TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

African fintech Flutterwave has raised $250 million in a Series D round that tripled the company’s valuation to over $3 billion in just twelve months. In March 2021, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based startup raised $170 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global and Avenir at a valuation of $1 billion. The latest financing, which confirms a Bloomberg scoop from October, brings Flutterwave’s total raise since its inception six years ago to $475 million (it raised a $35 million Se

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In today’s world, we place a premium on adaptability. Whether in the boardroom or on the football field, we are challenged to adapt to difficult conditions or try something new to respond to the unexpected. During this year’s NFC playoffs, the 49ers overcome the bitter cold at Lambeau Field to upset the Packers on their […]. The post Adaptability and Why Frameworks Beat Formulas appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As countries ease up on COVID restrictions, activities are going back in person. But the virtual event space continues to attract investors, at least in Asia. Hong Kong-based events management platform EventX said today it has raised another $8 million for its Series B, lifting the total amount secured for this round to $18 million. The new injection was led by GL Ventures, the early-stage investment arm of Hillhouse Capital.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Just about every organization I am familiar with today is using more languages, frameworks, libraries, etc. than they were a decade ago. Back then, most organizations were doing a lot of Java, and maybe a little bit of PHP or.NET (almost always VB.NET). Now we have Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, etc. And etc., […]. The post Watch Your Language(s) appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion (or about $890 million USD). The round was led by returning investors Seek Investments with participation from OneVentures, AirTree Ventures and other shareholders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Calvin Broadus, a.k.a. Snoop Dogg, rocked the stage at Sunday’s Super Bowl, and now his Casa Verde Capital team is pumping new funds into Frankfurt-based Cansativa Group , touted as the “largest medical cannabis distributor” in Germany. Cansativa Group came onto the scene in 2017 with business-to-business tools for customers to manage every stage of the cannabis value chain — from importing goods to distributing them — and all associated logistics required to get product to thousands of pharmaci

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In October 2021, we surveyed over 1,000 senior executives in the US, with a goal to understand their digital appetite and aspirations for 2022. . The survey revealed interesting insights on Corporate America’s readiness for various digital initiatives, which we consolidated in our 2022 State of Digital Transformation report. This blog is a condensed version of the survey’s most compelling digital transformation statistics. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. Stronghold offers a suite of fintech and blockchain APIs and services, including embedded payments, clearing and settlement, according to its website.

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Coding Dojo

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

If you’ve considered becoming a software developer, you’ve most likely wondered about what what the entry level software developer salary … Read more >>. The post What Salary Can You Expect As An Entry Level Software Developer? appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Nigeria has an average of 4.8 bank branches and 19 ATMs per 100,000 adults, compared to the world average of 13 bank branches and 40 ATMs. Reports also say that less than one-third of Nigerian adults have access to a bank branch or ATM within one kilometer of where they live. This challenge in accessing financial services, especially for the unbanked and underbanked, has given rise to agency banking.

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CloudZero

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As companies increasingly build in the cloud, cost optimization has become a major issue for many engineering teams. While cloud providers like AWS offer flexibility and easy scalability, cloud costs are often opaque and difficult to track.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. Akshat Dixit. Contributor. Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Qua

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Aqua Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In late January, the White House published a memo that lays the groundwork for creating a zero-trust architecture for federal agencies. With renewed attention from the US government, zero-trust networking is an area that many organizations are focusing on to improve their security posture. With that focus, it makes sense to understand where these principles can be applied to cloud native environments and, specifically, Kubernetes clusters.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Voila , a startup building infrastructure for social commerce, is bringing concepts from China’s e-commerce market to the U.S. The company offers an alternative to the “link in bio” solutions used today by creators, like Linktree and Beacons, which direct followers to creators’ social profiles, personal websites, and other recommendations.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually like to work as a site reliability engineer, there is perhaps no better source than job descriptions. SRE job ads explain what real […]. The post Analyzing SRE Job Postings appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

How do YouTubers make a living? Usually, through a mixture of merch sales, membership programs or maybe even a custom product. But YouTube ad revenue makes up a sizable chunk of the pie chart. A YouTuber’s back catalog becomes a financial asset — every month, they know they’ll get a payout from ever-increasing engagement on their past content.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) enables managing and provisioning infrastructure through code instead of manual processes. IaC is crucial for DevOps teams as it lets them manage infrastructure components, such as networks and load balancers, and enables test applications in production-like environments early in the development cycle. It allows DevOps teams to build, change and manage infrastructure in […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Earnings season is usually a snoozer if you aren’t obsessed with the stock market. So I understand if the last thing you want to read about this morning is a meta-analysis of cross-sector earnings. But hear me out. TechCrunch has tracked a select handful of earnings reports from major technology companies in the current Q4 2021 reporting cycle.

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Daffodil Software

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The most wholesome and altruistic innovation to come out of the FinTech, or financial technology domain is that of microlending apps and platforms. Micro lending platforms leverage peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies to offer loans to small businesses as well as personal microloans to individuals without a standardized credit history.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Instrumental was launched by two former Apple mechanical engineers in 2015. Having worked on products like the iPod and Apple Watch for the previous six years, they were intimately familiar with the process for checking on manufacturing quality: You got on a plane to Asia and took a look for yourself. CEO and co-founder Anna-Katrina Shedletsky said that after logging thousands of air miles, she and co-founder Samuel Weiss left Apple in 2015 with an idea for replacing on-site inspections with a s

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

CEOWORLD magazine (ISSN: 2771-7216), the definitive magazine for CEOs, CFOs, high-level executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals, today announced the appointments of Prince Georges IV, 11th Duke of Royan; Dr. Bartosz Marcinkowski; and Dr. William Putsis to its External Advisory Board (EAB). The changes reflect a thoughtful and strategic approach to CEOWORLD magazine’s […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Finding product-market fit, that elusive holy grail of startup success, can be one of the biggest challenges early-stage founders face. This crucial milestone assures you — and potential investors — that your customer base is actively buying, using and talking about your product. In short, it determines the future growth and profitability of your startup.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

When it comes to code, developers have the world at their fingertips. From Stack Overflow to Google, when we have a question about how to solve a programming problem, the answers are (hopefully) one click away. When it comes to engineering leadership, that wisdom isn’t so accessible.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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: How can early-stage startups compete for talent?

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What Is Travis CI? Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub and Bitbucket. Travis CI provides various paid plans for private projects and a free plan for open source. Travis CI is available at [link]. [link] supports only public repositories. To support GitHub private repositories, you can use [link].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The cleaning products you use in your house are 99% water. Yes, the same stuff that comes out of the spigot at your house. With the radical idea that the municipal water system is probably a better way to transport water around, Blueland just raised $20 million to expand its successful line of cleaning-products-in-tablet-form, in a bid to reduce single-use plastics and put a stop to the silliness of shipping water around from factory to retail store, and from retail store to your house.

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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Hive Mind , powered by the TechSoup Global Network , is a safe learning space for activists, trainers, and organizations around the world. It helps civil society actors build their digital resilience.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management. The financing comes 11 months after the company announced it had raised $45 million , as our own Ingrid Lunden reported last March. Interestingly, Genesis had raised less than $5 million prior to last year, mostly bootstrapping its business.

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