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In 2016, Andrew Ng, one of the best-known researchers in the field of AI,wroteabout the benefits of establishing a chief AI officer role in companies, as well as the characteristics and responsibilities such a role should have. But as the complexity and scope of AI grows, the specialization of the CAIO makes the difference, he says.

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JULY 8, 2021

And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016. The company has then added various infrastructure products around USDC, such as Circle Accounts. In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. But the country has faced extensive criticism for its human rights record by international rights groups.

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Building generative AI applications presents significant challenges for organizations: they require specialized ML expertise, complex infrastructure management, and careful orchestration of multiple services. This will provision the backend infrastructure and services that the sales analytics application will rely on.

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JULY 15, 2022

This regulation is why we can link our bank accounts to Venmo or Zelle to send money to our friends or why Stripe and Plaid have been able to revolutionize payment infrastructure for so many businesses. Now, healthcare is seeing a regulatory catalyst of its own.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Of course, SoftBank knows quite a bit about the Arm ecosystem, having acquired British chipmaker Arm Holdings in 2016 for $32 billion. Growing AI portfolio For SoftBank, the Ampere deal fits into a broader investment strategy around AI infrastructure. SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son will serve as chairman of the project.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane Investments , investing in cloud infrastructure and security startups. His previous company, Uhana, launched in 2016, was backed by NEA and had been acquired by VMWare in three years. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S. Mahendra Ramsinghani. Contributor.

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APRIL 11, 2023

.” Stretch was the creator and chief project maintainer for NetBox , a popular open source infrastructure resource modeling (IRM) tool developed around 2016 while Stretch was at DigitalOcean. NetBox dashboard Image Credits : NetBox While NetBox is available for free to anyone under an open source Apache 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Power , a fintech infrastructure startup, is now kicking off its full-stack credit card issuance platform after a year in stealth mode and with $16.1 Prior to Acorns, Fernando was founder and CEO at Vault, which was acquired by Acorns and was a Disrupt Battlefield company in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Aditya Haripurkar told TechCrunch HitPay started in 2016 as an e-wallet but then pivoted toward being an SME-facing platform in 2018 as a virtual POS product. As its team began to understand the needs of SMEs more, it started to develop the other tools on the platform.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. . Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed. They are building Africa’s API infrastructure that connects bank accounts with financial institutions and third-party companies for different purposes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2016, viAct currently serves more than 30 construction industry clients in Asia and Europe. The startup announced today it has raised a $2 million seed round, co-led by SOSV and Vectr Ventures. The funding included participation from Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, Artesian Ventures and ParticleX.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Multinationals like Amazon and Alibaba have leveraged logistics infrastructure such as UPS and FedEx to create large businesses. It’s not the same in Africa, where few third-party infrastructure players exist to provide end-to-end logistics to e-commerce companies. Initially , PAPS operated a consumer-to-consumer logistics model.

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MARCH 22, 2022

“There’s an urgent need for a global air traffic management solution to enable safe and efficient drone and urban air mobility (UAM) operations, and Terra Drone aims to be the leading player building the digital infrastructure in the sky.” . million Series A in February 2021. . and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The rapid growth of e-commerce in Indonesia, especially during the pandemic, is placing increasing demands on its supply chain infrastructure. Advotics is among several tech startups that are taking different approaches to tackle Indonesia’s logistics infrastructure. million funding round led by East Ventures.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. São Paulo-based Pismo is one of those infrastructure providers.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

It brings the startup’s total raised since its 2016 inception to $35.5 The pair worked together previously at SolidFire, a flash storage startup that Wright founded and sold to NetApp for $870 million in 2016. With Reserve Trust, we are creating foundational infrastructure to hold and move payments globally and at scale.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The general idea here — which is similar to the “infrastructure-as-code” movement — is to allow business operations teams to automate the labor-intensive and error-prone ways they currently use to manage SaaS platforms. “So we adapted software development fundamentals and best practices to the BizOps field. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“Companies operating in the cloud need to be able to identify and respond to risk in real time, and looking at cloud infrastructure or containers independently simply doesn’t provide enough context to truly understand where you are vulnerable,” he explained. Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sure , an insurance infrastructure startup, announced today that it has closed on $100 million in Series C funding at a $550 million valuation. Sure launched its first (enterprise SaaS) product in early 2016, and today counts traditional financial services and fintech companies alike among its customers. Berkley and Menlo Ventures.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

From Nigeria, Indicina facilitates lending for individuals and small businesses through AI-powered digital credit infrastructure. These startups will join the Catalyst Fund’s existing portfolio of 37 companies, which have raised over $122 million in follow-on funding since 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

China’s autonomous vehicle industry first started seeing some traction around 2016, when a bunch of ambitious startups mushroomed following advances in lidar, computing and machine learning. Momenta has a strategic partnership with the government of Suzhou, its home city, to put robotaxi fleets on the city’s roads.

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JULY 25, 2022

Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. As the founder of an infrastructure project that has been around since 2016, I want to remind you that web3 isn’t just a drop-down menu of features to be bolted on to your project. Doug Petkanics. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And where new organization types bloom, so does the need for infrastructure. And with the vast majority of DAOs operating across international boundaries on a global scale, there is a big need for infrastructure build out that takes over where the contract ends, namely in areas like payroll, expenses, token distribution and HR management. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This is the latest in a string of high-profile announcements for Axiom, which was founded in 2016 by a team including space professionals with a history of demonstrated expertise working on the International Space Station.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Startups are helping cloud infrastructure customers avoid vendor lock-in. Frayman has been involved with multiple startups including Cujo.ai , a consumer firewall startup that participated in TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in New York in 2016. Cujo is a firewall for the connected smart home network.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Neobanks, other financial startups and the basic concept of “finance anywhere” are seeing huge gains at the moment, and today one of the key companies building the infrastructure that powers services like these is announcing a major growth round of funding to double down on the opportunity. Like cloud computing.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak, which was founded in 2016, is an online marketplace that aims to bring transparency, security and access to financing to the used car market. My budget allowed me to buy a used car, but there was no infrastructure around it. We were built to solve emerging market problems,” García said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Flyte was originally developed inside of Lyft, where Union AI CEO and co-founder Ketan Umare developed some of the company’s earliest machine learning–based ETA and traffic models in 2016. It turns out to be an infrastructure problem.” “We got something running, but behind the scenes, it was a man behind the curtain.

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MAY 3, 2022

AccelByte CEO Junaili Lie , who previously led the backend engineering team at Epic Games, founded this startup in 2016. In 2018, Microsoft acquired PlayFab and Amazon acquired GameSparks to bolster their game infrastructure platform business. Amazon confirms that it has acquired GameSparks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

While the startup has been profitable since 2016, it wants to unlock the full potential of its headless CMS by iterating more quickly on its product. In addition to iterating on its CMS, Prismic manages the infrastructure for you. Prismic , a company building a content management system, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We will hire a team especially on the growth side, and technology experts so that we can build systems for scale because our plan is to become a pan-African infrastructure for long distance transportation,” said co-CEO, Sonia Kabra , who co-founded BuuPass with Wycliffe Omondi in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based ” While its website shows an active presence in 11 African countries, Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola , also known as GB, told TechCrunch the company is live in 20 African countries with an infrastructure reach in over 33 countries on the continent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Founded in 2016, New York-based Mantl has been described by some as “the Shopify of account opening.” . Our mission at the end of the day is to really expand the access to financial services by taking on the legacy infrastructure, which has really hindered access to digital banking.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The Fort Lee, New Jersey-based institution is also a technology infrastructure provider that powers lending and payments for many of the fintechs that top VCs are also backing. At the time of that 2016 raise, Cross River told us that it originated more than $2.4 Cross River Bank is not just any bank.

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MAY 17, 2023

billion for a majority stake in 2016. Lifeline Ventures has also backed unicorns such as open source enterprise infrastructure company Aiven , which hit a valuation of $3 billion last year. billion all-stock deal two years ago; and gaming giant Supercell , which Tencent doled out $8.6

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