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Entocycle grabs $5 million for its insect breeding technology

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In addition to contributing money, those sports professionals help startups with team-building advice and mentorship. While Entocycle has been around since 2016 , the team of 21 people will now try and commercialize its products.

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Senegalese logistics and delivery company PAPS raises $4.5M led by 4DX Ventures and Orange

TechCrunch

Bamba Lo founded PAPS in 2016 to provide end-to-end logistics solutions for businesses with offline and online operations. The company will use this pre-Series A round to strengthen its tech team, build out physical infrastructure to onboard more warehouses, hubs and fleets and extend its offering to more African companies.

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Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte

TechCrunch

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. But the Union AI platform isn’t simply building Flyte-as-a-service.

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Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties

TechCrunch

Altman, Hover’s founder and CEO, tells me that in 2016 the startup was making some $1 million in revenues. That gives a company like Hover, which has some 35 patents on its technology already secured and has a team building more innovations into the process, a potentially large horizon and set of options for how it might grow.

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May the Force Be With You: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Also, if you have not yet completed my 2016 planning survey, I would really like your input on how I can add more value to you and your organization in 2016. Next month, we turn our thoughts to vision and strategy to kick of the new year. Please submit your links here. Submissions due January 15th. Please click here. . ” -Yoda.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Honeycomb’s $50M Series D deck

TechCrunch

What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers. Investors, take notice.

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5 strategies for boosting endpoint management

CIO

Between June 2016 and December 2021, the FBI recorded over 240,000 national and international complaints about BEC attacks, which cumulatively resulted in losses of $43 billion. It’s helpful to take a Red Team/Blue Team approach, assigning a team of security analysts to break into a network while another team tries to defend it.

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