TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Anchorage has raised an $80 million Series C funding round led by GIC, also known as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. Andreessen Horowitz, Blockchain Capital, Lux and Indico are also participating in today’s funding round. The thinking behind this funding round is quite simple. Some companies, such as Tesla or Square, have recently chosen to invest in cryptocurrencies.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
How to Inspire Better Team Innovation and Problem Solving It’s tragic when your attempt to protect your team members actually sabotages team innovation. If you really want a courageous culture, that means you go first. Your team is watching both what you […]. The post How to Accidentally Sabotage Team Innovation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
This morning Coinbase, an American cryptocurrency exchange, released an S-1 filing ahead of its direct listing. The company’s public debut has been hotly anticipated thanks to recent activity amongst bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets, the company’s controversial political positions , and its spiking valuation on private exchanges.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
We did it! The first iteration of content selection for Agile2021 is complete. We received hundreds of great submissions already and are looking forward to more when iteration two starts on March 1st, 2021. Our track team has gone through the submissions and have selected a handful to be included in the program. For the … Continued. The post Agile2021 Submission Iteration 1 Complete – What’s Next?
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 instructional material backed by the likes of TCV, Kleiner Perkins, Reach Capital and Owl Ventures, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series D round. The financing was led by new investor Franklin Templeton, and brings Newsela’s valuation to $1 billion. The new round is larger than the aggregate of Newsela’s prior capital raised to date.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
The sustainability focused shoe maker Allbirds has taken another step to green its supply chain with a small $2 million investment in a new company called Natural Fiber Welding. Announced this morning, the investment in Natural Fiber Welding will see Allbirds bring a vegan leather replacement option to customers by December 2021. It’s a natural addition for a company that has always billed itself as focused on environmental impact in other aspects of its apparel manufacturing.
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Pet tech company Fi today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B. The round, led by Chuck Murphy of Longview Asset Management, follows a $7 million Series A raised back in 2019. The round values the startup at north of $200 million. The New York-based startup specializes in connected dog collars, releasing its Series 2 device late last year.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively, and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, unused cloud resources. Spot instances are one of the most important ways to reduce the cost of public cloud services. Spot instances are […]. The post Why Every DevOps Team Needs a Spot Instance Strategy appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Lob is a startup promising to help businesses deliver physical mail more quickly and affordably, and with more personalization. The company estimates that its platform has been used to deliver mail to one in two U.S. households. And today, it’s announcing that it has raised $50 million in Series C funding. CEO Leore Avidar told me he founded Lob with Harry Zhang nearly a decade ago to “allow people to send mail programmatically.” Over time, the company has become increasingly f
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Read Matthew Nelson explain how Carahsoft’s ProSymmetry will help public sector enterprises on Executive Biz : Carahsoft Technology has started to offer ProSymmetry’s resource management product to the federal sector […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Memmo.me , a startup allowing users to pay celebrities for personalized video messages, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. “We’re really excited about our mission to break down these barriers [and help talent] connect one-to-one instead of one-to-thousands,” said co-founder and CEO Gustav Lundberg Toresson.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Matt Grimm, chief operating officer of Anduril, said the defense technology company has approximately 400 employees and plans to increase its workforce to 700 to 800 by the end of […].
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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Raena’s team, from left to right: chief operating officer Guo Xing Lim, chief executive officer Sreejita Deb and chief commercial officer Widelia Liu. Image Credits: Raena. Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers. After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed an interesting trend: customers were ordering batches of products from Raena every week and reselling them on social media and e-commerce platforms like Shopee
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Cathie Wood says Bitcoin is in “early days” given its new interest from institutions and its diverse use cases. Speaking as part of a panel for the Bloomberg Crypto Summit, […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Over the past year or so, voice transcription startup Otter.ai doubled down on the future of remote work by integrating its product with meeting apps like Zoom and Google Meet. With the COVID-19 pandemic having sent so many to work from home, those investments have paid off — the company has transcribed over 100 million meetings with more than 3 billion minutes, and has seen an 8x increase in revenues during 2020.
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Be the light – Accepting the call to become the change we seek. As Black History Month comes to a close, global communities and companies alike are left reflecting on recent historical events with shock, awe and a commitment to drive change. We find ourselves faced with the unhealed wounds of our past, a defining moment for our future and an opportunity to become the change we seek as citizens and professionals. .
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Every business needs to track fundamental financial information, but the data typically lives in a variety of silos making it a constant challenge to understand a company’s overall financial health. DataJoy , an early stage startup, wants to solve that issue. The company announced a $6 million seed round today led by Foundation Capital with help from Quarry VC, Partech Partners, IGSB, Bow Capital and SVB.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Toptal was an early adopter of an all-remote business model. As one of the leading remote workforces worldwide, Toptal strives to engage with other thought leaders and innovators in this space. In our latest on-demand webinar, Toptal Engineering Manager Marco Santos talks with James Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of TechForge Media, about best practices for remote engineering teams.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Accounting isn’t a topic that most people can get excited about — probably not even most accountants. But if you’re running any kind of business, there’s just no way around it. Santa Clara-based Docyt wants to make the life of small and medium business owners (and their accounting firms) a bit easier by using machine learning to handle a lot of the routine tasks around collecting financial data, digitizing receipts, categorization and — maybe most importantly —
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
DevOps Institute, in partnership with Catchpoint and VMware Tanzu, encourages IT professionals to share their insights into SRE teams, metrics and automation in 2021 BOCA RATON, Fla. – Feb. 25, 2021 – DevOps Institute, a global professional member association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the launch of the 2021 SRE Survey. […].
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
TreeCard , a U.K. yet-to-launch fintech offering a spending card made out of wood and the promise to fund reforesting via the interchange fees generated, has raised $5.1 million in seed funding. The round is led by EQT Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp and Episode 1. Angel investors also backing the startup include Matt Robinson (founder of GoCardless), Paul Forester (founder of Indeed) and Charlie Delingpole (founder of ComplyAdvantage).
Dataiku
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
When choosing a data science use case , it’s important to identify the potential business value (i.e., who will the project benefit, how will it change their current processes and habits), the level of necessary effort, and the likelihood of success (how much risk is involved). No matter the industry, often a great place to start for AI use cases is the office of finance within an organization, as the teams within that group work with a significant amount of data and do a lot of spreadsheet-base
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Maze has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Emergence Capital. The company lets you run user tests at scale so that you can get feedback before rolling out a design update or test copy. When you have a lot of users, you don’t want to roll out some changes before testing it first. Some companies run A/B tests on a small portion of users and gather feedback with custom forms and polls.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Introduction. So you have finally written and deployed your first microservice? Or maybe you have decided to embark on the microservices adventure to future-proof yourself? Either way, congratulations! It’s time to take the next step. It's time to set up monitoring!
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
While credit cards are commonplace in the United States, they are far less ubiquitous in many other countries, particularly those in Latin America. In Mexico in particular, cash remains the dominant method of payment with an estimated 86% of all payments being in the form of cash. But card usage is growing as more people are shopping online than ever before.
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Like many things about 2020, the search for funding in the middle of a pandemic tends to be a bit unconventional. I should know. My own company, Netdata, recently closed on an extension of our Series A. From my experience it is possible, even in a time of uncertainty, to make a successful case to […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to Raise Funding in the Midst of a Pandemic are those of the author Costa Tsaousis alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Monetizable mood boards might sound like the moonshot idea that no one asked for, but when you think about it, the vision is already informally happening in various corners of the internet. A young generation of users shops with community in mind, whether that’s buying merchandise from your favorite influencers or giving into those Instagram advertisements after spending way too much time on the grid.
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