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AccelByte, a backend services platform for game developers, raises $60M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

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AccelByte CEO Junaili Lie , who previously led the backend engineering team at Epic Games, founded this startup in 2016. The Seattle-headquartered startup will use the money to enhance the backend platform for game creators and support the continued development of the tools to operate AAA-quality live service games at scale.

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Tech companies: Stop conflating privilege with potential

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The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. More posts by this contributor. 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech. Are adaptable.

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A Strategic Bridge Between Africa And Europe: Tunisia’s Role In The Innovation Ecosystem 

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Startup Act (2016) & Startup Act 2.0: He is recognized among the leading international experts in open innovation and has wide experience in setting up and managing open innovation projects venture clients, venture builders, intrapreneurship, CVCs with large multinational companies, as well as advising and training on this subject.

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Cross River Bank goes from tiny to mighty, with a $3B+ valuation and a crypto-first strategy

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Private equity firm Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz co-led the financing, which also included participation from funds and accounts advised by T. If we want to get technical, the money was actually raised by CRB Group, the bank’s parent company.). At the time of that 2016 raise, Cross River told us that it originated more than $2.4

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SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory

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As part of the investment, Lydia Jett, founding partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Andela’s board. Andela evaluates technical and soft skills of engineers and matches them with the teams that most closely fit. Its last valuation of $700 million came when the company raised a $100 million Series D in 2019.

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Rethinking the IT talent pipeline

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Amanda Merola had zero technical background when she came to The Hartford in 2015, despite a natural interest in computers and a proclivity for problem-solving. You used to be able to buy people or rely on the education system to pull people through so there was a ready supply of trained technical people.

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Cushman & Wakefield builds a foundation for enterprise-wide AI

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It’s also important to start small, she advises. AI balancing act Cushman & Wakefield began its three-year cloud journey in 2016, just as it merged with two other large commercial real estate firms that ran their own data centers. I’m not unlike a lot of CIO peers. We’re in a balancing act,” she says.