TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It’s no secret that a massive digital transformation is happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings. Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Vent

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The post Sociocracy and Healthier Organizations first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Truebill , a startup offering a variety of tools to help users take control of their finances, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series C funding. When I first wrote about the startup in 2016 , it was focused on helping users track and cancel unwanted subscriptions. Since then, it’s expanded into other financial products, like reports on your personal expenses and the ability to negotiate lower bills.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Organizations need to take a considered and gradual approach to cloud migration to ensure security and compliance For businesses to succeed in 2021 and beyond, agility and responsiveness are critical. Data is the new currency, and businesses need to be able to access theirs instantly and securely to make the rapid-fire business decisions that will […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Joshira Maduro. Contributor. Joshira Maduro joined the LendingTree team in April 2020 and uses her background in market research and branding to write about credit card news and better ways to spend. Subscription services are on the rise. During the pandemic, Americans have been spending more time at home and more money on the digital products that make navigating our new normal easier.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. Leading the round is MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital, which are both existing investors in Railsbank. Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footpri

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This week on Asking For a Friend Live, I’m delighted to bring you special guests, Laura Cole, Lee Rubin, and Meredith McCreadie sharing their expertise and experiences on building trust and connection in remote teams. You won’t want to miss the moment […]. The post How to Build More Trust and Connection in Remote Teams (Video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Pipedrive , the sales CRM tool for small and medium-sized businesses, is the latest European company to reach unicorn status. Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. This means that Vista has effectively acquired Pipedrive, in the sense that the PE firm now has a majority stake.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Developers’ defensive qualities are only as good as the training they receive The playing field between the heroes and villains in cybersecurity is notoriously unfair. Sensitive data is the new gold, and attackers adapt quickly to circumvent defenses, exploiting security bugs large and small for potential paydirt. The volume of code being produced is too […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When I send an email, it’s special. A crafted, beautiful thing that — who am I kidding, it’s mostly automatic. So why not automate it? OthersideAI is taking this idea ( with a $2.6 million seed round ) beyond the auto-responders and smart replies, using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language generation engine to turn bullet points into full, personalized messages.

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TechSoup

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Though the COVID-19 pandemic flipped our world upside down, many individuals continue donating to help nonprofit organizations continue their critical work. In fact, the Association of Fundraising Professionals' latest quarterly fundraising report indicates that donations and number of donors were up 7.5 percent in the second quarter of 2020, the highest they've been in five years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You might not have heard of Sergey Toshin, but you should know his work. Toshin is a 24-year-old security researcher in Moscow who focuses largely on mobile app security. With his knowledge of what different mobile security flaws looked like, Toshin built a custom Android mobile app vulnerability scanner to quickly and automatically find vulnerabilities in an app’s code, he told TechCrunch.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The so-called “inventor” of the web has had yet another neat idea. His startup, Inrupt, has been working on a system where people can control their own data. Sounds clever.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Video communication startup Livestorm announced today that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Gilles Bertaux told me that the company started out with a focus on webinars before launching a video meeting product as well (which we used for our interview). “The way we think about it is, webinars and meetings are not use cases,” Bertaux said.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Following the company’s filing of its first quarterly report as a public company, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim said this week the rate at which new application development projects being launched since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring has declined. While most existing application development initiatives launched prior to the pandemic are […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The market for space observation is one of the few commercialized segments of the nascent industry and could be worth upwards of $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to some estimates. At TC Sessions: Space this December 16 & 17 , we’ll be discussing what’s ahead for the market with some of the industry’s leading founders, including Payam Banazadeh, the chief executive and founder of Capella Space; Rafal Modrzewski, the chief executive and founder of ICEYE; Peter

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

"Somehow, a busy day for Blizzard's servers is going to last for around 6 months," writes James G. . "So, is interpreting error messages a sport now?" Jay C. wrote. . Drew W. writes, "I'm not sure how, but Sparkpost thinks I've had over 130 emials opened for every one I've sent!" . "I.may have a problem staying off of my phone," Kevin V. writes. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

mmhmm , the presentation software developed by Evernote founder Phil Libin, is today coming out of beta. The mmhmm app is now officially available for Mac. The software allows folks to spice up their video calls with the ability to add different backgrounds, play videos, add images, and use filters, among other cool effects. The app has been invite only since its inception, but today it becomes available to all.

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CableLabs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

On May 28, 2020, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) announced the launch of OpenRoaming. OpenRoaming is a cloud federation–based framework that will open Wi-Fi roaming to a broad community of Identity Providers (IDPs) and Access Network Providers (ANPs). OpenRoaming is a cyber-secured, seamless connection and automatic RADIUS router all rolled into one global multi-provider ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast ( now on Twitter! ), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The full Equity crew was on hand to debate the current venture capital market, curious about how risk-on, or risk-off things really are today. Danny , Natasha and I framed the conversation around a number of news items from the week, including: Wrkfrce has launched , and we wanted to chat more about the future of niche media, bringing The Juggern

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Dataiku

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Last time , we learned about curiosity in deep reinforcement learning. The idea of curiosity-driven learning is to build a reward function that is intrinsic to the agent (generated by the agent itself). That is, the agent is a self-learner, as he is both the student and its own feedback teacher.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A Y Combinator-backed startup that is helping major companies efficiently listen to how happy — or unhappy — their employees are and resolve their issues on time to retain talent just raised a new financing round from several high-profile executives. InFeedo, a four-year-old people analytics SaaS startup with headquarters in Gurgaon, said on Thursday it has raised $3.2 million in its Series A funding round.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A tale of two organizations. Here at Cloudera, we’ve seen many large organizations struggle to meet ever-changing and ever-growing business demands. We see it everywhere. Traditional on-premise architectures, which create a fixed, finite set of resources, forces every business request for new insight to be a crazy resource balancing act, coupled with long wait times, or a straight-up no, it cannot be done.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Statespace, the training platform for gamers, has today announced the close of a $29 million Series B financing led by Khosla Ventures. This comes just six months after the announcement of a $15 million Series A funding , also led by Khosla. Founder and CEO Wayne Mackey described the funding as pre-emptive as the company experiences a growth spurt alongside the broader gaming industry.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For more than a decade, we’ve been dedicated to helping our customers protect their enterprises and stay ahead of fast-evolving threats. We’re particularly honored to be recognized not only for our market and technology leadership, but also for having the strategic vision to protect our customers in the future. On Nov. 9, Gartner named Palo Alto Networks a Leader for the ninth consecutive time in its Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Listen up, space fans and aficionados. You have just 48 hours left to secure an early-bird ticket to TC Sessions: Space 2020 , a two-day virtual conference dedicated to early-stage space startups and the community that supports them. Join the brilliant minds, leading founders, shrewd investors and boundary-pushing engineers determined to shape the future of space exploration and everything that entails.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Diversity takes on many forms around us. Think of a garden, an orchestra, and the example that’s easiest to relate to: food. While every ingredient has its unique taste, combining them in the right amount will result in a delicious dish. If we understand the value of diversity, why is workplace diversity still a big challenge for many companies? D&I’s progress limited a narrow view of diversity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Reports on November 9 that a COVID-19 vaccine looks incredibly effective moved the market. Software stocks sold off and long-suffering industries hammered by the pandemic saw their fortunes rise. It was odd to see airlines soaring and 2020 high-fliers like Zoom taking blows. But amidst all that noise, another sector that has great import for startups was also taking lumps: edtech.

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