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HYCU locks down additional funding to grow its cloud data protection business

TechCrunch

In 2018, Taylor was appointed CEO of HYCU (pronounced “haiku”), which is based in Boston — where Comtrade Software has a fourth outpost. Specifically, HYCU sells products — most of them self-serve — for cloud migration, security credential management, disaster recovery, and backup and recovery.

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OwnBackup reels in $240M Series E on $3.35B valuation, up from $1.4B in January

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That’s a lot of capital, but OwnBackup CEO Sam Gutmann says that as the Salesforce ecosystem has grown, which includes not only Salesforce itself, but companies like Veeva and nCino, business has been booming, growing 100% year-over-year since 2018.

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Why regulators love Nuro’s self-driving delivery vehicles

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government in 2018 for a minor exemption from rules requiring a rearview mirror, backup camera and a windshield, Nuro might have assumed the process wouldn’t be very arduous. They built an AV that spared no room in the narrow chassis for a driver’s seat, and had no need for an accelerator, windshield or brake pedals.

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Hyundai invests in teleoperations startup Ottopia as part of $9M round

TechCrunch

” That “human in the loop” conclusion led Rosenzweig to found teleoperations startup Ottopia in 2018. A human must be in the loop or present in some way for autonomous mobility to exist, even in 10 or probably 20 years from now.”

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Zola Electric closes $90M funding round to scale technology and enter new markets

TechCrunch

Lenihan shares his view on how the Infinity product is the answer for people in emerging markets where lack of power has resulted in the installation of millions of backup solutions like diesel generations and lead-acid batteries — solutions that can are unreliable and can be difficult to use and manage. ” More than 1.5

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Yotascale raises a $13M Series B to help companies track and manage their cloud spends

TechCrunch

That effort led him to the perspective that current solutions aimed at understanding cloud spend were insufficient and led to data being used against infrastructure teams in arguments for lower spend when it wasn’t a good idea (cutting backup expenses, for example). And thus more capital was required.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

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If you want to channel those feelings into getting safer in 2018, follow these seven steps, garnered from how-tos we’ve published this year, to better secure your digital life. As a result, you might be feeling frustrated, vulnerable, even angry—not exactly a positive way to ring in the new year. Step 1: Use two-factor authentication.