TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Exactly six months after raising $80 million at a $505 million valuation, blockchain and Web3 development SaaS startup Alchemy has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $3.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the financing, which was extremely competitive with a number of large venture firms clamoring to not only back the company, but lead the investment, according to sources familiar with the transaction. .

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Programmers have to spend a huge amount of their time on the computer and because of these long hours of mouse usage, they develop Repetitive Strain Injuries. And using a standard mouse can aggravate these injuries. The computer mouse puts your palm in a neutral position is the best way of alleviating such problems – enter trackball or vertical mice.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As companies gather ever-growing sets of data, finding issues with that data that could impact the viability of a machine learning model becomes increasingly important. Anomalo is putting machine learning to work to help solve the data viability issue automatically. Today the company announced a $33 million Series A investment led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, Foundation Capital, First Round Capital and Village Global.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Linux has become the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing over the last 30 years. Reflecting on what made this possible and how its open source philosophy finally imposed itself in the industry can offer software vendors valuable lessons from this amazing success story. The web may not have reached full adulthood […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sequoia hosted a private, sponsored AMA for founders in Startup Battlefield and Startup Alley at the virtual Disrupt SF last month. Stephanie Zhan, Konstantine Buhler, George Robson and Josephine Chen shared some key insights and best practices. It was good stuff, so we wanted to share. We took some highlights from the session and chatted with a couple more partners to dive deeper into what founders need to know — how to ask for help, fundraising principles, how to build company culture an

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Swedish food tech company N!CK’S is taking on the world, one healthy ice cream pint at a time. The company on Thursday announced $100 million Series C funding toward creating additional healthy snacks and ice cream products that have a proprietary blend of sweeteners and ingredients, but with a fraction of the calories and no added sugar. Kinnevik, Ambrosia and Temasek co-led the round and were joined by Gullspang.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 28, 2021

All of the business of software, but especially the delivery of product capabilities, is inextricably bound up in questions about time. What’s the estimate? If we have N people working on it, how long will it take? When will we ship? Putting a finer point on it, if you’re building products iteratively, incorporating customer feedback from early prototypes, tacking and jibing your way toward the right solution, there’s no way you’ll be able to accurately estimate the work it will take to get ther

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Terran Orbital, a leading manufacturer of small satellites, is going public in a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Tailwind Two Acquisition Corp. The deal has a post-transaction enterprise value of $1.58 billion and will furnish the company with around $470 million. Of those funds, $345 million will come from Tailwind Two’s contribution, plus $50 million PIPE provided by AE Industrial Partners, Beach Point Capital, Daniel Staton, Lockheed Martin and Fuel Venture Capital.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Kafka Streams is an abstraction over Apache Kafka® producers and consumers that lets you forget about low-level details and focus on processing your Kafka data. You could of course write […].

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Amit Anand. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. With Grab’s announcement of its imminent Nasdaq listing and GoJek merging with Tokopedia to form tech giant GoTo , casual international observers could be forgiven for believing that Southeast Asia’s tech universe only comprises similar companies.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A global survey of 1,300 application development and DevOps leaders conducted by the research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Dynatrace finds, on average, organizations expect to increase the frequency of their software releases by 58% over the next two years. Andreas Grabner, director of strategic partnerships at Dynatrace, an observability platform provider, said that […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Buy now, pay later is here to stay. A year ago, the biggest players in the space were companies founded solely to offer consumers the ability to pay in installments at the point of sale. Sweden’s Klarna, Australia’s Afterpay and U.S.-based Affirm were the top names associated with BNPL. But the landscape looks very different now that more companies recognize the opportunity and fight for a piece of the pie.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Salt Security has extended its platform for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) to include support for APIs built using GraphQL. GraphQL is an open source data query and manipulation language for APIs that was originally developed by Facebook. It provides a more efficient approach to querying data than the REST APIs that are widely used […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Linda Moore. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Linda Moore is the president and CEO of TechNet , a bipartisan policy and political network. More posts by this contributor. Computer science is the key to America’s skills crisis. The New Technology Policy Battlegrounds Are Getting Closer To Home. Bobby Franklin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Despite the shocks and perplexities that year 2020 posed to the world, it was also a year of glory and unprecedented growth for CPG companies. Businesses operating in this sector not only played a critical role in fulfilling fast altering demands of customers as they curated their habits around the new normal, they also did […]. The post Pristine Melody of Packaged Goods: Is the Continuum of Glory Getting Sweet?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Tim Berners-Lee created the standards for the world wide web three decades ago, setting the pathway for countless companies to flourish at unimaginable scale. His new venture, called Inrupt, wants to fix some of the mess many of those companies have made — and it’s in the market to raise money. Inrupt is in talks with a handful of investors to raise between $30 million to $50 million at a pre-money valuation of $140 million, according to two people familiar with the matter and an inv

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Aqua Security

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A prospect’s CISO recently asked me: “ I’m facing a growing stream of vulnerabilities coming from our CI/CD pipelines on the one hand, while our SecOps team is flooded with alerts and configuration issues from our production environment. How do I reconcile those separate streams and focus on what’s really important? ”. “ Well ,” I responded, “ funny you should ask because this is what we’ve been doing for our customers these past five years, and now it has a named category. ” A cloud native appl

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Thousands of pitch decks, and only a handful of winners. Such is the math of the VC industry right now, what with an explosion of startups and dreams of glory launching every year. VCs are overwhelmed with pitches, which means that crafting the perfect deck and connecting with a reader in the few seconds you have their attention is critical. So what do you do to build a deck that can’t be ignored?

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Throughout the last year and a half, most organizations were forced to either create or develop their online service offerings at a rapid pace. Companies had to find alternate solutions to continue day-to-day operations in the transition to remote-first. Low development costs and the wide range of use cases have been primary factors in the […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Going to the Moon is a laudable ambition, but what are you going to do when you get there? NASA and the private space industry aim to make the most of the lunar surface, and to do so they need to study the environment in the next frontier — as leaders from ispace, Lockheed Martin, and Masten Space will explain at TC Session: Space on December 14-15.

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Radixweb

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Before going into details of the best JavaScript frameworks, let’s look at some of the numbers. Because we all love numbers, right? So, do you know how many websites are present currently in the world? Take a wild guess. It’s 1900455520 (1.90 billion and counting).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Brazilian grain trading marketplace Tarken secured $3.5 million in a seed round, co-led by Monashees and Maya, to continue developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing. Joining them was Gilgamesh Ventures and individual investors, including Kavak founder Carlos Garcia, Ualá founder Pierpaolo Barbieri, Zap VivaReal Group’s Brian Requarth and DoorDash’s Gokul Rajaram.

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Trigent

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Artificial intelligence has become an important milestone in the digital transformation journey of all sectors, including media and entertainment. With the buzz it has created, it is no surprise that the adoption of AI in media and entertainment is a game-changer for the pioneering and the digitally inclined. It plays an immense role in the way content and experiences are curated and delivered at scale today. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Swap , a São Paulo-based BaaS startup, announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Tiger Global Management. The financing was “heavily oversubscribed,” according to the company, which has now raised $28 million since its October 2018 inception. Endeavor, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, partners of DST Global, ONEVC, Global Founders Capital and Flourish Ventures all participated in the latest round.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With developers becoming more important than ever, it’s critical to understand how to maximize their productivity and engagement, so in turn, businesses can create better value. The Developer Experience Engineer (DXE) clears the path to developer success by implementing a common set of principles, maintaining the right tools, and creating cohesive standards.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Allbirds is a tech-enabled shoe company that raised a series of venture capital rounds since mid-2015, per Crunchbase data. And it’s going public. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The company’s IPO would be something we’d cover regardless of how it fit into — or didn’t — a particular trend that we’re watching in the larger startup market.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A flurry of ransomware operators are now targeting Active Directory (AD) as a core step in the attack path. Understanding the details can help you ensure your AD environment is secure. Over the past several months, a number of ransomware operators have concentrated their focus on Active Directory (AD) as a core step in their attack path. Starting with LockBit 2.0 in July 2021 and continuing with Conti and BlackMatter in September and October 2021, operators increasingly understand how easy it is

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There’s nothing like an increasing level of regulations to create spaces for new startups to appear, especially in SaaS. Asset managers, banks and other financial institutions need to calculate their financed CO2 emissions footprint in a manner that is auditable and compliant with both the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) methodologies.

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