TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The last five years have seen a plethora of fintech applications in Nigeria (and Africa, in general) grow at an astonishing rate. But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. This, in turn, creates a bottleneck when onboarding and verifying customers. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Chainlink has released a new whitepaper called Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks. The new whitepaper outlines an ambitious vision for the future of smart contracts. We talk with Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov who explains the implications for the next generation of blockchain ecosystems. Read/hear the podcast of Chainlink co […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

As content moderation continues to be a critical aspect of how social media platforms work — one that they may be pressured to get right, or at least do better in tackling — a startup that has built a set of data and image models to help with that, along with any other tasks that require automatically detecting objects or text, is announcing a big round of funding.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Read Patti Domm explain how slowly but surely Bitcoin movements are getting interconnected with mainstream stocks on CNBC : The correlation between bitcoin and the stock market could grow as more institutions become involved with cryptocurrency and the number of equities linked to digital currencies grows, strategists said. For now, the link is loose: sometimes high, […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Figma spent years in stealth before launching its web-based collaborative design tool. Since coming into the light, the company has been iterating quickly. Today, Figma launches its biggest product update to date. Meet FigJam, Figma’s new whiteboarding tool. The entire concept of Figma stemmed from the fact that designers were taking up much more space at the figurative table and needed a place to collaborate efficiently.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

It might be time for neighborhood restaurants and coffee shops to start thinking about a subscription business — at least according to a new Y Combinator-backed startup called Per Diem. The company is announcing today that it has raised $2.3 million in seed funding led by Two Sigma Ventures. As co-founder CEO Tomer Molovinsky put it, Per Diem helps local businesses “build their own Amazon Prime.” He said that he and his co-founder/CTO Doron Segal started working on this during the pa

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APRIL 21, 2021

This video captures context from a meeting with Peter Thiel, Mike Pompeo, and Robert C. O’Brien (Ambassador) at the The Richard Nixon Foundation. Peter provides insights into the history of Silicon Valley, what Bitcoin means for China and US, and a net assessment on China/US relations. Mike Pompei also has interesting thoughts about the bilateral […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s SB Opportunity Fund. Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Read Bryce Welker explain how entrepreneurs can make use of the smart contracts, NFTs, and DeFi using the Ethereum platform on Entrepreneurs : As Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies make headlines year after year, bystanders experience FOMO reading stories about other people becoming millionaires. Unfortunately, many of these stories have less to do with the […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups may not spring to mind when speaking about the beautiful country of Croatia. Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. But Croatia’s entrepreneurs haven’t been quiet: Startups like Infobip and Rimac are significant local hero businesses now, and the region can boast of high-quality ta

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DevOps.com

APRIL 21, 2021

Engineers at fast-paced startups often wear both Dev and DevOps hats. Early in my career, as a developer at a sentiment-analysis startup, I was tasked with writing scripts to spin up servers, configure them, install necessary software and deploy the code we wrote. My custom shell scripts, Python scripts and cron jobs did all the […]. The post DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

OneSoil , a company selling technology to help farmers monitor fields and increase yields, has raised $5 million from international investors Almaz Capital and PortfoLion. The company’s tech integrates satellite imagery with mobile and desktop applications for farming analytics. These offerings include both remote crop monitoring and variable-rate seed and fertilizer applications that can reduce the time spent on field scouting and improve efficiency as it relates to inputs.

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TechBeacon

APRIL 21, 2021

Most organizations today collect far more data than they require for their business operations, simply because they can. By my company's estimates, on average, some 60% of the data that organizations collect is unused because it is either redundant, obsolete, or trivial. By eliminating this data—or by not collecting it in the first place—businesses can cut down on storage requirements and costs while also supporting sustainability objectives by using less energy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Electric scooters powered by Gogoro ’s swappable, rechargeable batteries now account for nearly a quarter of monthly sales in Taiwan , its home market. But one of the most frequent questions co-founder and chief executive officer Horace Luke gets asked is when will Gogoro launch its scooters in other countries. “I always said, ‘we’re getting ready, we’re getting ready, we’re getting ready,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechBeacon

APRIL 21, 2021

Somewhere, you've probably come across the famous statement, often attributed to Peter Drucker: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." That is, a strong business culture—including employees' personal and professional behavior, attitudes, expectations, and track record—is a clearer marker for business success than are the best-laid plans (i.e., strategy).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The B2B payments space has seen an explosion in demand, and investor interest, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses try to figure out how to pay each other digitally. The challenges become even more complex when dealing with cross-border payments. Startups that were formed before the pandemic stand to benefit from the shift. One such startup, Tribal Credit , launched its beta in late 2019 to provide payment products for startups and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emergi

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 21, 2021

Management in a remote organization is vastly different from that in a collocated one. Copying in-person interactions to digital tools does not cultivate a great culture nor does it contribute to better collaboration. This article aims to give you an idea of what the move to remote leadership entails and why it is essential for the success of any business in the remote work era.

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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

APRIL 21, 2021

In the words of co-founder and CEO Jonathan Shambroom, Creator+ is a new startup that will “finance, produce and distribute feature-length films from today’s top creators and emerging storytellers.” The company is coming out of stealth today and also announcing that it has raised $12 million in funding led by Petra Group and Freestyle Capital, with participation from Jake Roper, Peter Hollens, Wendy Ayche (a.k.a.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Read Belle Lin take a look at how Palantir Technologies is expanding into life sciences space on Business Insider : In a continued push to expand its business beyond the sometimes-controversial federal defense and intelligence contracts it’s best-known for, $42 billion big data company Palantir is making a new push into industries including life sciences […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Many of the world’s organizations shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even as more people are vaccinated and offices are planning re-openings, it’s clear that for some organizations, remote work is here to stay. . Deel, a startup which provides payroll, compliance tools and other services to help businesses hire remotely, has seen increased demand in the wake of this shift.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Read what Ron Shevlin’s has to say about Bitcoin becoming a reserve currency in the United States on Forbes : The rise in the price of Bitcoin, coupled with Coinbase’s IPO debut (which valued the company at ~$85 billion), has helped legitimize Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in the eyes of many doubters and skeptics. Not among banks, […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Robotic process automation (RPA) unicorn UiPath last night priced its IPO at $56 per share , above its raised price target range of $52 to $54. The company sold 9,416,384 shares at that price, alongside 14,474,393 from existing shareholders. Its underwriters can purchase 3,583,616 shares at its IPO price if they so choose. UiPath raised $527.3 million on a gross basis for the primary shares that it sold in the transaction, a deal that values the company at around $29.1 billion on a nondiluted ba

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DevOps.com

APRIL 21, 2021

New fundraise supports company’s accelerated growth as API-first digital transformation becomes a top initiative across all industries SAN FRANCISCO- April 21, 2021 – RapidAPI, a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced today that it has raised $60M million in its Series C funding round. […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Companies like Ro and Hims have capitalized on the need for more seamless and discreet access to health and wellness products that are part of everyday life. For men. Stix is looking to do the same for women, and has today announced the raise of a $3.5 million seed round. The financing was co-led by Resolute Ventures and SWAT equity partners, with participation from Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Bullish, and a variety of strategic angels.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 21, 2021

Applause today made a bi-directional integration capability that simplifies requesting application code tests of, dubbed Applause In-Sprint Testing, generally available. Kristin Simonini, vice president of product for Applause, said application owners will be able to, for example, use a Jira project management application to create a ticket that requests a specific piece of code be […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

There are any number of seed rounds that cross our desks every day, a never-ending march of enterprise software, consumer apps, games, hardware, biotech and sometimes even a space startup. But amid the regular flow of funding news, it’s still rare to come across a company raising money to take on addiction with software. So when Affect’s $1 million seed round from AlleyCorp came to my attention, I wanted to learn a bit more.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

In today’s digitally driven world, data sharing or exchanging is absolutely essential. Companies across industries need data to collaborate with diversified business partners and deliver services to customers. The process of sharing data can be expensive and painful with reliance on copying and moving data. As the Data Cloud has evolved, these data connections have become […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

After an upward revision, UiPath priced its IPO last night at $56 per share , a few dollars above its raised target range. The above-range price meant that the unicorn put more capital into its books through its public offering. For a company in a market as competitive as robotic process automation (RPA), the funds are welcome. In fact, RPA has been top of mind for startups and established companies alike over the last year or so.

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