Commission is “studying” social media’s use of private data. The agency seems particularly interested in how data is used for advertising—especially the data of minors.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools

TechCrunch

Businesses today feel, more than ever, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. That market driver has now led to a significant growth round for a startup that is helping the larger of these businesses, including those targeting the B2B market, build out their digital sales operations with more agile, responsive e-commerce solutions.

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Palo Alto Networks Rapid Response: Navigating the SolarStorm Attack

Palo Alto Networks

Since learning of the SolarWinds supply chain attack last weekend, security teams everywhere have been scrambling to determine whether they were compromised by the “SolarStorm” attacks. Every few hours a new compromised entity is identified. . They’re right to pay attention. We will soon be talking about this as one of the most serious cyberattacks in history.

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‘Gas stations in space’ startup Orbit Fab extends seed round to $6M with strategic investor Munich Re

TechCrunch

Orbit Fab CDO Jeremy Schiel shows off the company’s satellite coupling system on stage at TC Disrupt 2019. On-orbit servicing startup Orbit Fab, which bills itself as the company focused on creating “gas stations in space,” has added an additional investor to its seed funding round. The add-on investment comes from Munich Re Ventures (the corporate VC arm of Munich Re Group, one of the largest insurance companies in the world).

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