TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Last summer, Jeeves was participating in Y Combinator’s summer batch as a fledgling fintech. This June, the startup emerged from stealth with $31 million in equity and $100 million in debt financing. . Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
There is a lot of excitement around blockchain right now, for a good reason. Production use cases continue to emerge across sectors such as manufacturing, energy, air travel, insurance and finance. Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations using blockchain smart contracts will see a 50% increase in their data quality. Yet, Gartner also predicts that […].
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collective, Uncork Capital, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Tao Capital Partners also participated in the financing, which brings the Boston-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $105 million.
Dataiku
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
In this rapidly advancing AI world, human computer interactions (HCI) are of extreme importance. We live in a world where Siri and Alexa are physically closer to us than other humans. Soon the world will get more populated with physical and virtual service robots to accomplish tasks that range from caring for the elderly to assessing the effectiveness of your marketing campaign.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value. Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12 million in additional investment at the same price. “Fundamentally, Explos
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Challenger bank Point has raised a $46.5 million Series B funding round. The company offers an account associated with a debit card. And the startup positions itself as a premium debit card company and tries to offer credit card rewards with debit cards. Existing investor Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures is investing more money in the company and leading the Series B round.
TechBeacon
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
There's nothing wrong with value stream management (VSM) itself, but there's plenty wrong with how it's being considered and discussed by bloggers, industry marketing types, and others, who often conflate it with DevOps and Agile. It's not the same thing.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
YouTravel.Me is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. Over the past month, we’ve seen companies like Thatch raise $3 million for its platform aimed at travel creators, travel tech company Hopper bring in $175 million , Wheel the World grab $2 million for its disability-friendly vacation planner, Elude raise $2.1 million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 million fo
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Against the backdrop of rapid digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic, every industry has seen an increase in high-level cybersecurity breaches. As organizations continue to support distributed and remote work, organizations must address the risk of incomplete security policies and procedures resulting in exposure to IT risk of all kinds.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Botify has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by InfraVia Growth with Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund also participating. The company has created a search engine optimization (SEO) platform so that your content is better indexed and appears more often in search results. Existing investors Eurazeo and Ventech are also investing in the startup once again.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Your business has grown from a startup of five people to a full-blown organization of 100 … congrats! But, now what? The practices that worked for a smaller company may have worked as you first started growing, but now it’s time to scale operations to fit your new needs. Just like a kid outgrowing their […]. The post DevOps World 2021: 3 Sessions for Successful Scaling appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) and Axel Ericsson sought to combine social audio and podcasting into one seamless app. The resulting app — Callin — launches today on iOS with an announcement of $12 million in Series A funding co-led by Sequoia, Goldcrest and Craft Ventures, where Sacks is a founder and partner.
InfoQ Culture Methods
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Common barriers to transformation value remain people, mindset, and organizational culture, they are so significant that they can halt any transformation from achieving meaningful delivery capabilities. Behavioral mechanisms can work as a sophisticated DNA blueprint that directs actions. This article explores mechanisms for DNA manipulation to apply the concepts in the organizational environment.
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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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Pancake brought in a $350,000 seed round to develop its home design platform that leverages furniture you already have in your home with a designer’s fresh eye on your space. Maria Jose Castro and Roberto Meza, both from Costa Rica, started the company in 2020, based on their own experience of transitioning to work-from-home and needing to outfit a space.
Aqua Security
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
One of the biggest challenges of eBPF development is distribution of your eBPF project. With so many different versions of the Linux kernel out in the wild, it seems like an impossible task to compile your eBPF program against all of them to ensure compatibility. However, by using CO:RE, a feature of libbpf, this gets quite a bit easier. In this blog, I’ll share our experience of addressing these challenges when developing Tracee, an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux, and
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Jonathan Metrick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Metrick is the chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures , where he helps build some of the world's leading fintech companies. Cohort analysis is a way of evaluating your business that involves grouping customers into “cohorts” and observing how they behave over time. A commonly used approach is monthly cohort analysis, where customers are grouped by the month they signed up, allowing you to observe how someone who
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
The customer journey should determine a business’s ecosystem. To map the customer journey, leaders should reach out to peers and partners who can help the company realize what customers are looking for and the changes necessary to meet those demands. Then, the enterprise can begin building and shaping its ecosystem more effectively. Here are six questions […].
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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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
3D printing has garnered a lot of hype, much of it for good reason: The technology has unlocked new kinds of object shapes and geometries, and it uses materials that tend to be much lighter weight than their traditionally manufactured counterparts. But there remain high barriers to entry for many companies that either don’t have training in additive manufacturing, or that need to use materials that aren’t suitable for a traditional 3D printer. 3D printing startup AON3D wants to remove both of th
Openxcell
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
One can surely say that the headless eCommerce industry is at its peak in the 21st century. However, this sudden rise in users is due to the COVID-19 pandemic or people are getting used to online shopping, the ecommerce industry has shown a lot of improvement and vast growth. Though, soon the ecommerce industry is going to lose its head. Yes! You read it correctly.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
RISE , one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, is returning to Hong Kong in March 2022 as an in-person event, and will be held there for at least five years, announced organizer Web Summit today. Last year, Web Summit said RISE would move to Kuala Lumpur, but its return to Hong Kong means the conference will no longer be held in Malaysia’s capital, though a spokesperson told TechCrunch that it is plans to host other events there in the future.
Openxcell
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
One can surely say that the headless eCommerce industry is at its peak in the 21st century. However, this sudden rise in users is due to the COVID-19 pandemic or people are getting used to online shopping, the ecommerce industry has shown a lot of improvement and vast growth. Though, soon the ecommerce industry is going to lose its head. Yes! You read it correctly.
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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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Sunday , an insurtech startup based in Bangkok, announced it has raised a $45 million Series B. Investors include Tencent, SCB 10X, Vertex Growth, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Quona Capital, Aflac Ventures and Z Venture Capital. The company says the round was oversubscribed, and that it doubled its revenue growth in 2020. Founded in 2017, Sunday describes itself as a “full-stack” insurtech, which means it handles everything from underwriting to distribution of its policies.
Synopsys
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Application security orchestration and correlation tools empower security teams to speed up the AppSec process without sacrificing quality. The post ASOC series part 1: How application security orchestration and correlation can improve DevSecOps efficiency appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
First, some housekeeping: Thanks to our new corporate parents , TechCrunch has the day off tomorrow, so consider this the last chapter of The Exchange for this week. (The newsletter will go out Saturday as always.) Also, Alex is off next week. Anna is taking on next week’s newsletter and may have a column or two on deck as well. But before we slow down for a few days, let’s chat about the most recent Y Combinator Demo Day in thematic detail.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Low-code and no-code development platforms have been the trending IT topic for some time now. Experts in this field speculate as to how they could change the future of the industry. Some publications predict the gradual decline of traditional IT, as low-code and no-code products continue to reshape the very approach to solutions development. But, before we get into a discussion on the future of low-code and no-code, let’s define what these terms actually mean.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Cheese is one of those foods that when you like it, you actually love it. It’s also one of the most difficult foods to make from something other than milk. Stockeld Dreamery not only took that task on, it has a product to show for it. The Stockholm-based company announced Thursday its Series A round of $20 million co-led by Astanor Ventures and Northzone.
Datavail
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Moving data analytics to the cloud would be much simpler if it were a “lift and shift” process. A lift and shift to the cloud involves moving applications and associated data to the cloud without redesigning the applications. Since that’s not possible when you’re moving analytics to the cloud, you need to be prepared for the challenges you’ll face. However, those challenges shouldn’t discourage you.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. . The round — which also includes a strategic investment from Capital One Ventures, Crowdstrike Falcon Fund and Gaingels — brings Corelight’s total raised to $160 million, following a $50 million Series C in October 2019, a $25 million Series B in September 2018 and a $9.2 million Serie
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