TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

If you’ve been watching the recent wave of shows on disgraced startups (from Theranos to WeWork), you might be under the impression that startup founders have no sense of responsibility. In my experience, however, the opposite is much more common: Entrepreneurs tend to feel guilty about things that are just part of startup life. For instance, many founders feel quite badly about merely admitting that they wouldn’t say “no” to a good enough acquisition offer, or telling th

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) can help customers shopping online preview products before making a purchase, and is a growing area of investment for e-commerce businesses. According to a recent survey of 16,000 Snapchat users in 16 markets, 92% of Gen Zers want to use AR and VR for online shopping. Now, a South Korean augmented reality (AR) startup called RECON Labs , which enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models within a few hours by taking a short video of products via its platform PlicAR, ha

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DevOps.com

MAY 2, 2022

An analysis of more than 340,000 bugs collected by Applause, a provider of a testing platform designed to integrate with a range of DevOps platforms, found functional bugs accounted for 68% of issues. The research gathered data from 13,000 mobile devices and 1,000 unique desktops running 500 versions of operating systems and found that the […].

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Ross Haleliuk. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ross Haleliuk is a venture capitalist and head of product at LimaCharlie.io. Product-led growth is one of the most commonly discussed topics in the startup world as the market cap of public companies utilizing the growth tactic skyrocketed in recent years. It’s no different in the cybersecurity space. Why?

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Fintech companies and other entities have moved the needle for consumer payments in Latin America, particularly during the global pandemic, prompting consumers to be more comfortable with digital payments. Chile-based Xepelin aims to do the same with business-to-business payments via a SaaS payments infrastructure that includes financial information in real time, embedded financial services and data models, all to be a company’s “digital CFO” of sorts.

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DevOps.com

MAY 2, 2022

Organizations that need compliance must follow a growing number of security standards—PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR just to name a few. Every new standard gives rise to an exhaustive list of hard-to-implement security controls. Cloud providers like AWS have tried to help, but there is still a lot left for developers to do to […]. The post Self-Service Helps Devs Solve Cloud Security and Compliance appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

LinearB , a startup that helps engineering leaders optimize the workflow of their development teams, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Tribe Capital. New investor Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors Battery Ventures and 83North, also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $71 million.

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CEO Insider

MAY 2, 2022

The 6 thinking hats is one method used to enhance creative conversations. This method ensures that a wide variety of views and ways of thinking are represented. Using the 6 roles or else what hats represent, the framework allows teams to structure abstract thinking for productive results. But what does each hat represent? The blue […]. The post The 6 Thinking Hats appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1 million new round (it’s a nice photo; we used it on this post , too). Clearly we’re not the only ones who saw promise in the company’s mission.

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Aqua Security

MAY 2, 2022

In its recent Innovation Insight for SBOMs report,* Gartner highlights the benefits of using software bills of materials (SBOMs) to secure modern, fast-paced DevOps pipelines. SBOMs shed light on blind spots in the software supply chain by enumerating all proprietary and open source components and enable the effective mitigation of risks. Without this visibility, organizations’ software supply chains are left exposed to potential security vulnerabilities, quality issues, and compliance risks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

When Matthew Dunbabin saw the devastation wrought on tropical reef ecosystems by overfishing and climate change, he wondered if robots could help. With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. While initial results were promising, prospects for actually deploying the bots seemed dim.

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DevOps.com

MAY 2, 2022

It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts on our perceived shame. If not pruned, it grows and wraps its tendrils around the workforce, draining the energy out of every digital […]. The post Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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

MAY 2, 2022

Instant grocery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its 10-minute delivery service to more cities in India and grow its network of dark stores. Existing backer Y Combinator Continuity led Zepto’s Series D round, valuing the Mumbai-headquartered startup at about $900 million, up from $570 million in its December Series C round and $225 million in a round unveiled in late October.

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CloudZero

MAY 2, 2022

The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to increase transparency on a company’s carbon footprint, which ultimately would impact valuations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Traceable AI , a startup offering services designed to protect APIs from cyberattacks, today announced that it raised $60 million in a Series B round led by IVP with participation from BIG Labs, Unusual Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and several undisclosed angel investors. The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product dev

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Dell EMC

MAY 2, 2022

Today’s APEX and multi-cloud announcements simplify IT complexity and extend our ecosystem so you can unlock the power of multi-cloud.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The pace at which startups raise rounds worth $100 million or greater is slowing, according to early data. Looking at historical periods stretching back a year, TechCrunch’s analysis of Pitchbook data shows Q2 2022 is on pace to undershoot the first quarter’s tally of so-called mega-rounds. And data from Crunchbase shows a similar decline.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 2, 2022

This article introduces a new actor for visualising chaos engineering and observability: metaphors. It provides the conceptual foundations of chaos engineering and observability, presents a state of art of visualisation techniques available in the market and shows how treemaps, gauge charts, geocentric and city metaphors can enrich the spectrum of the visual strategies to observe the chaos.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

After a week of making headlines, one-click-checkout startup Bolt has issued a public response to questions about how it’s faring in the competitive space. CEO Maju Kuruvilla issued a blog post today acknowledging that the company “has become very popular in the media these past few months.”. In case you missed it, last week the startup was in the news for a number of reasons outlined here , including a lawsuit filed by a major customer and reports that it is seeing a slowdown in revenue and cus

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Dell EMC

MAY 2, 2022

The twin engines of human inspiration and technology innovation drive human progress and improve lives on a global scale.

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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

MAY 2, 2022

There’s no shortage of fintechs claiming to build a more inclusive, mission-driven fintech platform for lower-income individuals. However, hurdles like required credit history or predatory interest rates and fees limits an entire cohort of people from engaging in our financial systems. Akshay Krishnaiah , the founder and CEO of Line , thinks he can get users onboard for his vision of a more inclusive financial network.

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IDC

MAY 2, 2022

According to the latest update of IDC's Worldwide ICT Spending Guide Industry and Company Size, V1 April 2022, the Russia-Ukraine conflict will affect 2022 spending across all industries in CEE, but resource industries, consumer, transportation, personal and consumer services, and education will see the largest drops.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Co-branded rewards programs like Amex’s longrunning Delta partnership are a major factor in consumers’ credit card decisions. According to a GigaPoints/Ipsos poll , over half of Americans say that earning points makes them want to use their credit card more often. In a separate survey (conducted by Finder), close to a third of respondents said that they’ve used a credit card solely to rack up rewards points.

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Robots and Pencils

MAY 2, 2022

A one size fits all approach no longer works for today’s learners pursuing higher education. Students are coming from a breadth of backgrounds and experience. They’re juggling demands involving finances, jobs, family members, and other personal issues. Each person has different needs, goals, and prior knowledge to be accounted for. Often, these individuals care less about degree titles and more about learning specific, in-demand skills that will get them where they want to go.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Accern , which uses AI to analyze online conversations around particular companies, trends, and industries, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Mighty Capital alongside Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures, Gaingels and Fusion Fund and others. CEO Kumesh Aroomoogan says that the new capital will be put toward “product-led growth,” expansion into new markets, and R&D on Accern’s AI technologies. “More than 80% of the world’s data is un

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Dell EMC

MAY 2, 2022

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MAY 2, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. Thankfully we did not start this episode by talking about Elon Musk and Twitter! You are welcome! Instead we started with bleak Chinese economic news , that segued into falling venture capital totals for a key startup sector in that country.

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