TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. After all, the food and restaurant industry was deemed essential amid global shutdowns, but finding kitchen staff proved a problem for many, especially early on when questions remained around COVID’s transmission. This week, California-based fast casual salad chain Sweetgreen announced plans to go all in on automation with the acquisition of Spyce.

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 25, 2021

Corey Ladas explains how Scrumban was intended to be a practical demonstration of achieving a continuous delivery process by means of an iterative improvement process. The post Remarks on the Original Scrumban Essay first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

While the rocket launch sector is quickly becoming crowded, the same can’t be said for companies developing suborbital spaceplanes. This means there’s plenty of room to grow for startups like Dawn Aerospace , which has now completed five test flights of its Mk-II Aurora spaceplane that is designed to fly up to 60 miles above the Earth’s surface. The flights, which took place at the Glentanner Aerodrome in New Zealand’s South Island in July, were to assess the vehicle’s airframe and avionics.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2021

Read why Bill Zettler says that data is the future of technology and Palantir Technologies, Inc. is right in the middle of it on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) is one of the more controversial stocks on Seeking Alpha right now with 25 articles being published just in June. Much of the analysis is concentrated […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Los Angeles delivery robot startup Coco this week has announced $36 million in funding. The Series A was led by Sam Altman, Silicon Valley Bank and Founders Fund, with participation from Sam Nazarian, Ellen Chen and Mario Del Pero. It brings the company’s total funding up to around $43 million. “I strongly believe the delivery service industry in its current state is massively under-serving merchants.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Those at risk are always vigilant for the signs of a stroke in progress, but no one can be vigilant when they’re sleeping, meaning thousands of people suffer “wake-up strokes” that are only identified hours after the fact. Zeit Medical’s brain-monitoring wearable could help raise the alarm and get people to the hospital fast enough to mitigate the stroke’s damage and potentially save lives.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nvidia today announced the general availability of AI Enterprise, a software suite of tools and frameworks that enable companies running VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on Nvidia-certified servers. Systems from Atea, Carahsoft, Computacenter, Insight Enterprises, SoftServe, Dell Technologies, and SVA System are now available, featuring a range of Nvidia GPUs including the A100, A30, […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Astroscale hit a major milestone Wednesday, when its space junk removal demo satellite that’s currently in orbit successfully captured and released a client spacecraft using a magnetic system. The End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission was launched in March, with the goal of validating the company’s orbital debris removal tech.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2021

A vast digital mirror world accessible through virtual reality is just around the corner if you believe the latest pronouncements coming out of Silicon Valley. This so-called metaverse has captured the tech zeitgeist and is attracting billions in investments. Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg even announced plans to turn his trillion-dollar social network into […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The financing comes just over six months after Flink raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Existing backers Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis Venture Capital (founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2021

Read Toin Villar take an elaborate look at The Metaverse and how it will operate on Make Use Of : Although some might have heard the term “metaverse” only recently, it’s been in use for a couple of decades. It was first used in the 1990s in a work of fiction, and it usually describes […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

At a time when remote work, cybersecurity attacks and increased privacy and compliance requirements threaten a company’s data, more companies are collecting and storing their observability data, but are being locked in with vendors or have difficulty accessing the data. Enter Cribl. The San Francisco-based company is developing an “open ecosystem of data” for enterprises that utilizes unified data pipelines, called “ observability pipelines ,” to parse and route any type of data that flows throu

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2021

In an effort to help Ethereum scale, The Graph will be providing market-leading indexing and querying services to new developers building on the Optimistic Ethereum Layer 2. This represents another significant integration for The Graph (GRT) project, as it continues to add new chains to its hosted services. In anticipation of the public launch, developers building […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Last month, MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, raised one of the largest Series A on the continent , to the tune of $40 million. Today, it has raised a $15 million extension from existing investors — RMBV, IFC, Flourish Ventures, Crystal Stream Capital, Rise Capital, Endeavour Catalyst, Beco Capital and 4DX Ventures — bringing its total Series A fundraise to $55 million.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2021

Aerospike Inc. today unveiled the results of a petabyte-scale benchmark that illustrates its Real-time Data Platform delivering 4 million to 5 million transactions per second (TPS) with sub-millisecond latencies for read-only and mixed workloads on a remarkably small 20-node Amazon Web Services (AWS) cluster fueled by Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 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: Tips on EB-1A and EB-2 NIW?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2021

Less than a year after raising its $6 million seed funding round, Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup build.security is being acquired by Elastic. The financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time. The deal is expected to close in Elastic’s Q2 FY22, ending October 31, 2021. In an email to […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Level AI , an early stage startup from a former member of the Alexa product team, wants to help companies process customer service calls faster by understanding the interactions they’re having with customers in real time. Today the company launched publicly, while announcing a $13 million Series A led by Battery Ventures with help from seed investors Eniac and Village Global along with some unnamed angels.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 25, 2021

Delivering a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for companies undergoing digital transformation initiatives, as 85% of buyers are willing to pay more for a great customer experience. However, customers aren’t only willing to pay more for a positive experience–they’ll go elsewhere if their experience isn’t positive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meet Shares , a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in this case, the company means “social” as in “social network” The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace. It has assembled a team of 35 people and raised $10 million in a pre-product seed round.

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Confluent

AUGUST 25, 2021

To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mindset, a platform featuring personal story collections from recording artists, announced today that it raised $8.7 million in seed funding. As co-founders of the K-pop focused podcast production company DIVE Studios , brothers Brian Nam, Eric Nam and Eddie Nam noticed that the studio’s best performing content came from podcast episodes where stars discussed how they handle struggles in their personal lives.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 25, 2021

Humans have been trying to make machines chat for decades. Alan Turing considered computers’ ability to generate natural speech a proof of their ability to think. Today, we converse with virtual companions all the time. But despite years of research and innovation, their unnatural responses remind us that no, we’re not yet at the HAL 9000-level of speech sophistication.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Aileen Lee is one of the most prestigious and successful venture capitalists of the past decade. Before starting her own firm in Cowboy Ventures, Lee was a partner at KPCB for more than 12 years. Her portfolio includes DocSend, Ironclad, Philz Coffee, StyleSeat and many, many more. So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch

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Dataiku

AUGUST 25, 2021

We are taking a break on the AI regulation series to take a step back and clarify the connection between AI Governance, MLOps, and Responsible AI. These three concepts fall off the tip of the tongues of industry practitioners, researchers, and regulators alike, all without having clearly defined connections or boundaries. At Dataiku , we believe that these concepts are central pieces of being able to scale with AI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Forward Kitchens was working quietly on its digital storefront for restaurants and is now announcing a $2.5 million seed round. Raghav Poddar started the company two years ago and was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2019 cohort. Poddar told TechCrunch he has been a foodie his entire life. Lately, he was relying on food delivery and pickup services, and while visiting with some of the restaurant owners, he realized a few things: first, not many had a good online presence, and second, these restau

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 25, 2021

As you build out Vue.js applications and they begin to reach a certain size, you will likely run into the need for global state management. Conveniently, the core development team provides Vuex , the de facto state management library for Vue.js applications. Getting started is pretty simple, and I’m going to assume you already are familiar with implementing Vuex.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Bright , a live video platform that lets fans Zoom with their favorite creators and celebs, has raised $15 million in new funding, the company announced today. The round was co-led by co-founder and talent manager Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures, the fund he founded with Ashton Kutcher. RIT Capital and Regah Ventures also co-led. Other investors in the new round include Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Globo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Shawn Mendes & Manager Andrew Gertler’s AG

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