TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

As far as I can tell, low-code and no-code services are rapidly proving that prior models for products as broad as enterprise app creation and AI-powered data analytics were lackluster. My evidence? A mix of public- and private-market low- and no-code companies are putting up impressive results. The Exchange caught up with Appian CEO Matt Calkins after his enterprise app software company reported its first-quarter performance to discuss the low-code market and what he’s hearing in customer

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Change Starts Here

MAY 12, 2021

I’ve recently partnered with DesignThinkers Group, USA to explore how the disciplines of Design Thinking and Change Management can expand the impact of both. This Venn diagram highlights some of the similarities and differences between Design Thinking and Change Management. I’ll explore these at a high level below.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

This morning Treasury Prime , a banking-as-a-service startup that delivers its product via APIs, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B. The capital comes around a year since the startup announced its Series A , and around 1.5 years since it raised its preceding round. For Treasury Prime, the new capital was an internal affair, with prior investors stepping up to lead its new round of funding.

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The Crazy Programmer

MAY 12, 2021

Companies everywhere are handling more data than ever and all these terabytes of data need to be stored somewhere. Should you store the data in a database, a data warehouse, or a data lake? How do you know what is best for your company? Choosing the right data storage solution will depend greatly on how the data is going to be used. While both a data lake and a data warehouse share the goal of the process data queries to facilitate analytics, their functions are different.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Indianapolis-based startup Socio , which helps plan hybrid in-person and virtual events. The two companies did not share the purchase price. Socio provides a missing hybrid event management component for the company to add to its Webex platform. The goal appears to be to combine this with the recent purchase of Slido and transform Webex from an application mostly for video meetings into a more comprehensive event platform. “As part of

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based startup’s new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital payments all over the world, and Latin America is no exception.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

Read Alex Woodie explain how Aerospike is pushing Spark machine learning training with pushdown processing on Datanami : Companies that need to access a lot of data in a hurry, such as retraining a machine learning model in Spark, have traditionally had to move that data from the edge to a central repository, such as […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

On a recent episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm invited Yext CFO Steve Cakebread and Latch CFO Garth Mitchell on to discuss when companies should go public, the costs and benefits of the process, and when a SPAC can make sense. Yext pursued a traditional IPO a few years back ; Latch is now going public via a blank-check company combination.

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Toptal

MAY 12, 2021

Indexes and partitioning can help with SQL performance, but they're not cure-alls. Through everyday examples of date range and LIKE queries, find out how to "think like an RDBMS" to make yours run faster.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

With so much focus on the “creator economy”, and countries hit by the effects of the pandemic, the self-employed market is “booming”, for good or for ill. So it’s not too much of a surprise that Collective , a subscription-based back-office platform for the self-employed has raised a $20 million Series A funding after launching only late last year.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

The price of Ether surged past $3,000 on May 4 making its creator, Vitalik Buterin, the world’s youngest crypto billionaire at the age of 27. Cryptocurrency ether extended gains to another record peak, after breaking above $3,000 for the first time a day earlier as investors bet on its growing utility. Early in Asia trade it […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Do you and your early-stage startup have what it takes to be a modern-day gladiator and compete in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 ? You won’t know unless you apply, and time is running out. You have only 48 hours left to throw your helmet into the ring. If you want to compete for glory, global exposure and $100,000 in equity-free prize money, apply to Startup Battlefield here before May 13 at 11:59 p.m.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

Read Mark Wright explains how converging technologies are driving up usage of Elasticsearch on EE Times. Digital convergence is happening all around us as technologies that were originally unrelated come together in exciting new ways. The iPhone is a perfect example, combining a phone with a computer, a camera and sensors to deliver an outstanding […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Can I transfer my H-1B to a startup I founded?

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Confluent

MAY 12, 2021

We are excited to announce that Confluent for Kubernetes is generally available! Today, we are enabling our customers to realize many of the benefits of our cloud service with the […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

As the famous phrase goes, “software is eating the world” — and now software is eating dentistry. Or, perhaps more accurately, the arena of orthodontics — the specialty of dentistry that deals with things like braces — is slowly but surely being digitalized. To whit, Impress , a Southern European player in direct-to-consumer orthodontics, has raised a $50 million Series A funding round led by CareCapital (a dental division of Hillhouse Capital in Asia), along with Nickleby Capi

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

A DeFi platform says its decentralized approach to leveraged trading offers crucial advantages over centralized rivals. Gains.farm says it offers real-time prices and lightning-fast transactions — and boasts a network of five Chainlink nodes that delivers up-to-date information from seven trusted data sources, with results that are aggregated by taking the median two times.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Amplitude, the well-funded product intelligence startup that helps businesses use their data to predict which features will drive the best business outcomes for them, today announced that it has acquired Iteratively , a startup that helps businesses build trustworthy data pipelines. Since data is at the core of Amplitude’s services, this acquisition will help the company bolster its data management capabilities that power many of its features, including its recently launched personalized r

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DevOps.com

MAY 12, 2021

Anybody paying attention to world news will notice that the threats and risks perpetrated by cybercriminal actors, in many forms, is a serious problem on the rise, affecting individuals, organizations and nations daily. The cybersecurity threat space is indeed alarming and growing rapidly. The cybersecurity solution space is struggling to keep up. After all, there […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Having a great idea for an app or game is one thing, but scaling it to become a successful business is quite another. A new fintech startup called Sanlo aims to help. The company, which is today announcing an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed round, offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

Critics of IBM say the American tech icon went the hybrid cloud way because it lost the fight to become a public cloud hyper-scaler to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Hybrid clouds are a combination of privately-owned computer servers and networks and machines and services rented off the internet. Public ones, on the other hand, […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Bird, the shared electric scooter startup that operates in more than 200 cities across three continents, said Wednesday it is going public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Switchback II with an implied valuation of $2.3 billion. The announcement confirms earlier reports, including one this week from dot.LA , that Bird intended to go public via a SPAC.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

There’s a good chance Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is going to be around for a while, Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) co-founder Joe Lonsdale said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” If Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX, decides he wants to make Dogecoin a currency on Mars, “I bet you he could do it,” Lonsdale […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Atomized , an early-stage startup that wants to create a modern tool to help developers deploy infrastructure faster, announced the first step of its funding journey today, a $500,000 pre-seed round from Zing Capital, Y Combinator and several unnamed angels. Company co-founder and CEO Nik Kotov says developers are spending over 20% of their time on setting up the necessary infrastructure just to run their applications, and he and his co-founder and CTO Eddie Herbert believed there had to be a be

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TechBeacon

MAY 12, 2021

The discipline of site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to spread throughout ops teams and IT organizations worldwide, opening up new career pathways for developers and IT Ops and ITSM professionals. According to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, some 22% of the 2,000-plus respondents have adopted SRE, compared to 15% in the previous year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

When eventually they become a working reality, quantum computers won’t be of much value if they simply sit there on their own. Just like the internet, the value is in the network. But right now there’s scant technology to link these powerful devices. That’s where QphoX comes in. This Dutch startup has raised €2 million to connect quantum computers with a “quantum modem” The funding round was led by Quantonation, Speedinvest and High-Tech Gründerfonds, with participation from TU Delft

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

Hack the Capitol is the yearly stand-alone event from ICS Village, a touring industrial security education group most often seen bringing hands-on control systems demonstrations to security conferences. The annual event returns on Tuesday for a virtual presentation, including keynotes from Reps. Robert Whitman, John Katko, Yvette Clark and Ted Lieu, and panelists spanning academia, […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 million round of seed funding led by San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). São Paulo-based Divibank was founded in March 2020, right as the COVID-pandemic was starting. The company has built a data-driven financing platform aimed at giving businesses access to non-dilutive capital to finance their growth via revenue-share financing.

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