TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Kikoff , a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. The capital is in addition to the $12.5 million the startup raised across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds, which were both led by Lightspeed Venture partners. Portage Ventures led Kickoff’s Series B, which included participation from Lightspeed, GGV, Coatue and Core Innovation Capital.

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2021

Read Steve Banker explain the concept of circular supply chain and how it can lead to supply chain sustainability on Forbes : Supply chain sustainability is increasingly important for the future of business and the world as a whole. Companies are investing more money into sustainability initiatives, seeking to reduce waste and carbon emissions. As […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Over the past year, there has been a surge of newly formed digital banks aimed at specific demographics. The banks in nearly all cases are trying to meet the needs of certain populations that they believe are feeling left out or underserved by traditional financial institutions. The latest such neobank to emerge is New York-based Daylight , which describes itself as the first LGBTQ+ digital banking platform in the United States.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Read Tony Baer analyze the future of Cloudera after its buyout by a private PE investment company on ZDNet : Yesterday, Cloudera became the latest technology company to go private in a $5.3 billion deal backed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, and KKR. It comes barely a few weeks on the heels of Talend’s board […].

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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

JUNE 30, 2021

Ably is a Pub/Sub messaging platform that companies can use to develop realtime features in their products. The company just raised a $70 million Series B funding round co-led by Insight Partners and Dawn Capital. Every day, you use various apps that push and fetch data in realtime. When you send a message in your favorite chat app, when you edit a document collaboratively, when you start a video call or when you look at financial data, you expect to send and receive stuff in a fraction of a sec

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Geoffrey Moore. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Known for his seminal book "Crossing the Chasm," Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker and adviser who splits his consulting time between startup companies in the Wildcat Venture Partners portfolio and established high-tech enterprises — including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google and Splunk.

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Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 30, 2021

Certificates are always a pain in the production environment! Security is the one the most important part of any application these days especially the fact that most of the applications are running on a public cloud provider puts the security part on a higher priority. One of the ways application are using to keep communications secure is through the certificate.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. As the name implies, the new fund will focus on investing in women, as well as other historically excluded founders “of all ages, life stages, ethnicities and sexual orientations,” the company says.

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TechBeacon

JUNE 30, 2021

Many organizations struggle to struggle to control ustructured data—text files, emails, instant messages, word processing documents, and media files—across their environments. One tool that's often used to protect unstructured data is data loss prevention (DLP). These tools alone, though, can't cope with the data protection, privacy, and management needs of businesses today.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

There are so many startups pledging to reinvent the mortgage process that it’s hard to keep up. But for anyone who has had to go through the process of applying for one, it’s clear that there’s plenty of room for improvement. The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow.

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2021

Read why Joe Devanesan says that companies can secure their supply chains only by tackling the endpoint exposure on Tech HQ : Supply chain efficiencies were pushed to the brink during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the security posture of many a supply chain experienced cracks on an unprecedented level. Supply chain integrity was […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Australian rocket launch startup Gilmour Space Technologies is betting that bigger isn’t always better. The company has developed a small launch vehicle it calls Eris, a 25-meter (82 foot) rocket that can deliver a payload of up to 215 kilograms (474 pounds) to sun synchronous orbit. Now, it’s raised a $61 million AUD ($46 million USD) Series C round to take Eris to space next year.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

Too many times, the emphasis placed on Diversity, Inclusion and Tolerance Programs, or DI&T Programs, relate primarily to issues of minorities, such as race and religion. Instantly, this makes many people think, “OK, so this program is really not about me” or “OK, this is just another program for the minorities” and so on. The […]. The post The REAL Business Case For Diversity, Inclusion and Tolerance appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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

JUNE 30, 2021

Fresh off the heels of a $650 million Series E funding round, 3D printed rocket startup Relativity Space is now preparing to increase production capacity by a factor of ten, with the opening of a 1 million square-foot factory headquarters in Long Beach, California. Relativity’s current factory, a 150,000 square-foot facility also in Long Beach, will remain in production.

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Kovair - DevOps

JUNE 30, 2021

DevOps or Development and Operations are the tools and processes used by modern businesses to bridge the gap between their development and operations teams. This.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The American IPO market is hot for many companies, but surprisingly cool for others. The gap between the two cohorts of private companies looking to list is becoming notable. When Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi first set an IPO price range, The Exchange was curious about why the company felt so inexpensive. Compared to its American comps, shares in Didi simply felt underpriced at its proposed valuation interval.

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Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 30, 2021

There are many ways an organization practicing DevOps can capture value with a software product or service. These range from giving it amazing features to providing troubleshooting tips and instant in-built support when a software system malfunctions. DevOps brings development and operations teams together to deliver maximum value in the shortest time possible.

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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

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: Is it possible to expand our startup in the US?

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2021

Read Ian Allison explain how Ethereum 2.0 staking could be the future of secure banking in the world on Coin Desk : Banks could one day be key participants in Ethereum 2.0. It’s a trend that will soon garner as much attention as institutional interest in bitcoin, say firms like Blockdaemon and Bison Trails, which provide […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

This morning Gusto , a unicorn that sells payroll and benefits management software, announced that it will now offer part of its service via an API to external platforms. The new product, dubbed “ Gusto Embedded Payroll ,” will allow vertical SaaS companies to provide payroll support to their own customers. The move to provide elements of its service through other firms’ offerings could bolster Gusto’s growth rate; for partner platforms the ability to provide payroll serv

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2021

Elevate Security, a leader in Human Attack Surface Management, today announced Jose Muniz has joined the company as Vice President of Engineering. Muniz is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has extensive experience leading teams at some of the world’s biggest tech companies and building products that accelerate growth. Previously, he filled the […].

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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Stewart Hillhouse. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com. More posts by this contributor.

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CloudZero

JUNE 30, 2021

We all want growth, but we often find ourselves unequipped to deal with it. It’s a bit like going to the gym, lifting weights, and seeing real results, only to realize that you no longer fit into your old clothes. Now you have to decide if you want to modify them or buy new clothes. We can use this very simple analogy to understand the differences between horizontal and vertical scaling.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Mandolin just marked its first birthday earlier this month, and yet the Indianapolis-based startup is already announcing a $12 million Series A. That’s a quick follow up to the $5 million seed it raised in early October of last year. Turns out the global pandemic is a pretty fortuitious time to launch and grow a concert streaming platform. The oversubscribed round was co-led by 645 Ventures and Foundry Group and featured additional funding from existing investors like High Alpha and TIME Venture

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2021

In 2021’s first quarter, nearly 140 organizations reported being impacted by a supply chain attack, which saw an increase of 42% during the period compared with the prior quarter, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). Long-time cyberveteran with the USAF and currently Federal Practice Lead at A-LIGN, Tony Bai and Joe Cortese, Penetration […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

In the white-hot creator economy space, startups are increasingly looking to build paint-by-numbers platforms to help budding creators more easily execute on what were once seemingly insurmountable business challenges. The ex-Uber team at Pietra is cashing in on this vision with a plan to build a backend for launching and scaling creator product lines.

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Aqua Security

JUNE 30, 2021

One of the challenges with container security and its standards is keeping current with new releases and products. New versions of the Docker and Kubernetes CIS Benchmarks were released recently to capture changes in the new versions of those projects, both to keep things current and to expand coverage to help people keep their environments secure.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

BJ Jenkins. Contributor. Share on Twitter. BJ Jenkins is CEO of Barracuda , a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions. He is a member of the boards of directors at SumoLogic and Generac Power Systems. It used to be a heavily traveled two-way street in corporate America: CEOs joined other companies’ boards to broaden their experiences, expand their influence, or simply because it felt good.

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