TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. Docugami plans to change that with a system that intuitively understands any set of documents and intelligently indexes their contents — and NASA is already on board.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Strategic partnerships with human resources professional can be game-changers. Your human resources professionals can be wonderful strategic partners and collaborate with you to achieve amazing results—but it takes trust and a solid relationship to get there. Too many leaders miss out on the huge strategic potential of their human resources partnerships.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. Grover , a Berlin-based startup that runs a subscription model where people can for set fees rent out consumer electronics like computers, smart phones, games consoles and scooters, has picked up €60 million ($71 million).

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2021

Decentralized smart contracts platform, Avalanche, has integrated with The Graph to expand querying and indexing on the platform. According to a press release shared with Coin Rivet, developers building on Avalanche can easily query custom on-chain data requests, without having to run a full node, via subgraphs, which are indexes of specifically-defined blockchain data.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box , which emerged originally from Greece, has raised a Series A investment round of $10.6 million, led by Paladin Capital Group and joined by Osage University Partners, Brighteye Ventures and existing investors Marathon Venture Capital. It will use the funding to expand. Most recently it launched Hack The Box Academy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Son Nguyen, founder and chief executive officer of Dat Bike. Dat Bike , a Vietnamese startup with ambitions to become the top electric motorbike company in Southeast Asia, has raised $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures. Made in Vietnam with mostly domestic parts, Dat Bike’s selling point is its ability to compete with gas motorbikes in terms of pricing and performance.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Read Jillian Hamilton explain how the Palantir Technologies $89.9 million contract with the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration could help the job landscape on Clearance Jobs : In a cleared market, passive candidates with an active clearance are a recruiters dream. It pays to keep your eye on the job landscape so that you’re ready […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Equipment at Battery Resourcers’ new cathode sintering and analysis facility in Novi, Michigan. (Photo: Battery Resourcers). As a greater share of the transportation market becomes electrified, companies have started to grapple with how to dispose of the thousands of tons of used electric vehicle batteries that are expected to come off the roads by the end of the decade.

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2021

Read explain how Chainlink’s modular oracle for Substrate framework can give greater informational access to De-Fi applications, users and developers on Bitcoin News : As demand for smart contracts climbs, Chainlink’s modular oracle for the Substrate framework aims to power developers and defi applications with trusted off-chain information and pricing data needed to attract projects […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

The Zebra , an Austin-based company that operates an insurance comparison site, has raised $150 million in a Series D round that propels it into unicorn territory. Both the round size and valuation are a substantial bump from the $38.5 million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. (The company would not disclose its valuation at that time, saying now only that its new valuation of over $1 billion is a “nice step up.”).

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 12, 2021

As a member of the Agile Alliance, did you know that your membership dues are supporting agile conferences worldwide? For several years we have administered the Conference Sponsorship Initiative as a way to bring new and exciting Agile content to the global Agile community, and support Agile communities throughout the world in growing and offering … Continued.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Ethical investing remains something of a confusing maze, with a great deal of “greenwashing” going on. A new U.K. startup is hoping to fix that with the launch of its new app and platform for retail investors. Clim8 Invest has raised $8 million from 7pc Ventures (early backers of Oculus, acquired by Facebook), British Business Bank Future Fund and a number of technology entrepreneurs and executives including Marcus Exall (Monese), Marcus Mosen (N26), Paul Willmott (Lego Digital, McK

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2021

Some things don't change, even during a pandemic. Consistent with previous years, in CIO’s 2021 State of the CIO survey, a plurality of the 1,062 IT leaders surveyed chose “data/business analytics” as the No.1 tech initiative expected to drive IT investment. Unfortunately, analytics initiatives seldom do nearly as well when it comes to stakeholder satisfaction.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Out the window, a fire is raging — and it’s moving ever closer. Confusion. Fear. A run for the car. Roads open and then suddenly closed by authorities. Traffic jams. A fire break that stalls the flames and then suddenly the flames jump, changing direction. Everyone has a plan for what to do — a plan that gets ripped up the second someone leaves their home to evacuate.

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APRIL 12, 2021

We had reported about Anduril Industries, Inc’s acquisition of drone maker Area-I, David Hambling takes a look at how the acquisition will pan out on Forbes: Defense startup Anduril has moved closer to its ambition to build a new industry giant with the acquisition of drone maker Area-I. Combining Anduril’s cutting-edge AI with Area-I’s proven […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One of the best parts of TechCrunch Disrupt is the Startup Battlefield competition, and one of the most important pieces of the Startup Battlefield is our lineup of expert judges — they’re the ones the founders are trying to impress. Once the demos and presentations are done, the judges need to think quickly and ask probing questions about each startup.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Search company Elastic N.V. has expanded its strategic partnership with Confluent, Inc. to offer an improved experience to Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch users. Elastic (ESTC) CEO, Shay Banon said, “Kafka has been, and continues to be, an important component of the Elastic ecosystem. We are committed to deepening our partnership and working together with confluent, which […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

EcoCart , a company pitching consumers on ways to offset their carbon emissions for free at select merchants ( with a browser extension! ) has raised $3 million in financing from Base10 Partners. Brands pay the company a commission to drive traffic to their websites under a standard affiliate marketing model and EcoCart uses a portion of the proceeds to offset a shopper’s carbon emissions.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 12, 2021

DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the most well-loved DevOps tools available today. But, throwing loads of money into fancy SaaS solutions can quickly gobble up the cloud budget. These DevOps tools all are open source, and […]. The post 11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In the earliest stages of building a startup, it can be hard to justify focusing on anything other than creating a great product or service and meeting the needs of customers or users. However, there are still a number of surefire measures that any early-stage company can and should put in place to achieve “people ops” success as they begin scaling, according to venture capital firm Atomico ‘s talent partners, Caro Chayot and Dan Hynes.

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Aqua Security

APRIL 12, 2021

As with every new Kubernetes release there are a great number of new features, however there are a couple of key changes which could have impacts to security and are worth looking at in more details. In addition to the deprecation of PodSecurityPolicies , we’ll also look at some newly promoted features being put in place to block Kubernetes vulnerabilities and things like the new IPv6 support which will be one to take account of when designing cluster network security controls.

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APRIL 12, 2021

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David Walsh

APRIL 12, 2021

Formatting numbers on the client side is an important task, especially when you consider how much raw API usage is in play these days. What’s also important is ensuring those numbers are meaningful to users, no matter where they are in the world, especially if you’re an eCommerce website. Writing internationalization code can be a nightmare but luckily JavaScript provides us Intl.NumberFormat , an API for internationalizing numbers as currencies and more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A few months back, robotic process automation (RPA) unicorn UiPath raised a huge $750 million round at a valuation of around $35 billion. The capital came ahead of the company’s expected IPO, so its then-new valuation helped provide a measuring stick for where its eventual flotation could price. UiPath then filed to go public. But today the company’s first IPO price range was released , failing to value the company where its final private backers expected it to.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Read Nicole Willing’s predictions for Ethereum for 2021 and beyond on Capital : The ETH price briefly touched $2,000 (£1,500, ?1,680) in February’s cryptocurrency rally and has moved back above that level in April, gaining 183.2% so far this year. The Ethereum ecosystem has emerged as the first choice for developers launching decentralised finance (DeFI) applications […].

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APRIL 12, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 12, 2021

Today’s organizations need to enable their IT teams to rapidly deploy, manage and maintain their applications and services. This is a primary driver behind the growth in adoption of DevOps. By uniting the IT operations and software development teams, organizations are helping to provide continuous delivery and accelerating the systems development life cycle.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Read Ronen Botzer take a look at two case studies of firms using Aerospike for hyperscale implementation on Aerospike Blog : At Aerospike, our customers are at the forefront of innovation. The Aerospike database makes it possible for them to implement a wide range of hyperscale real time use cases. They’re scaling cybersecurity defenses, running […].

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