Cloudera

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Financial services institutions need the ability to analyze and act on massive volumes of data from diverse sources in order to monitor, model, and manage risk across the enterprise. They need a comprehensive data and analytics platform to model risk exposures on-demand. Cloudera is that platform. I am pleased to announce that Cloudera was just named the Risk Data Repository and Data Management Product of the Year in the Risk Markets Technology Awards 2021. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Jessica Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jessica is on the growth marketing team at Zageno, a multi-vendor, online marketplace for life science products, and is head of content at Elpha, a Y Combinator-backed community of 40K+ women in tech. More posts by this contributor. How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies. Fundraising is challenging, especially for deep tech founders who need to get investors excited about a complex technology, a complex sales cycle and a complex ri

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Bilal Zuberi, Partner at Lux Capital, has heard a lot of ideas. What separates him from most is how quickly he’s able to separate the truly great and innovative ideas […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Latitude , a startup building games with “infinite storylines” generated by artificial intelligence, is announcing that it has raised $3.3 million in seed funding. The idea of an AI-generated story might make you think of hilariously nonsensical experiments like “Sunspring,” but Latitude’s first title, AI Dungeon , is an impressively open-ended (and coherent) text adventure game where you can choose from a wide variety of genres and characters.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

MongoDB, the leading, modern general-purpose database platform, announced the launch of a global partnership with Tencent Cloud that allows customers to easily adopt and use MongoDB-as-a-Service across Tencent’s global cloud […].

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Read how Aerospike’s NoSQL database can help businesses in saving costs and at the same time getting maximum results on CIO : Aerospike’s NoSQL Data Platform delivered a consistent performance […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With more of us spending significant amounts of time at home because of COVID-19, our attention has turned increasingly to how and what we eat. Even for those who like to cook, but especially for those who might not have the time or inclination, it can be a challenge to come up with tasty, nutritious and new things to eat all the time. Today, one of the startups that has seen a lift in its business as a result of that is announcing a round of funding to expand its operations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Training and Development (TD) award-winning learning and development leaders share their insights from past successes and discuss the future of learning and development on Asking For a Friend Live with Karin Hurt. We ground the discussion in their new book Forward Focused […]. The post The Future of Learning and Development: Best Practices and Insights appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 million in seed funding from Crowd Media Holdings , an Australia-based company focused on influencer-based ‘social commerce’ and marketing. It’s taking a 10% stake in Aflorithmic, per a press release , where it says the strategic investment is aimed at enabling it to offer FaceTime conversations with celebrities through “best-in-class voice cloning technology” Two year old Afl

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Leaders play a vital role in employee development and that includes sharing developmental feedback. But an effective performance conversation requires an even temper. Keep these five principles in mind to help you keep your cool. We’d just finished a live online leadership […]. The post How to Lead a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today, two giants of the cannabis industry are announcing a partnership to create an improved retail experience for consumers and dispensaries alike. Through this partnership, Leafly and Jane’s technology solutions will offer dispensaries powerful tools to sync online e-commerce with in-store inventory — something that is sorely lacking in the cannabis world.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Elastic is the company behind the the Elastic Stack, which is Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, Elastic help people […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Genetics testing and genome research company 23andMe is set to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) VG Acquisition Corp., a vehicle set up by Richard Branson and his company Virgin Group. The transaction is expected to result in 23andMe having around $984 million in cash available at close to spend on product development, hires and other growth strategies, and will value the company at around $3.5 billion, close to the total cited by an earlier report detailing

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Many cybersecurity team leaders continue to face challenges in finding qualified cybersecurity professionals to fill jobs at their organizations, despite the relatively high salaries and stability associated with jobs in the field.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Marketing software company HubSpot is acquiring The Hustle , the business and tech media startup behind the popular newsletter of the same name. Axios broke the news of the deal and reported that it values the startup at around $27 million. HubSpot declined to comment on the deal price, and while tweeting about the acquisition, The Hustle CEO Sam Parr wrote , “Early in my career I was transparent with money.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Lux Capital is early-stage Venture Capital that focuses on emerging science and technology capabilities. They proudly focus on inventors challenging the status quo and the laws of nature to bring […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Flux , the London fintech that has built a technology platform for banks and merchants to power itemised digital receipts and more, has seen its lengthy pilot with Barclays bear fruit. Announced formally today — but actually quietly rolled out a few months ago — Flux-powered digital receipts are now available as an opt-in for all U.K. Barclays debit card holders within the bank’s main mobile banking app.

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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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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The promise of low-code development has long been the ability to develop business-critical applications by humans with little programming experience. In fact, over the past year or two, the lines between low-code and no-code have become increasingly blurred. Low-code platforms have incorporated more and more functional no-code features to increase the efficiency of the developer […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As startups have stayed private longer and liquidity has become harder to secure for early employees and investors, more and more shareholders have looked for ways to unload their shares to others. All the way back in 2011 , companies like SecondMarket were seeing nine-figures’ worth of shares being traded on their secondary share platforms. That wave of liquidity startups ran into two problems: One was regulatory, and the other was a lack of company information about cap tables and that c

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Read Nik Everett explain how Elastic NV is making date histogram aggregations faster with their new Elasticsearch 7.11 on Elastic Blog: Elasticsearch’s date_histogram aggregation is the cornerstone of Kibana’s Discover. […].

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. Now, Rad Power Bikes is reaping those rewards and using them to double its workforce and scale globally. The Seattle-based startup said Thursday it has raised $150 million from institutional investors including Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global Fund, Fidelity Management & Research Company, TPG’s global impact investing platform The Rise

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Aqua Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Back in November 2020, we introduced the Starboard Operator, which automates vulnerability scanning in a Kubernetes environment. We’re now pleased to announce the latest release (release v0.9) which adds configuration auditing using Polaris. This means that the Operator can automatically check for weaknesses in the way your Kubernetes workloads are configured, as well as scan them for vulnerabilities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Meet moka.care , a French startup that has built several services that should help you improve your psychological well-being. The company sells its solution to employers directly. They can then offer access to moka.care to their employees. The startup raised a $3 million (€2.5 million) funding round from Singular , the VC firm founded by former Alven partners Jeremy Uzan and Raffi Kamber.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Enterprises accelerated their adoption of AI and machine learning in 2020, concentrating on those initiatives that deliver revenue growth and cost reduction. Consistent with many other surveys of enterprises’ AI […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Mountaintop, a sort of supergroup game development studio founded by veterans from a multitude of other major companies in the industry, has collected a $5.5 seed round from friends and family, and announced that their first title will be a PvP shooter. The company emerged last summer, headed by Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell and several others from larger gaming concerns that decided to strike off on their own.

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Dataiku

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In the prior posts in the How They Work (In Plain English!) series, we went through a high-level overview of machine learning and explored two key categories of supervised learning algorithms ( linear and tree-based models ), two key unsupervised learning techniques ( clustering and dimensionality reduction ), and recommendation engines which can use either supervised or unsupervised learning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Joompay , a startup with an iOS and Android app similar to Venmo and TransferWise, has now launched in Europe after obtaining a Luxembourg Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license. The app allows people to send and receive money with anyone, instantly and for free. However, it enters a crowded market, competing with peer to peer payment features from the likes of Revolut, N26, Monese and Monzo.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

AppDynamics today announced its agent software, which it provides as part of its observability platform, now has the ability to enforce application security policies. Developed in collaboration with the security business unit of parent company Cisco, the Cisco Secure Application offering, available from AppDynamics, can detect attacks, identify deviations in application behavior and block attacks […].

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