Tue.Oct 27, 2020

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Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million

TechCrunch

InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. The startup offers a freemium web-based editing tool that allows users to create videos that are fit to be published on popular social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube).

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Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Up till the beginning of this year, if anyone asked about the best restaurants in town we’d redirect them to the team handling reimbursements. You see, at HackerEarth we match new employees with a buddy, and the buddy gets a ‘buddy bonus’ for taking their fellow Hackster out on their first day of work. Coffee and bonding, right? The bills told us which restaurant in town was the flavor of the month, and which was past-a it’s prime cut.

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5 startup theses that will transform the 2020s

TechCrunch

I wrote a call to action for the tech community to dive deeper into the future of innovation this coming decade. Where are some of the hot spots going to come from though? Below, I have assembled a very loose set of five clusters broadly categorized into “wellness,” “climate,” “data society,” “creativity,” and “fundamentals” that offer some scaffolding for understanding what’s about to come this decade and how and any entrepreneur — really, any citizen — can start to build progress.

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The Value of Caring Tasks in Our Environment

Agile Alliance

The post The Value of Caring Tasks in Our Environment first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

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.

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Upstream aims to be the new home for your professional social life

TechCrunch

Last fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan , allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public. To be clear, CEO Alex Taub told me that he’s not trying to replace LinkedIn — he acknowledged that thanks to network effects,”If you want to go and try to take down LinkedIn, you’re not going to be able to take them down.” Instead, the goal is

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Deci raises $9.1M to optimize AI models with AI

TechCrunch

Deci , a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new platform that uses AI to optimize AI models and get them ready for production, today announced that it has raised a $9.1 million seed round led by Emerge and Square Peg. The general idea here is to make it easier and faster for businesses to take AI workloads into production — and to optimize those production models for improved accuracy and performance.

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Should social media dampen uncertain stories?

Martin Fowler

In last weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, the New York Post broke a story alleging corrupt behavior by the family of Joe Biden, a candidate for President. The story wasn't confirmed by other media organizations. Supporters of Donald Trump acted to spread the story on social media, but both Twitter and Netscape took unprecedented efforts to block the story.

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Salto raises $27M to let you configure your SaaS platforms with code

TechCrunch

Salto , a Tel Aviv-based open-source startup that allows you to configure SaaS platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot with code, is coming out of stealth today and announced that it has raised a $27 million Series A round. This round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The general idea here — which is similar to the “infrastructure-as-code” movement — is to allow business operations teams to automate the labo

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UiPath: Providing a platform for end to end hyperautomation

CTOvision

We track UiPath in the CTOvision Tech Directory in the infrastructure category and the robotics category. UiPath is the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software firm. They are helping […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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SimilarWeb raises $120M for its AI-based market intelligence platform for sites and apps

TechCrunch

Israeli startup SimilarWeb has made a name for itself with an AI-based platform that lets sites and apps track and understand traffic not just on their own sites, but those of its competitors. Now, it’s taking the next step in its growth. The startup has raised $120 million, funding it will use to continue expanding its platform both through acquisitions and investing in its own R&D, with a focus on providing more analytics services to larger enterprises alongside its current base of i

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A Security Perspective Post-COVID-19

CTOvision

I look forward to discussing the topic of the continuing complex dynamics around cybersecurity in this 11 November online panel hosted by ISRM and TinyG. Please join us and help […].

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NeoLight’s jaundice treatment catches another $7 million to bring neonatal light therapy to the home

TechCrunch

NeoLight , a startup company that’s working to bring hospital-grade neonatal care technologies to the home, has raised $7 million more in financing. Dignity Health and Honor Health Systems came in to support the company along with previous investors like the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and his wife Ashley and other, undisclosed investors. .

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Dun & Bradstreet: A leader in commercial data and analytics

CTOvision

We track Dun & Bradstreet in the CTOvision tech directory as a a Big Data company. Dun & Bradstreet is recognized as the global leader in commercial data and analytics, […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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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Spying a pivot to ghost kitchens, Softbank’s second Vision Fund pours $120 million into Ordermark

TechCrunch

“We’re building a decentralized ghost kitchen,” is a sentence that could launch a thousand investor calls, and Alex Canter, the chief executive officer behind Ordermark , knows it. The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in a $120 million round for that the company announced today. “We have uncovered an opportunity to help drive more orders into restaurants through t

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Beyond APIs: Blockchain Interoperability

CTOvision

Read Brian Platz take a look at the interoperability in blockchain technology on Forbes: Sharing content on Twitter and LinkedIn is easy. Maybe too easy, some argue, given the popularity […].

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Panoply raises $10M for its cloud data platform

TechCrunch

Panoply , a platform that makes it easier for businesses to set up a data warehouse and analyze that data with standard SQL queries, today announced that it has raised an additional $10 million in funding from Ibex Investors and C5 Capital. This brings the total funding in the San Francisco and Tel Aviv-based company to $24 million. The company, which launched back in 2015 , has mostly stuck to its original vision, which was always about democratizing access to data warehousing and the analytics

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Manage your Palo Alto Network NGFW Policies with App-ID, Content-ID, User-ID, and more with Tufin

CTOvision

Today, enterprises are increasingly turning to Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) features with the goal of moving toward a more proactive user and application-aware approach to enterprise security. A long-term Palo Alto […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Bogota’s Tül raises $4 million to improve the supply chain for construction in Latin America

TechCrunch

With a new $4 million round, the Bogota-based supply chain logistics technology developer Tül is prepping to expand across the Latin American region. Founded by Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie and Juan Carlos Narváez, Tül’s technology connects construction manufacturers to the small businesses across Latin America that are responsible for handling half of the inventory for construction jobs in the region, Lafaurie said.

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Eclypsium: Defending the hardware attack surface

CTOvision

Eclypsium protects DoD and federal agencies and contractors from the foundation of your computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risks and stopping threats to the firmware and hardware inside every laptop, server […].

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Anima’s latest update draws on the popularity of design and no-code tools

TechCrunch

Anima , the company that turns design prototypes into code, has today announced the launch of Anima 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in React with the click of a button. The company was founded by Or Arbel (cofounder of Yo!), Avishay Cohen (who led R&D at Mobli) and Michal Cohen. It launched three years ago with a platform that allowed designers in Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD to translate their designs into HTML code.

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How do SMEs benefit from Internet of Things?

CTOvision

Read Haris Elias list three ways in which the Internet of Things can help small and medium businesses on Tech HQ: The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) has […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s

TechCrunch

Seasonality is critical for the media. End-of-year wrap-ups, best books for the summer, things to do this weekend — they’re all methods to note not only the passage of time, but also to begin to set the tone for what is about to come. Everyone covered the end of the 2010s with aplomb, a decade that, at least in tech, was filled with huge milestones, including some of the largest startup IPOs of all time and also some of the worst lows we’ve ever seen — frauds and product snafus that were larger

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From ‘Cloud Zombies’ to Multi-Cloud Experts

DevOps.com

A significant risk associated with cloud migration is overspending. For years, zombie-like obedience to AWS has resulted in price lock and escalating fees at many organizations – this is a tale for fighting the cloud zombies. Cloud costs around data egress or application bandwidth are often not transparent and thus highly unpredictable. Complicating this problem […].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners backs Theta Lake’s video conferencing security tech with $12.7 million

TechCrunch

Theta Lake , a provider of compliance and security tools for conferencing software like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and others, said it has raised $12.7 million in a new round of funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with commitments from Cisco Investments, angel investors from the collaboration and security space, and previous investors Neotribe Ventures, Firebolt Ventures and WestWave Capital, the company said.

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DevOps’ Role in Fixing Software Vulnerabilities

DevOps.com

From the beginning, application development has required that software developers deal with bugs, vulnerabilities and other issues. But problems encountered under the DevOps model tend to be more manageable since the updates and fixes required are usually smaller. The reason for this is that the process of maintaining and improving DevOps-related software never stops.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

TechCrunch

Biotech can often, and sometimes literally, fly over our heads. However, the pandemic has shown an increased need for investment and focus on solutions that work on human and planetary health. For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day.

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GrammaTech Discovers Vulnerabilities in Third-Party Code

DevOps.com

GrammaTech today launched a CodeSentry software composition analysis (SCA) for binaries that inventories third-party code used in custom applications and identifies known vulnerabilities. Vince Arneja, chief product officer for GrammaTech, said the bulk of custom applications today are made up of binaries based on components developed by a third-party that comes in the form of […].

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Lightyear scores $3.7M seed to digitize networking infrastructure procurement

TechCrunch

Lightyear , a New York City startup that wants to make it easier for large companies to procure networking infrastructure like internet and SD-WAN, announced a $3.7 million seed round today. Amplo led the round with help from Susa Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, Mark Cuban, David Adelman and Operator Partners. While it was at it, the company announced that it was emerging from stealth and offering its solution in public beta.