TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Google-backed DotPe, which helps businesses in India go online and sell digitally , is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $50 million in a new financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Temasek, the Singapore state-owned investment firm, is finalizing deliberations to lead the investment in the Gurgaon-headquartered startup, the source said, requesting anonymity as the details are private.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
MAY 31, 2022
On-campus recruiting has been decreasing in popularity over the years. Running up high travel costs and being time-intensive is less than ideal in today’s fast-paced tech industry. The pandemic proved to be the nail in the coffin for this old-school way of university recruitment. Universities and other educational institutions across the world canceled in-person career fairs and on-campus recruitment drives.
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TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Onramp Funds , an Austin-based company providing financing to e-commerce sellers, secured $42 million in equity and credit to expand its working capital offering. CEO Eric Youngstrom founded the company in 2020 after a career at multicarrier shipping software company ShippingEasy. One of the problems with shipping at that time, back in 2012, was that you would have to log into each individual marketplace.
Xebia
MAY 31, 2022
Most of the online resources suggest to use Azure Data factory (ADF ) in Git mode instead of Live mode as it has some advantages. For example, ability to work on the resources as a team in a collaborative manner or ability to revert changes that introduced bugs. However, the way that git mode is implemented is not taking advantage of the infrastructure as code (IaaC) approach.
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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.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
The creator economy is “ burning up ,” and the Jonas Brothers are cashing in. Launching today with the help of these former teen heartthrobs, Scriber is a creator subscription company geared toward more established figures in entertainment (… like the Jonas Brothers). Joe, Kevin and Nick aren’t just Scriber’s first creators — they also have equity in the company.
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TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Erik Bradley. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Erik Bradley brings more than two decades of experience in creating research platforms to his role as chief strategist at ETR, a market research firm specializing in enterprise technology data. Over the past three years, the chaos of the pandemic has been felt everywhere. IT managers suddenly found themselves supporting legions of work-from-home employees; planned system expansions and upgrades had to be put on hold; organizations needed new technolog
Nathan Magnuson
MAY 31, 2022
I had two separate experiences with leading change recently that demonstrate a critical aspect that is often the difference between success and failure. Let me share the two scenarios – see if you can guess what it is. Of course, I’ll share it as well. Scenario #1: Recently I was with an executive team delivering one of our most popular Leadership-in-a-Box programs Leading Change.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
I would love to see more companies like Artiphon in the world. Hardware startups with clever ideas and a knack for bringing them to market. Back in November 2020, I spent a good bit of time with the company’s handheld synth/sampler/instrument. It didn’t turn me into Wendy Carlos, but it helped pass a few dark pandemic hours by firing up some music-making neurons.
Tenable
MAY 31, 2022
CVE-2022-30190: Zero Click Zero Day in Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Exploited in the Wild. Microsoft confirms remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool that has been exploited in the wild since at least April. Background. On May 27, a security researcher going by nao_sec posted on Twitter about an “interesting” document they found on VirusTotal that was used to execute PowerShell code.
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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.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
When Refraction AI was founded in 2019 , its goal was to use robotics to bring down the cost of last-mile delivery. Over the past couple of years, the startup has worked directly with restaurants in its hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to offer its bike-lane bound robots as a logistics layer for customers, rather than trying to be another DoorDash or UberEats.
TechBeacon
MAY 31, 2022
Remember the start of your digital transformation journey? You had road maps, timelines, budget, and a great launch. And after two years, the journey had probably taken its toll.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Railway , a startup building a software deployment platform tailored for engineers, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures and angel investors including Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner. The capital brings Railway’s total raised to $24 million, which founder and CEO Jake Cooper said is being put toward continuing to expand Railway’s product with a focus on enterprise customers.
Dzone - DevOps
MAY 31, 2022
As far as this modern and tech-oriented IT domain goes, DevOps has become a standard to judge operations’ overall efficiency and smoothness. However, like it is with everything in the world, there is still a sizeable chunk of enterprises in the process of either understanding what it means or completely not being aware of it at all. In this post, we will try to cover a few crucial points that will include a brief overview of DevOps and why DevOps adoption might be helpful for businesses.
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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.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Just how hard will it be for some high-flying unicorns to go public? The question gets more serious and worrisome by the week. To understand how much the late-stage market has changed in the last few months, we’re once again pulling public market data that we will contrast against mega-unicorn Databricks’ known results. Recall that we executed this experiment in February , when the data analytics company announced that it closed 2021 with $800 million in ARR, and in April, when we to
DevOps.com
MAY 31, 2022
A few weeks ago at SauceCon, DevOps.com talked to Matt Wyman, chief customer officer at SauceLabs. This year’s theme, Reimagine Test, emphasized the need to prioritize the user experience in testing. As Wyman put it, “We really focused on that customer experience, using the right type of test tool at the right moment.” After the […]. The post Three Common Testing Mistakes – And Solutions appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Following its $135 million Series D last week, Monte Carlo became the latest unicorn in a fast-rising category: data observability, which the startup defines as “an end-to-end approach to enable teams to deliver more reliable and trustworthy data.” If you are wondering how serious data quality issues are, Monte Carlo CEO Barr Moses has an answer: “Data quality issues still plague even the most data-driven companies.
LaunchDarkly
MAY 31, 2022
What's the big deal about edge functions? In this post, we'll explain and demonstrate how LaunchDarkly works with data at the edge.
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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.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Mental health issues have come into a clearer focus amid the pandemic. Depression became endemic , but it still too often goes undetected. Even when it does, healthcare providers struggle to meet demand. Two women engineers — both of whom experienced depression and had trouble finding therapy — thought the answer might be helping medical pros detect depression.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 31, 2022
Part Two – Core, Soft Credential Constituents. In the second part of this series, we will continue this theme on executive hiring for a private equity portfolio company by examining parallel soft skill essentials and core, soft credential constituents. In case you missed it, please see part one of this series on P.E. portfolio company hiring , highlighting portfolio company executive core credentials and diving into hiring assessment essentials in terms of hard skills.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Sydney Thomas , who was the first hire at Precursor Ventures , a seed and early-stage focused fund that backs first-time founders, is starting her own venture firm. The investor is going from principal at the firm she joined 6 years ago to the solo-partner behind a new, unnamed firm. The job move may feel like a leap in this environment — as institutionally backed investors warn that emerging fund managers will struggle to raise debut funds given LP freeze-ups — but Thomas doesn’t quite ag
CloudZero
MAY 31, 2022
When each quarter’s financial report lands on the desks of a company’s C-Suite executives, those execs are essentially looking at a black box of spending and revenue.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. The firm seems to have some good traction so far. It says over 85% of its portfolio companies raise follow-on funding — a collective $1.15 billion — and its first fund is “ranked as one of the top 5% of VC funds globally,” while the second fund is in “the top 10% of their
Planbox
MAY 31, 2022
This article originally appeared on Forbes. Farmers are resilient folks with a long history of innovation. The slightest fluctuation in the environment can drastically alter the nature of their work, such that anything can happen at any time. To overcome such uncertainty, creativity and adaptivity are requisites, which is a key lesson for anyone playing a critical role in innovation management.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
Appetito , the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma , an identical startup with operations in the Maghreb regions of Tunisia and Morocco. . The deal is expected to close by the end of Q3 2022. Appetito didn’t disclose the size of the deal in its statement, and neither did CEO Shehab Mokhtar when quizzed about it via email.
Planbox
MAY 31, 2022
Planbox is helping Medco ‘push the boundaries of large-scale cooperation to create positive change for society and the environment.’. Kington, United Kingdom — Planbox has been selected by Medco Foundation, a non-profit organization part of the Medco Group focused on spearheading Corporate Social Responsibility activities throughout the country. “It has been a really great experience with Planbox so far.
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TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
On June 1, 2022, the TechCrunch Live crew is hosting an extended TechCrunch Live episode with Columbus investors, founders and business leaders. There’s even a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. Register for the virtual event here for free! Why Columbus? Because it’s quickly becoming a major startup scene in the Midwest, especially in the areas of healthcare and insurance.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2022
Knowing your style can help you build relationships, understand others, and collaborate more effectively.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Oh hey and happy Tuesday, the very last day of May 2022! Tomorrow, for our City Spotlight series, we’re putting the limelight on Columbus, Ohio. We’re also doing a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. If you want to register for the event, here’s the handy linky-link that will give you all the info you need!
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