TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peter Gajdoš. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Peter Gajdoš is a partner at Fifth Wall , where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0 financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot.

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Having architectural principles is not new, but in a world of highly-autonomous-teams they become essential because they are the means by which an aligned delivery direction is achieved without the need for control. In the latest installment , Andrew talks about what makes a good principle, and how they work with the Advice Process. more….

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Tim Berners-Lee’s startup, Inrupt, has raised about $30 million in its Series A financing round, a source familiar with the matter said. Forte Ventures led Inrupt’s new round, the two said Thursday, but both declined to disclose the size of the deal. The round saw participation from “all existing investors,” including Akamai Technologies and Glasswing Ventures, as well as new investors Allstate and the Minderoo Foundation’s Frontier Technology Initiative.

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Thus far, Brandon has has explained why general purpose languages are better for integration. In this latest installment he explains that there are cases when commercial integration tools make sense. more….

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Jonathan Metrick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Metrick is the chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures , where he helps build some of the world's leading fintech companies. More posts by this contributor. Use cohort analysis to drive smarter startup growth. Simon Lejeune. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Simon Lejeune leads user acquisition at Wealthsimple, the largest fintech in Canada.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As I wrote earlier this year, Deed ‘s mission is a clearcut one: take the employee giving/charity/volunteer program that many big companies have, and make it better. Give it a proper home — one with a modern UI, built-in community management tools and that hooks into your workflow (read: Slack) so as to not be forgotten. With that they were able to quickly get some big names on board, citing the likes of Airbnb, Stripe, Box and Adidas as customers quickly after launch.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The December 7, 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely disrupted services from a wide range of businesses for more than five hours and highlighted just how reliant businesses have become on internet-delivered services. The outage mostly impacted web services in the eastern U.S., yet the implications are universal: It’s a reminder that many businesses […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Instant grocery delivery continues to be a very frothy market, but today comes news of a major funding round for one player in it that investors believe will still be standing after the hype has died down. Flink , the Berlin-based startup that sells food and other essentials at supermarket prices and aims to deliver them in under 10 minutes, has confirmed that it has raised $750 million, a Series B round of funding led by a strategic backer, DoorDash, made at a pre-money valuation of $2.1 billio

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Confluent

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It seems like now more than ever developers are surrounded by a sea of terminology—but what does it really all mean? Here, we will take some often heard terms—some considered […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ikigai , a startup based on research out of MIT, wants to make it simple to build workflows with humans involved. Whereas traditional robotic process automation (RPA) is about building bots for repetitive tasks, this company wants to make it easier to build workflows where humans have to make a decision as part of the process. The company announced a $13 million seed round today from Foundation Capital, 8VC, Underscore VC and a variety of industry angels.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A decade ago, if you were to ask developers what the biggest challenges in commercial banking were, they would likely cite the difficulty of accessing and collating high-quality data on the day-to-day operations of banking institutions. Today, that’s completely changed. Or it has to some extent, at least. Developers working in the banking industry certainly […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Resolve , which specializes in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions, announced today that it has raised $25 million in equity funding. The investment comes just months after the company secured a combined $60 million asset and equity financing. Insight Partners led its latest round, which also included participation from existing backers Initialized Capital, KSD Capital, Haystack VC, Commerce Ventures and Clocktower Ventures.

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Lacework

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The end of the year is upon us and as we face the approach of a new one, we’re thinking ahead and reflecting on the state of cybersecurity. For us that means predictions. It’s become a tradition for teams to pause, take a breath, and look forward with the goal of helping others understand what [.]. Read More. from What Does 2022 Hold For Your Cloud Security Practice?

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Pod Foods is keeping grocery shelves full of the emerging food brands that consumers are asking for and announced today $10 million in Series A funding to continue developing its digital wholesale business-to-business marketplace. We profiled the Austin-based company’s founders Larissa Russell and Fiona Lee back in 2019 when they raised $3 million in a round led by Moment Ventures that also included M12.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To obtain golden eggs, one must care for the goose who lays them. The goose I want to highlight in this article is your CI/CD pipeline.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Corporate spend and cash management company Rho today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Participants included existing investors Inspired Capital, M13 and Torch Capital, as well as new investors such as DFJ Growth. This adds up to a total of $205 million in equity and debt financing, which the New York-based fintech plans to primarily use to invest in technology and build “more expansive products to continue to cover the en

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sentry this week announced it has acquired Specto, a provider of a set of tools for analyzing the performance of mobile applications. As the number of mobile applications being deployed continues to expand, developers are being asked to manage them as part of a general shift left that requires them to take on more accountability […]. The post Sentry Acquires Specto to Add Analytics Tool for Observability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

After the resounding success of several crowdfunding campaigns for its gamified smart bird feeder, Bird Buddy has raised an $8.5 million seed round. Its first product will ship in a few months, but it’s just the start of what the company hopes will be a new approach to using tech to better enjoy nature. It’s an ambitious statement of purpose from a company working on something as apparently trivial as a bird feeder.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Email marketing is an effective method for spreading the word about your managed services provider (MSP). However, it must be done strategically — not as an afterthought or as something that your prospects and customers may misinterpret as spam. Marketing via email is not only cost-effective but also allows you to educate your clients and prospects about the benefits of managed services and other thought leadership matters.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Robust Intelligence , an AI startup that helps businesses stress test their AI models and prevent them from failing, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Previous investor Sequoia, which led the company’s Series A round, as well as Harpoon Venture Capital and Engineering Capital also participated in this oversubscribed round.

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Dataiku

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Everyday, thousands of newspapers, news websites, specialist blogs, paid news networks, and many other sources publish financial news. They may cover stocks and other financial instruments movements as well as company announcements and journalistic investigations. This information is crucial to trading desks and related functions managing funds across banks and other financial institutions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Lucy Heskins. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lucy Heskins is an early-stage startup marketing adviser and the creator of Oh, Blimey , a marketing resource for first-time founders and their teams. She focuses primarily on B2B SaaS as well as product-led startups in the HR and people tech spaces. Before you can hire a full-time marketer, you must first get to know your potential customer and what is going on in their life that will ultimately trigger them into using you.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In this week’s The Long View: Amazon Web Services falls on its face, Linux’s move to Rust takes the next step, and the FTC stabs another fatal wound in the horrible Arm/Nvidia deal. The post AWS Outage Outrage | Rusty Linux | ARM Latest appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

First Resonance makes software for making hardware. The company’s Ion platform provides an all-in-one option for anyone who has to manage manufacturing lines, supply chains, engineering and design, among other things. Now, with $14M in new funding, the company aims to scale up its presence and make a full-court press on the hardware makers of the world.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Vercel today announced it has acquired Turborepo, a provider of a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript applications that provides developers with access to an easy-to-use monorepository for their code. In the wake of that acquisition, the command line interface (CLI) for accessing Turborepo will now be available under an open source license. Jared Palmer, […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

So your company is going WFH/Office hybrid. Great! Working from home more rules, even if management decisions or the specifics of your role mean it can’t happen every day. Now, how do you coordinate who goes in the office and when? Does it have to be the same day(s) every week? Do you just pick a random day and hope there’s a desk open? What if you’re the only one who went in that day — did you really need to commute?

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Daffodil Software

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Traditional financial institutions still rely on manual tracking when it comes to the vendor management component of their workflow. They make use of spreadsheets, email, and shared files on online drives instead of a dedicated vendor management platform. A common misconception in the financial industry is that investing in a Vendor Management System (VMS) is more expensive than manual processes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While most of the market is focused on building and selling 5G infrastructure, an important piece that is overlooked is the application development on 5G networks, according to Vivek Ladsariya, general partner at SineWave Ventures. That’s what makes him excited to support a company like Shabodi. “Application developers have always wanted to abstract away network complexities and Shabodi is primed to serve that need,” Ladsariya said via email.

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