TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The real estate sales market has been in an upswing this year, and today a startup that’s addressing one of homeowners’ biggest needs — repair and maintenance services, and specifically the stress of sorting these out when things break down — is announcing some funding on the heels of strong growth. More on that below.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” If you have a high-risk project, it’s very convenient to go to the security blanket of putting your top engineers on it,” he says. From Wijegunawardena’s standpoint, those two things are not orthogonal at all. “If

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 5, 2021

I wrote The Future of DevSecOps in June 2019 after gathering insights from IT professionals who foresaw: greater adoption, security being ingrained in development, and, AI/ML-driven automation. Security automation and real-time protection are the key criteria for ensuring the success of the DevSecOps movement.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Address security concerns that prevent collaborative development. Ensure each team includes people who have business, market, and product expertise. Give each team full responsibility over particular products or market segments. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Address security concerns that prevent collaborative development. See the “Address Security Concerns” section.). The VP liked what I had to say. Reaching the Economic Buyer.

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