Security Innovation

JULY 13, 2022

One of the three trends I wrote about at the beginning of 2022 is the shifting of cybersecurity org charts. One of the strategies companies employ is to tap into previously unharvested talent pools, particularly under-represented demographics such as women and people of color.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its expansion phase, backed by a $3 million pre-seed funding, the startup looks to tap some of the biggest distributors and e-commerce players in Ghana, and later Nigeria, to grow beyond Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We got an exemption from California’s Bureau of Post-Private Secondary Education (BPPE), are on the path to $1 million Annual Recurring Revenue, and we have helped people get jobs in more than seven countries,” said Yusuf. Among the new courses are product marketing, design and management, data science, engineering and analysis.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Andela , a New York-based startup that helps tech companies build remote engineering teams from Africa , was one of the first to publicly announce it was going remote on the continent. More than 30% of Andela’s inbound engineer applications also came from outside the continent in March alone. Then it became living in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

However, the situation seems to be slowly changing as noteworthy startups begin to rise from other countries within the continent, and as investors scout for fresh opportunities to spread their risk outside the Big 4. The fintech plans to enter Ghana later this year. million in seed funding.

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Github

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We’re seeing more developers experiment with foundation models from OpenAI and other AI players, with open source generative AI projects even entering the top 10 most popular open source projects by contributor count in 2023. What does it mean for a new technology to go mainstream?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts , hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a more… nefarious side. And OpenAI is heavily investing in it. We also answer the most common FAQs ( see below ).

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