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‘Knowledge-as-a-service’ platform Lynk announces collaboration with UBS

TechCrunch

Founded in 2015, Lynk has raised a total of $30 million in funding, including a $24 million round announced in January that was led by Brewer Lane Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with participation from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing.

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With a fresh $46M, Instabug aims to do more than fix your app’s bugs

TechCrunch

Instabug , a startup that aims to help mobile developers monitor, identify and fix bugs within apps, has raised $46 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. The company was founded in 2013, first released its offering in beta in 2015, and publicly launched in February 2016 during its time at Y Combinator.

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. However, that figure isn’t the only yardstick. It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. billion and $1.8

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LinkSquares benefits from the legal tech boom with a fresh $100M

TechCrunch

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. Image Credits: LinkSquares.

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

TechCrunch

CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud. “Customers don’t want to talk to sellers.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. Lynch’s lawyers will later claim that HP executives spent just six hours in conference calls with his team.

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

For teams dealing with loads of technical debt, microservices offer a path to the promised land. Higher frequency releases and increased collaboration between dev and ops is exciting, but it’s important to stay diligent. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. That doesn’t mean it will be easy though.