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Extra Crunch roundup: cohort analysis, YC Demo Day recaps, building your supply chain

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To compete with retail banks, many newcomers are offering customers credit and debit cards ; developer-friendly APIs make issuance relatively easy, and tools for managing processes like KYC are available off the shelf. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Anu Muralidharan, COO, Expensify.

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Halcyon lands large investment to defend against ransomware

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Seventy-eight percent of companies responding to a recent survey said that they plan to increase their investments in cybersecurity in the next 12 months. Seventy-eight percent of companies responding to a recent survey said that they plan to increase their investments in cybersecurity in the next 12 months.

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10 things keeping IT leaders up at night

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For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023. CIOs are hardly Luddites, but even some technologists fret about artificial intelligence, the rapid pace of tech evolution, and their ability to keep up. Yet CIOs do admit that they’re worried about multiple issues these days.

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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

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To wit, the platform has team members complete surveys that ask them to rate the truthfulness of statements like “We make decisions quickly” and “We focus on the most important things.” Valence , a growing teamwork platform, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

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global inflation rate, an ongoing talent squeeze, and persistent supply issues as a triple threat to CIOs’ ability to realize time to value for their tech investments this year, according to its 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey , which gathered data from 2,203 CIOs in 81 countries and all major industries.

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Hivery bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

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For example, according to a recent survey by Retail Insights, seven out of 10 consumers believe that stockouts — events that cause inventory to be exhausted — are worse today than they were during peak pandemic-induced panic buying. “Today, if you walk into one of the major retail chains in the U.S.,

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Can Mill’s tech-heavy food waste bin find its way into kitchens?

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Rogers is back at it , this time with fellow Nest alumnus Harry Tannenbaum. The duo and their team at Mill have cooked up what is probably the world’s heaviest, most expensive, and most sophisticated kitchen waste bin. Mill’s aim is to eliminate carbon emissions that result from the decomposition of food waste.