TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The round, which marks the Fund’s first investment in an African startup, drew participation from existing investors like Sequoia Capital China, Redpoint China, Source Code Capital, and Softbank Ventures Asia.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Calculate ROI For a More Strategic Transition to Remote Teams. Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. But, you know it’s more complicated than that. So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2 million seed round to scale its operations on the back of leaving the Techstars Toronto accelerator program last month. . Canadian-based VC firm The Xchange led the round, SOSV and Shock Ventures participated, while Techstars Toronto made a follow-on investment. Nigerian firms Argentil Capital Partners and ODBA & Co Ventures took part in the seed round, alongside some angel investors from Canada, other parts of Africa and

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Use This Approach to Gain Respect and the Influence You Need. Of course, leadership is not about being liked. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like other areas of healthcare, the dental industry is steadily embracing technology. But while much of it is in the orthodontic realm, other startups, like Adra , are bringing artificial intelligence into a dentist’s day-to-day workflow, particularly in finding cavities, of what will be a $435.08 billion global dental services market this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Getting children to school safely and reliably is a challenge as old as public education itself. But rarely have any entrepreneurs tackled the problem of updating and optimizing one of the nation’s largest legacy transit systems, now nearly a century old. It’s still common to find people at U.S. student transportation hubs speaking into walkie-talkies and wrangling clipboards as they sort passengers into gas-guzzling yellow buses.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 23, 2021

Even as technology continues to move into the cloud, a simultaneous shift is already underway in the opposite direction as computing increasingly moves to the edge. One key reason: by 2025, the number of connected devices in use is expected to exceed 56 billion units, according to IDC. Edge computing is not a successor to […]. The post Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

A few months ago, brothers Hai Nam Bui and Hai Long Bui were developing a bookkeeping app for small retailers in Vietnam. Called SoBanHang (or “sales book”), it would help businesses that usually rely on paper ledgers digitize their operations, similar to Khatabook in India and BukuKas and BukuWarung in Indonesia. Then a new COVID-19 outbreak hit Vietnam.

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TechBeacon

AUGUST 23, 2021

The need for pervasive data access has dramatically increased over the last 18 months. As knowledge workers have shifted to remote work during the pandemic, their need to remotely access business applications and data has accelerated their companies' move to the cloud.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 23, 2021

In March of 2020, CEOs faced the reality of shelter in place orders that required most of their employees to work from home. The initial assumption of many was that the situation might last a few weeks. Today, countless companies are in the same place or in some stage of either mandating that employees come […]. The post The Future of Work: You Don’t Need a Plan.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Sumi Das. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sumi Das is a partner at CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he leads healthcare tech and consumer fintech investments. Prior investments include Robinhood, Stripe, Convoy, Albert, Aye Finance, Next Insurance and Strive Health. Nina Gerson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nina Gerson is a vice president at CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where she co-leads healthcare tech investments.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 23, 2021

F5 Networks today revealed plans to launch multiple projects in the months ahead that will extend its commitment to open source beyond the NGNIX proxy software the company acquired in 2019. The announcement was made during an online NGINX Sprint event; two of the projects are extensions of NGINIX that will address networking requirements between […].

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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Figuring out size and cut of clothes through a website can suck the fun out of shopping online, but Revery.ai is developing a tool that leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence to create a better online dressing room experience. Under the tutelage of University of Illinois Center for Computer Science advisrr David Forsyth, a team consisting of Ph.D. students Kedan Li, Jeffrey Zhang and Min Jin Chong, is creating what they consider to be the first tool using existing catalog images t

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 23, 2021

The key code to bending reality is feeling what arises. The subconscious needs to be cleared of its contractions in order to access the zero-point field, which gives rise to physical reality. This is normal and why most everyone you know lives in contraction. Even experts in self-development usually skip over this and focus only […]. The post Let Your Emotions Get in the Way appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Deena Shakir is a partner at Lux Capital, where she looks to invest in technologies that are streamlining analog industries while also improving lives and livelihoods. Among the companies she has backed, for example, are Shiru , which is leveraging computational design to create enhanced proteins to help feed the world; and AllStripes , which aggregates and analyzes medical records, then sells the de-identified data to pharma companies to help them develop medicines.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this article, we will learn how to use the Spring Cloud Configuration server to centralize managing the configuration of our microservices. An increasing number of microservices typically come with an increasing number of configuration files that need to be managed and updated. With the?Spring Cloud Configuration server, we can place the configuration files for all our microservices in a central configuration repository that will make it much easier to handle them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Pry Financials wants to make startup finances approachable for its entire team, not just the people in charge of its accounting spreadsheets. The Y Combinator alum announced today it has raised $4.2 million from Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, NOMO VC, Liquid2 and Hyphen Capital. . Launched in March, Pry now has more than 200 customers and claims it has grown 35% month-over-month since YC’s Demo Day.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 23, 2021

The pandemic brought unprecedented change to the digital ecosystem, impacting users, companies and software engineers alike. COVID-19 accelerated ongoing digital transformation and forced many organizations to innovate rapidly. Newfound reliance on digital experiences increased demand for software programmers, exacerbating demand in a market already short on talent.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Covering public companies can be a bit of a drag. They grow some modest amount each year, and their constituent analysts pester them with questions about gross margin expansion and sales rep efficiency. It can be a little dull. Then there are startups, which grow much more quickly — and are more fun to talk about. That’s the case with Shelf.io.

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CloudZero

AUGUST 23, 2021

The market for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to grow exponentially. But more SaaS companies are reporting lower margins these days, despite historically enjoying 60-90% margins on average.

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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

As more companies provide more API-first services, Moesif has developed a way for those companies to learn how their customers are utilizing them. The San Francisco-based startup is adding to its capital raise Monday with the announcement of a $12 million Series A round led by David Sacks and Arra Malekzadeh of Craft Ventures. Existing investor Merus Capital, which led Moesif’s $3.5 million seed round in 2019, also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raise to $15.5 million, M

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like quietly but significantly amassed credit card debt, accrued technical debt can have major implications for growth-stage startups. With market and organizational demands pushing for cutting-edge feature releases in an effort to stay ahead of competitors and please users, startup development teams are often under pressure to speed up deployments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Inflation may or may not prove transitory when it comes to consumer prices, but startup valuations are definitely rising — and noticeably so — in recent quarters. That’s the obvious takeaway from a recent PitchBook report digging into valuation data from a host of startup funding events in the United States. While the data covers the U.S. startup market, the general trends included are likely global, given that the same venture rush that has pushed record capital into startups

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 23, 2021

Sometimes Data Scientists use "Confidential" business datasets to perform ML experiments and ultimately train models as per the business problem statement. They have been asked to automate the whole process and create the MLOps pipeline, which runs in a highly secured environment (Managed System Identity) and automates consumption of "Confidential Dataset.".

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

When Clarisse Beurrier was getting her education in chemical engineering and biotechnology, she already knew she wanted to make a difference; hence her participation in Effective Altruism Cambridge, an organization dedicated to helping smart and capable people target their philanthropic urges at the problems that will have the biggest actual impact on the world.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 23, 2021

Pros. Every branches folk from a stable state. Prevent side-effects (defect/ad-hoc/config) from merging develop into release and main. Group stable features according to release plan. Easily remove features from release. Cons. Require optional merge branch if using with Pull-Request. PR will merge the target branch on your feature ; may cause unknown side-effects and stall you for days to fix it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Givz , which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Eniac and Accomplice co-led the financing for the New York-based startup. Additional investors include Supernode Ventures, Claude Wasserstein of Fine Day, Phoenix Club and Dylan Whitman. Givz was founded in 2017 to make charitable giving more accessible and convenient for the masses.

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