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Extra Crunch roundup: Corp dev handbook, Chicago startups, Brazil’s e-commerce landscape

TechCrunch

TechCrunch noted last year that in the decade leading up to 2020, just two of the 56 IPOs in Brazil were technology companies. More recently, the number of technology companies listed in the country has swelled to at least 16, up from just four in 2019.”. “The IPO market in Brazil is changing,” they write.

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Beekeeper, which helps companies engage with their ‘deskless’ frontline workforce, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Beekeeper’s platform constitutes tools to support messaging, surveys, video and voice chats, FAQ chatbots, workflow automation (e.g. Many had to implement new technologies to connect and empower their frontline workers — and they needed to do it fast.” for onboarding new hires), shift scheduling, documents, forms, and more.

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

TechCrunch

In Rubrik’s annual employee pulse survey, Arvind observed that one of the biggest productivity challenges was workers not being able to find the information they needed — whether a specific document or subject-matter expert. On the one hand, Glean’s technology isn’t incredibly novel.

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Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success

TechCrunch

Technology like high-quality video conferencing and the cloud have been integral in making remote work possible. Our own internal survey results tell us that while some employees prefer the option to be fully remote once the pandemic is behind us, the majority want a more flexible solution in the future.

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Daily Crunch: 4 years after launch, fintech platform Esusu saddles unicorn with $130M Series B

TechCrunch

Quan, which just raised capital, wants to tackle the former by, we report, bridging the “gap between engagement surveys and well-being perks.”. Bloss wants to link expecting parents with experts, which makes good sense, given that babies don’t precisely come with a handbook when they enter the world. TechCrunch Experts.

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Business Continuity Planning Checklist & Best Practices

RapidValue

The key area to address from a technology perspective is the ability for all the employees to collaborate with their teams and customers while being able to access all the tools and business applications that they would need to get their work done. . Conduct an employee survey for evaluating Work From Home readiness of employees.

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The Good and the Bad of TypeScript

Altexsoft

Microsoft’s solution is also compatible with all JS libraries and frameworks and can be used to create software with React , Vue , or any other technology within the JS ecosystem. This versatility along with great tooling makes TS one of the most loved languages, according to the 2019 Developer Survey by Stack Overflow.