TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

RevenueCat , a startup offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, valuing its business at $300 million, post-money. Founded by developers who understood the difficulties in scaling a subscription app first-hand, RevenueCat’s software development kit (SDK) solution gives companies the tools they need to build a subscription business, including not just adding subscriptions themselves, but maintaining them over time even

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DevOps.com

MAY 27, 2021

Attracted by lower costs and less operational overhead, serverless computing is an unmistakable undercurrent in the world of DevOps. Developers are drawn to the innovation because it requires no architecture to manage while offering continuous scaling for anything from a few requests per day to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. More than 50% […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

CorrActions , a noninvasive neuroscience startup that uses sensor data to evaluate a user’s cognitive state due to drowsiness, alcohol, fatigue and other issues, today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed round. Early-stage fund VentureIsrael , seed fund Operator Partners and the Israeli Innovation Authority are backing the company, which is based out of OurCrowd’s Labs/02 incubator.

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DevOps.com

MAY 27, 2021

“Move fast and break things,” is a familiar motto. The phrase, attributed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helps to explain the company’s stellar growth over the past decade, driven by its product innovations. However, while it’s a useful philosophy for software development, moving faster than you’d planned is a risky approach in other areas, as […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Augmented reality and non-fungible tokens, need I say more? Yes? Oh, well NFTs have certainly had their moment in 2021, but the question of what they do or what can be done with them has certainly been getting voiced more frequently as the speculative gold rush begins to cool off and people start to think more about how digital goods can evolve in the future.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Orbiit , a startup that automates the interactions within an online community, has raised a $2.7 million round led by Bread and Butter Ventures , with participation from new investors High Alpha Capital , LAUNCHub Ventures and Company Ventures. Existing investors Founders Fund, which led Orbiit’s $1 million pre-seed round, Acceleprise and other angels also participated.

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Cloudera

MAY 27, 2021

This blog post was written by Pedro Pereira as a guest author for Cloudera. . Right now, someone somewhere is writing the next fake news story or editing a deepfake video. An authoritarian regime is manipulating an artificial intelligence (AI) system to spy on technology users. No matter how good the intentions behind the development of a technology, someone is bound to corrupt and manipulate it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Boston-based Filtered.ai has raised a $7 million round to accelerate its hiring cadence, and built out the go-to-market model for its its engineering and developer-focused hiring service, it recently announced. TechCrunch caught up with the company to discuss not only why it decided to leave bootstrapping behind, but also to dig into how its service could widen the market for some technical roles.

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MAY 27, 2021

eCommerce giants such as Amazon and Etsy have been on top of their game by consistently adapting to market requirements and meeting customer expectations within.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Airspace Link is today announcing it raised a $10 million Series A from Altos Ventures, Thales and others. The Detroit, Michigan-based startup anticipates using the additional funds to expand its domestic offering and expand overseas. CEO Michael Healander explains to TechCrunch that the company sees airspaces as digital infrastructure lacking critical regulations. “Today you have rules and regulations on the road,” he says, explaining that the company is building digital roads and m

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Aqua Security

MAY 27, 2021

Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux, built to address common Linux security issues. By leveraging the advantages of Linux extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology to trace systems and applications at runtime, Tracee analyzes collected events to detect suspicious behavioral patterns. In this blog, I’ll share the lessons we learned from using eBPF and Linux Security Module (LSM) hooks to overcome Linux vulnerabilities such as Time-Of-Check to Time-Of-Use

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

On-demand grocery startups like Gorillas are invading Europe right now, but although on-demand-everything is kinda old-hat in the Bay Area, a new startup thinks it might just be able to do something new. Food Rocket says it has raised a $2 million investment round from AltaIR Capital, Baring Vostok fund and the Angelsdeck group of business angels, including Philipp Bashyan, of Russia’s Yonder, who has joined as an investor and advisor.

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TechBeacon

MAY 27, 2021

If yours is like most IT organizations, your team is doing some form of automation (both in development and operations), even if you're just running simple scripts to accomplish basic tasks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

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DevOps.com

MAY 27, 2021

The struggle for continuous software security is obvious, but the solutions are not. As I indicated in my prior blog, SecDevOps is the Solution to Cybersecurity, a security-first mindset, coupled with SecDevOps-specific practices, provides an opportunity to achieve true continuous security. But, in reality, how can an organization accomplish SecDevOps?

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Before the pandemic rendered us homebound, the houseplant industry was already in bloom. One year sequestered in our homes later, and our living spaces have flourished into our personal indoor gardens. . An app that uses machine learning to help people care for their plants, Greg announced today that it has received $5.4 million in seed funding. This round is led by Index with participation from First Round Capital.

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Tenable

MAY 27, 2021

The Department of Homeland Security has issued key guidance for oil and gas operations in the wake of recent cyberthreats. Here are three practical ways to disrupt attack paths in your OT infrastructure. . The oil and gas industry heavily depends on automation for a variety of different operations. The symphony of operations required to find, extract, refine, mix, collaborate and ultimately deliver oil and gas all rely on operational technology (OT) infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

As startups and venture capital grow in tandem, fundraising has gone from a formal affair on Sand Hill Road to a process that can happen anywhere from Twitter to Zoom. While fundraising may no longer require a trip to California, it might depend on whether you got an invite to a private audio app. And while you may not need to be an insider, second-time founders — largely male and white — still have a competitive advantage.

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DataRobot

MAY 27, 2021

For more than a year, the world has been grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic—easily the worst public-health crisis since the 1918 flu pandemic. More than half a million Americans have died from the novel coronavirus, and as of this writing India is seeing more than 300,000 new cases each day. With that alarming background, this seemed like an extremely appropriate time to talk with Michael Mina, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Wayflyer , a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. “Partners” of DST Global, QED Investors, Speedinvest and Zinal Growth — the family office of Guillaume Pousaz (founder of Checkout.com ) — also put money in the round. The raise comes just after Wayflyer raised $100 million in debt funding to support its cash advance product, and 14 months after the Dublin, Ireland-based startup launched

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Dell EMC

MAY 27, 2021

Together, Dell Technologies and VMware can help you build and operate cloud-native, disaggregated networks while monetizing your investments through the creation and sale of new enterprise services.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Most marketers today know how to send targeted communications to customers, and there are many tools to help, but when it comes to sending personalized in-house messages, there aren’t nearly as many options. Pyn , an early-stage startup based in Australia, wants to change that, and today it announced an $8 million seed round. Andreessen Horowitz led the investment with help from Accel and Ryan Sanders (the co-founder of BambooHR) and Scott Farquhar (co-founder and co-CEO at Atlassian).

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Megaport

MAY 27, 2021

The sheer number of variables in Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute pricing can be dizzying, but we can help you make sense of it all. We hear the confusion from customers all the time. What to make of Microsoft Azure’s ExpressRoute pricing? What’s the difference between standard and premium circuit pricing? Are pricing zones the same as Availability Zones?

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Breinify is a startup working to apply data science to personalization, and do it in a way that makes it accessible to nontechnical marketing employees to build more meaningful customer experiences. Today the company announced a funding round totaling $11 million. The investment was led by Gutbrain Ventures and PBJ Capital with participation from Streamlined Ventures, CXO Fund, Amino Capital, Startup Capital Ventures and Sterling Road.

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Aqua Security

MAY 27, 2021

Today, AWS announced the general availability of ECS Anywhere; a simple but powerful extension of AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) to manage containers wherever they run – Aqua has been working closely with AWS to deliver a unified security experience for ECS Anywhere so enterprises can embrace the cloud native deployment models that make the most sense for them – while enforcing a consistent set of security and compliance models and maintaining consolidated visibility across diversified work

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Another day, another unicorn public offering. Today it’s Acorns, a consumer fintech service that blends saving and investing into a freemium product. It’s a company that TechCrunch has covered extensively since its birth , including through the pandemic’s impact on its business, both good and bad. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. .

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General Leadership

MAY 27, 2021

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve been urging you to apply to Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 for weeks now, and you have just over 12 hours left before the application window slams shut on May 27 at 11:59 p.m. (PT). Don’t procrastinate — the experience alone, whether you win the $100,000 prize or not, can improve the trajectory of your business. Case in point: Mollie Breen started out as a mathematician at the National Security Agency before co-founding an IoT/OT security startup called Perygee.

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