TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. The undisclosed investment comes two months after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the tech giant’s intentions to commit $1 billion over the next five years in “tech-led initiatives”, which includes a $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at early- and growth-stage startups on the continent.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Speedscale today announced it is making a free edition of its observability tool for application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers. Ken Ahrens, Speedscale CEO, said the goal is to expose more developers to the company’s API testing tool that can be accessed on their local machine via a command line interface (CLI). Dubbed Speedscale […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Two years ago, a group of entrepreneurs in Pakistan began surveying the market to understand why financial services weren’t reaching the majority of merchants in the world’s fifth most populous nation. On Friday, Tiger Global said it is backing their startup, CreditBook , to help address those challenges. This is the New York-headquartered firm’s first investment in Pakistan.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Research estimates that cybercrime is going to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, so it is no surprise that cybersecurity has become a top priority for business leaders. Today, security teams are striving to harden their systems against cyberattacks and improve their resilience through more employee security training, incident response programs and the […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Just two and a half months after emerging from stealth , weight care management startup Found announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $600 million. WestCap — a growth equity firm founded by former Blackstone and Airbnb executive Laurence Tosi — led the investment, with participation from IVP, The Chernin Group, G9 Ventures and Able Partners.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Denver-based software startup Gtmhub announced this morning that it has closed a $120 million Series C. Index Ventures led the round, with a number of prior investors contributing as well. Before its new investment, Gtmhub had raised just over $40 million in total , making its Series C around triple its prior aggregate capital base. The OKR software market that the startup competes in has had a busy year, helping make the huge round more understandable than it is when simply compared to Gtmhub&

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For decades, business leaders have sought to break unproductive habits within organizations that hinder productivity and innovation. This gave rise to the field of business transformation, which has seen countless transformations of its own. While a number of methodologies and strategies exist to provide a framework for business transformation, there are two that our own […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Instant grocery — where urban-dwelling consumers buy food and other essentials and can get them delivered in 15 minutes or less — continues to be a big business, and one of the juggernauts in the space is now raising a big round of funding to meet that opportunity: Gopuff is in the process of raising $1.5 billion, with a valuation of up to $40 billion.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Cyberattacks have grown rapidly over the past few years and no industry is safe. Not only have cyberattacks become way more sophisticated, they increased by 29% across organizations worldwide during the first half of 2021. Plus, with the rapid rise of the BYOD culture in the workplace and thousands of personal devices connecting to corporate networks, the chances of malware attacks are only getting higher.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Capital may help someone take the jump into entrepreneurship, but what about the activation energy to let them think that big in the first place? To Cory Levy , the latter has always been more important. The entrepreneur behind First Text , a low-friction service that connects founders to investors, launched Z Fellows last year to test out his take.

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Dataiku

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this episode of the Banana Data Podcast, our hosts are joined by Nathan Mannheimer (Director of Data Science and ML at Tableau) as they unriddle the value of data visualization, explore what can go right and what can go wrong, and search for an answer to inquiries surrounding the future of data visualization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

French startup Voodoo has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in blockchain-powered mobile games. The company estimates that it represents a $200 million investment over the coming years. 2021 has been an important year for crypto gaming, with Axie Infinity popularizing the play-to-earn model. Some companies, such as Mythical Games, raised massive funding rounds and are working on mainstream crypto games.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Why Is Code Review Important? Peer code review is a widely used technique by software engineering teams. The intuition is that if more software engineers review the code, there will be fewer bugs, and, in general, the maintainability of the code will be improved. According to this study , such intuition is justified.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Continual , a startup that aims to bring operational AI to the modern data warehouse-centric data stack, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Amplify Partners , with Illuminate Ventures, Essence, Wayfinder and Data Community Fund also participating in the round. With this announcement, Continual is also opening up its service as a public beta , after testing it with a number of select customers in recent months.

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David Walsh

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There are a number of utilities required to really power a content management system and its users. One of the most important utilities is a performant, feature-rich WYSIWYG editor. We’ve always had to choose between the two exiting editors, CKEditor and TinyMCE, but now we have Froala, a next generation WYSIWYG editor from Sencha. Quick Hits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Climate change is affecting the way farmers grow their crops, and Phytoform, which knows all about the harsh United Kingdom growing conditions, is out to make crops more impervious. The biotechnology company with headquarters in London and Boston announced $5.7 million in funding, led by Eniac Ventures, to scale its artificial intelligence genome editing technology aimed at improving crops.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 16, 2021

An initial distributed deployment of Confluent Platform is often a necessary step toward supporting your first real-time data use case. We offer enterprise-grade deployment orchestration with Confluent for Kubernetes and […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 16, 2021

About the report. The Cloudera Enterprise Data Maturity Report is a global survey of 3,150 business and IT decision makers assessing organizations’ maturity when it comes to their current capabilities and handling of data and analytics. Organizations were evaluated based on their current use of data and analytics, parties championing the use of data and the extent to which data is used across processes, the presence of enterprise data strategies, and the extent to which capabilities relating to

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Juan Carlos Hernández. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Juan Carlos Hernández is the executive director at parallel18 , a top-level, performance-driven international startup program with a social mission, part of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. Startup markets around the world are heating up, and more investors are competing against each other for the best deals.

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Dell EMC

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Near and long-term predictions addressing the way we will harness data to transform our experiences at work, home and in the classroom.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

When it comes to online payments, the front end of the system has seen a massive amount of disruption in the last several years, with companies like Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, Square and others building APIs that make it very simple for online merchants to integrate easy payment services into their checkout flows. But when it comes to the backend, the rails other tech used to actually pass on payment information and make the transactions are more often than not decades old.

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Beyond B2B

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Whereas new movies in 2022 are easy enough to predict, with sequels from Top Gun Maverick (May), to Mission:Impossible 7 (September) and Avatar 2 (December), there is a lot less certainty in financial markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Exchange joked earlier this week that Christmas had come early thanks to a particular SPAC deck providing us with some good fun. Ha. Little did we know what was coming. Social hub Reddit filed to go public , TechCrunch reports. You know what that means: It’s time to ask questions. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Our reader poll today asks: Which best describes your organization? We are meticulous planners, and things always run smoothly 4.41% We plan well but have an occasional crisis 48.74% We try to plan, but crises tend to run our lives 34.59% There’s no planning, and we’re in perpetual crisis 12.26% Crisis of the day. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

French startup La Belle Vie announced that it has raised a $28.2 million (€25 million) Series B round led by Left Lane and Quadrille Capital, with existing investor Capagro also participating. The company operates an online grocery store in the Paris area. Online grocery delivery services and so-called quick-commerce startups are quite trendy. In fact, it has become an incredibly crowded space.

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Dell EMC

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Learn about new PCIe Gen4 Data Center NVMe drives in PowerEdge servers to make informed decisions for your storage needs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Working together at Uber’s risk team, Yifu Diao and Ming Fang came to realize that with the hypergrowth the company was seeing came fraud challenges. Diao’s first project at the company after starting in 2014 was building a rules engine called Mastermind to fight fraud. That engine, he says, allowed risk analysts to build and rollout rules without the help of engineers.

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