CEO Insider
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Good leaders understand that people are their greatest asset. Prioritising the needs and well-being of your people can have a remarkable impact on the organisation and your bottom line. In this profit-driven world, we live in today, it’s no surprise that sales, margins, shareholder return and revenue is at the forefront of most leaders’ minds. […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Entrepreneur First (EF), an accelerator-come-company builder, is partnering with the Tezos crypto platform to attract new potential founders to Web3. EF specializes in putting together early-career co-founders, developing their ideas and putting them in front of investors. Technical training and guidance will be provided by experts from the Tezos community.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Want to empower your team? Find opportunities in the chaos. During times of uncertainty and change, it’s easy for your team to get lost in the chaotic swirl of indecision —to wring their hands and wait and see. It’s also the perfect time to empower your team, to step up and take the lead. “Where there is chaos, seize control.” One of my early bosses and mentors, Gail, said this to me almost daily during a turbulent time at Verizon.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Africa Health Holdings , a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go toward building its “tech-forward healthcare system” across Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. The funding round, led by Asia Pacific Land and Natural World Limited, saw the participation of a number of investors including TRB Advisors, Breyer Capital, M3, Inc., Valiant Capital, Kepple Ventures and SUNU Capital.
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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.
CEO Insider
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Did you know there’s two definitions of collaboration in the Oxford dictionary? The first is “the action of working with someone to produce something”. Which is what we mean when we say we want collaboration. The second is “traitorous communication with an enemy”. Which is sometimes how it feels when collaboration isn’t working. Even the […].
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DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Terraform is widely adopted among both enterprises and service providers who embrace infrastructure-as-code (IaC) as their model for infrastructure provisioning automation in DevOps environments. And while the technology has limitations, innovations seeking to unseat Terraform are highly fragmented and have seen tepid adoption. This points to a market that’s settling on a de-facto standard, so […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round (following a $5 million seed round in March of this year), making it one of the most funded edtech startups in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), a region that encompasses 160 million students. The round was led by existing investor BECO Capital (UAE) and joined by 4DX Ventures (USA), GSV Ventures (USA), Watar Partners (KSA) and others.
TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Over the past two years, chief information security officers have had to face an increasingly hostile cybersecurity landscape, with cyberattacks continuing to rise in volume, velocity, and sophistication—a situation aggravated by the borderless IT environment many CISOs find themselves working in.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Doola, a startup that aims to help global entrepreneurs form a U.S. business, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Doola actually started its life in 2020 as StartPack as a pivot from another startup called Standups. During that pivot process, the team realized that it didn’t want to go through the “complex and time-consuming” process of setting up the full-stack of software and accounts needed to get a business off the ground. .
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Era Software has unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its platform for collecting and managing log data that is based on a time-series database it built. At the same time, the company has revamped the user interface of the underlying EraSearch log management platform that IT teams can deploy themselves to make it simpler to […]. The post Era Software Adds SaaS Edition of Log Management Platform appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
What could an early-stage founder do with a $25,000 investment? Hypothetically, they could use that money to buy 50 Herman Miller Aeron chairs or five top-of-the-line MacBook Pros for the engineering team. Or, they could use the funds to kick-start their 2022 marketing efforts. A new year is quickly approaching, which brings new resolutions — and new budgets.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Smart homes are the future, but what do you do if you have an old air conditioner or heater in your home? Replacing old devices isn’t always feasible, but you can automate them with a Raspberry Pi.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Micro and small businesses in emerging markets still struggle to access digital payments for several reasons. One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . U.K.-based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware.
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.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The desire to work from home or from anywhere has only increased as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. Employees cite a number of reasons why they prefer to skip the office, including cutting commuting times, being more productive, caring for family members and exploring new locations. People are increasingly comfortable with remote interactions and the new […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
I mprint, a one-year-old startup that offers branded payments and rewards products, today announced a $38 million Series A funding round co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Stripe. . It’s not every day that a leading fintech player and top-tier venture capital firm co-lead an investment. Notably, Imprint was also co-founded by a VC — Thrive Capital partner Gaurav Ahuja (chairman) along with Daragh Murphy (CEO).
Mentormate
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Minneapolis, MN, November 16, 2021 /PRNEWS/ — After a successful rebrand earlier this month, MentorMate continues its evolution with the acquisition of Data Cloud Solutions Ltd., a data management company with a team of consultants proficient in ETL development, Oracle, AWS, Airflow, and more. This acquisition answers the growing demand from the company’s enterprise clients for capabilities such as data architecture, big data processing, performance tuning, business intelligence, machine l
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Technology aimed at older people, whether it be healthcare, fintech or entertainment, is not new, but a new community of startups, investors and global industry leaders are shining a light on what they say is an $8.3 trillion opportunity. AgeTech Collaborative from AARP is bringing together organizations, like T. Rowe Price, Walgreens, Cooley and QED Investors, to scale startup products and tools and get them in front of AARP’s 38 million members.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Even after delivering a project to a client, the software engineer’s job is not complete. The next phase is ensuring service reliability. In site reliability engineering (SRE) practice, there are two key concepts that the engineer should know, service level objective (SLO) and service level indicator (SLI). This article looks into the importance of SLIs and SLOs in SREs and how to implement them.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Monograph, a startup providing a cloud-based platform for architecture and design professionals to manage their projects, announced today that it has raised $20 million in its Series B funding round. New investor Tiger Global led the round, with participation from Tishman Speyer and existing investors Index Ventures and Homebrew Ventures. The round brings Monograph’s total funding raised to $29.3 million since it was founded in 2019.
Tenable
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Employees at the largest firms are least likely to adhere to wifi and password security guidelines. The security of a company is often in the hands of the employees who access its data day-to-day. New data from a global study commissioned by Tenable and conducted by Forrester Consulting reveals that remote employees’ use of personal devices, their adherence to security guidelines and their sense of responsibility for company security vary based on the size of the company they work for. .
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Former venture-backed startup Casper is going private in an all-cash transaction, it announced this morning. Since its early-2020 IPO, Casper has struggled as a public concern , seeing the majority of its value evaporate after its operating results failed to excite investors. Casper will sell for $6.90 per share, or around a 94% “premium to the closing share price on November 12, 2021,” per its own mathematics.
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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.
Palo Alto Networks
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
A steady stream of cyberattacks are making headlines, from sophisticated nation-state actors, to ever-increasing ransomware demands and attacks on critical infrastructure. Strong and consistent public-private partnerships and collaboration are mission-critical to keeping our governments, organizations and individual citizens protected from these threats.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Podium is back at the fundraising well this year, adding $201 million to its accounts at a $3 billion valuation (post-money). The Utah-based company, which provides software services including communications and payments tools to SMBs, last raised $125 million at a roughly $1.5 billion valuation. That deal was announced in April 2020. Podium CEO Eric Rea told Bloomberg that the company has “well over $100 million in annual recurring revenue.” TechCrunch confirmed the metric with the
Dataiku
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Automation is a fantastic and scary word. We hear about it in the press with robots doing jobs in manufacturing that people used to do. Robotic process automation (RPA) software captures and automates repetitive business tasks. In many cases, machines and software are better suited to these repetitive jobs — they don't get bored, they deliver consistent quality, and they don't leave or demand a transfer to a better paying, more exciting job.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
A brand new social media platform focusing on social responsibility today announced it snagged $1.2 million to change the face of fundraising from a Gen Z perspective. Wishly is aimed at the curious Venn-diagram intersection of consumer brands, philanthropists and nonprofit organizations. The hope is to leverage the power of social media for social good.
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“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.
CloudZero
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
EC2 instances come with a spider web of charges — when you take a look at your bill, you’ll see there are hundreds of unique line items connected to your usage. In addition to the instance, you’re also billed for storage, data transfer, and networking associated with that instance. It’s important to fully understand those charges so you can find ways to optimize your costs.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. Today, seven years after that announcement, the company finally has a C round, a $200 million investment on a $1.05 billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. The company has gone on record with TechCrunch that there are lots of reasons for the gap, and when it promoted COO Amir Movafaghi to CEO in 2018, it was the first in a series o
Daffodil Software
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
DevOps proved to be a successful collaboration between the development and operations team to bring software to market, as fast as possible. The CI/CD pipeline ensured that quality accompanies speed in development.
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