TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Dataiku is going downstream with a new product today called Dataiku Online. As the name suggests, Dataiku Online is a fully managed version of Dataiku. It lets you take advantage of the data science platform without going through a complicated setup process that involves a system administrator and your own infrastructure. If you’re not familiar with Dataiku, the platform lets you turn raw data into advanced analytics, run some data visualization tasks, create data-backed dashboards and train mac

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 14, 2021

Going back to the office? Don’t lose one of the most valuable aspects of remote work. Whether your team is heading back to the office, will continue working remotely, or somewhere between, silence and space are critical leadership gifts to give your team. Mixed Feelings about Going Back. Over the past month, as more U.S. citizens have access to vaccines, we’ve been talking with people whose teams have worked remotely about their thoughts on returning to in-person work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Fraud protection startup nSure AI has raised $6.8 million in seed funding, led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, AXA-backed venture builder Kamet , Moneta Seeds and private investors. The round will help the company bolster the predictive AI and machine learning algorithms that power nSure AI’s “first of its kind” fraud protection platform.

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Agile Alliance

JUNE 14, 2021

Through a member-led initiative that started in 2011, Agile Alliance and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered on the production of the Agile Extension to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Guide in order to help improve understanding of Agile approaches to business analysis. (The Agile Extension v2.0 is available to Agile … Continued.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

French startup Upflow has raised a $15 million Series A round. The company wants to help you chase late payments. It optimizes how you collect payments from your customers in order to improve your cash-cycle. Investors in today’s funding round include 9yards Capital, existing investor eFounders, as well as N26 co-founder Maximilian Tayenthal, Uber SVP of Delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, auxmoney co-founder and CEO Raffael Johnen.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Carro , one of the largest automotive marketplaces in Southeast Asia, announced it has hit unicorn valuation after raising a $360 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Other participants include insurance giant MSIG and Indonesian-based funds like EV Growth, Provident Growth and Indies Capital. About 90% of vehicles sold through Carro are secondhand, and it offers services that cover the entire lifecycle of a car, from maintenance to when it is broken down and recycled for parts.

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CTOvision

JUNE 14, 2021

Read Rick Wartzman and Kelly Tang take a look at the companies that are best positioned to take advantage of the strained supply chains across the world on Wall Street Journal : Cargo ships stacked up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Inventories of lumber, aluminum cans, tires, cardboard and plastic all […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Nubank’s first office, on California Street in the Brooklin neighborhood of São Paulo, makes for a great beginning to the company’s story. It wasn’t a Silicon Valley garage, but this tiny, one-bathroom rented house, where 30 people worked insane hours to push out the company’s debut credit card , lends just as well to an image of entrepreneurial spirit and drive.

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CTOvision

JUNE 14, 2021

The Alliance for Digital Innovation is a Group of some of the nation’s most innovative, admired and virtuous technology organizations. They exist to accelerate change by driving government’s adoption of innovative commercial technology. Their website has a line that captures what they believe: It’s time to replace outdated, insecure and costly-to-maintain legacy systems.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil is a country riven with economic contradictions. It has one of the largest and most profitable banking industries in Latin America, and is among the world’s most developed financial markets. Financial transactions that would take days to process in the United States through ACH happen instantaneously in Brazil. This sophistication, however, masks a backward state of affairs plagued by appalling customer service, exorbitant fees and lack of banking access for many.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

The engineering manager vs. recruiter saga is an age-old story. On paper, these two seem to be destined to be good friends. After all, they have the same common goal – to hire the best tech talent for their brand. Yet, they remain at loggerheads. One of the main reasons this happens is because both recruiters and engineering managers approach the same problem from different perspectives.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

It’s easier than ever to build a product and sell it around the United States, or the world. But if you want to do so without incurring the wrath of any particular state, or nation-state, you’d best have your tax matters in order. This is why Stripe’s news last week that it has built tax-focused tooling to help its customers manage their state bills mattered.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

By Kunal Jha & Kelli Vukelic. Executive coaching was nearly unheard of in India 15 or so years ago. Today is much different. Now there are thousands of certified executive coaches and multiple ICF chapters engaged in helping executives and their organizations succeed. Indian companies are engaging this skilled cadre of coaches to help nurture and develop leaders ripe for transitioning to senior roles, they are improving performance with leaders advancing from lower internal positions and se

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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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Because of the pandemic, we’re all a lot more familiar with remote working than we used to be, whether we like it or not. But the remote tools of the pre-pandemic era — Slack, Trello, Zoom, Asana, etc., etc., etc. — are, if we admit it to ourselves, barely scratching the surface of what we really need to be productive. Luckily a new era of remote-working tools is fast emerging.

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DevOps.com

JUNE 14, 2021

Companies of all sizes and across virtually every industry today have ready access to hyperscale compute, storage and myriad other technologies — without needing the significant budget or technical expertise of a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS. This is a boon for innovation. Cloud opened the door to cost optimizations, previously out-of-reach cloud-native tools, security […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

When Cory Siskind finished school, she was dropped into a high-stakes job helping large multinational corporations manage their operational security in Mexico City, with almost no relevant lived experience. Eventually, she realized that this was more or less par for the course in the corporate security field, which lagged behind other mission-critical enterprise services, like information security.

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CTOvision

JUNE 14, 2021

Read Yuval Segev and Yosi Aviram explain how small and medium businesses can practice good cyber-hygiene across their supply chains on World Economic Forum Blog : As most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are run on a low operational budget, most do not invest adequately in cybersecurity. Hence, they are becoming preferred targets for cybercriminals, […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In January, former Uber executive Liz Meyerdirk announced that she took over as chief executive of The Pill Club. The company, which offers an online birth control prescription and delivery service to hundreds of thousands of women, had hit record revenues, crossing $100 million in annual run rate for the first time in its four-year history. She found the bridge between ride-sharing to healthcare to be smoother than some might expect, saying that she focused on how to apply technology “to logist

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DevOps.com

JUNE 14, 2021

Cross-pollination, for the non-scientific, is one of the key foundations of biodiversity on Earth. It is evolution in action—responsible for reinforcing the traits that make plants stronger and ensuring the survival of many species. On a far smaller scale—but equally crucial, from a business point of view—technology applications that move across industry delineation generally gets […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

As we saw in parts 1 and 2 of this EC-1 , by mid-2013, Nubank CEO David Velez had most of what he needed to get started. He’d brought on two co-founders, assembled ambitious engineering and operations teams, raised $2 million in seed funding from Sequoia and Kaszek, rented a tiny office in São Paulo, and was armed with a mission to deliver the kind of banking services that customers in a market as large and lucrative as Brazil’s should expect.

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DevOps.com

JUNE 14, 2021

Accurics today announced it has integrated its tool for discovering violations of security policies that occur when developers provision infrastructure as code with both the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform and the static application security assessment testing (SAST) tools from GitLab. Om Moolchandani, chief information and security officer (CISO) and CTO for Accurics, […].

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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 14, 2021

Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors. On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live, we’ll sit down with MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool co-founder and CEO Chris Bennett.

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Aqua Security

JUNE 14, 2021

With extensive hands-on experience in cloud native security, we founded Darkbit to help organizations address security risks in their ever-growing and changing cloud environments. As the next chapter in our journey, we’re now joining forces with Aqua to realize this shared vision, helping deliver best in class security products that drive customers’ ongoing cloud transformation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

As we mentioned in part 1 of this EC-1 , David Velez had two key co-founding roles he needed to fill to get started building Nubank. For one, he needed a CTO to lead the engineering side of the business, as Velez didn’t have an engineering background. Edward Wible, an American computer science graduate who spent most of his career in private equity, would take that responsibility.

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CTOvision

JUNE 14, 2021

Read why Samuel Smith says that Palantir Technologies, Inc is on the way to a $1 trillion valuation on Seeking Alpha : As we detailed in our recent piece How Much Is Palantir Worth?, Palantir (PLTR) is a highly speculative stock with a wide range of potential outcomes. While it enjoys a dominant moat in […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

For most startups, the hardest early challenge is identifying a market and a product to serve it. That wasn’t the case for Nubank CEO David Velez, who understood the massive potential for success if he could break into Latin America’s most valuable economy with even a moderately modern banking offering. Instead, the challenge was how to rebuild the concept of a bank in a country where banking is widely hated, all while the incumbents heavily entrenched with the state worked to block every move.

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CTOvision

JUNE 14, 2021

The video at this link is from the 11 June 2021 House Armed Services Committee meeting. This includes testimony and questions and answers at the subcommittee on intelligence and special operations, this session is focused on FY22 Defense Intelligence Enterprise Posture. Purpose: The Subcommittee will receive testimony on the Department’s intelligence strategies, policies, and programs. […].

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Tenable

JUNE 14, 2021

A flaw in Microsoft Power Apps could allow attackers to steal emails, Teams messages and OneDrive files. Background. Microsoft recently patched a vulnerability in Microsoft Teams, a business communication platform that has surged in popularity with the shift to a remote workforce , recording 145 million daily active users in April 2021. The vulnerability, which was discovered by Tenable Zero-day Researcher Evan Grant , could allow an attacker to take control of an end-user’s account.

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