TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After a launch on Product Hunt in 2019 offering “complex automation made easy, and with no code,” Bryant Chou, a founder at WebFlow, put money into the company. Bain had contacted the startup then, stayed in touch, and later did due diligence on it by talking about Alloy with e-commerce startups in its own portfolio.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The app sits at the confluence of two trends: An increased interest in outdoor recreation and travel, and an explosion in consumer subscription software (CSS). The Dyrt launched its premium offering in 2019, The Dyrt PRO, in time to take advantage of the rising number of Americans making the great outdoors part of their lifestyle.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

This morning Webflow , a software company that helps businesses build no-code websites, announced that it has raised a $140 million Series B. The round, led by returning investors Accel and Silversmith, comes after the startup raised $72 million in an August, 2019 Series A. The new funding values Webflow at more than $2.1

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development. “It

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This morning Ally.io , a software startup with a focus on the OKR (objectives and key results, in case you’ve somehow avoided being exposed) goal-setting technique, announced that it has closed $50 million in new capital. Ally raised an $8 million Series A in August, 2019 and a $15 million Series B in October of the same year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Sarah writes that the social media giant is seeing a spike in one-star reviews, which include calling for its removal. In essence, Auto-GPT uses the versatility of OpenAI’s latest AI models to interact with software and services online, allowing it to “autonomously” perform tasks like X and Y. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The option to see how the same prompt would result in results si de by si de using different mo de ls is very helpful when you are trying to integrate AI into your own software. These edits are applied directly in the editor, and you can quickly review them in the full context of the surrounding code.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Hunter Ng conducted research based on nearly 270,000 reviews from the “Interviews” section of the popular recruiting platform Glassdoor. Specialized positions in IT, such as AI engineers, data scientists, or software developers, require unique skills. Why is it so hard to find a job?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

billion in July 2019, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. based firm — the name of which TechCrunch could not ascertain — for an acquisition, and is conducting due diligence to buy Indian physical coaching institute Aakash , the people said, requesting anonymity as talks are private.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The time when Hardvard Business Review posted the Data Scientist to be the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” is more than a decade ago [1]. In 2019 alone the Data Scientist job postings on Indeed rose by 256% [2]. Since 2007 DevOps has been a massively influential methodology in software development. Why is that?

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

In aggregate across 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2023, the data from these questions shows that legacy search engines that have not significantly advanced in the last five years have struggled to keep up with the increasing volume and variety of organizational data. The combination of keyword and vector search (a.k.a.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When you shop for a holiday gift, you probably read at least one review. Garner Health’s bet is when you look for a doctor, you’ll want to do the same thing — but you’ll find that existing reviews aren’t enough to go on. . Garner Health, founded in 2019, is a service designed to help people sort through doctors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

In 2019, Marvin Coleby, Tina Nyamache and Eugene Mutai set out to create a blockchain solution that would make it easier for people to buy and sell shares in pre-IPO companies in Africa. When Raise launched in 2019, it was in private beta and was backed by Binance Labs, the sole investor in its pre-seed round.

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The Crazy Programmer

JUNE 21, 2022

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts a 22% growth in employment rate for software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers from 2019 to 2029 — which exceeds, by the 4% average for all employers. Software development as a skill is lucrative , regardless of if you have a software development degree or not.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to access resources that would otherwise be unavailable to them as well as execute code, such as remote procedure call (RPC) functions. Microsoft’s advisory also includes several mitigation steps for securing certificate templates which we highly recommend reviewing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

billion of invested capital, continuing a downward trend for both metrics and representing the lowest for both since Q4 2019.” However, investors are also being more thorough in their due diligence than in previous years, and not just because of Theranos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company’s impressive valuation comes after its most recent 2019 Series E in which it raised $268 million on a 2.75 Company co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij believes the increase is due to his company’s progress adding functionality to the platform. CNBC broke the story earlier today. billion in under 18 months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

New York-based Latch sells “LatchOS,” a hardware and software system that works in buildings where access and amenities matter. The company has raised a number of private rounds, including a $126 million deal in August of 2019 that valued the company at $454.3 from 2019 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But Playfair transitioned into more of a pre-seed firm with its second fund announced in 2019 , a focus that it’s maintaining for its new £57 million ($70 million) third fund, which it’s announcing today. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Since Treepz, formerly Plentywaka, was founded in 2019 in Lagos, the startup has expanded west into Ghana and east into Uganda. You’re seeing investors make a lot more time for due diligence. . “We can’t continue to complain about the downturn. I’d say it’s helping us become sturdier.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Some other examples of C2V’s portfolio companies includes a robotics startup for construction and software companies for car washes, laundromats and dry cleaning. “We C2V’s Fund 1, which closed at the end of 2019, has a current IRR of more than 50% and two exits. So far, this approach is working out for the firm.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

. “The Descope platform helps developers add authentication, user management and authorization capabilities to their business-to-consumer and business-to-business apps with just a few lines of code,” Markovich told TechCrunch in an email interview. Markovich says that it came down to timing. So why launch Descope now? .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

They eventually left Peixe Urbano and started Tuna in 2019 to make their own payment product which enables merchants to use A/B testing of credit card processors and anti-fraud providers to optimize their payments processing with one integration and a no-code interface. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Its software also provides automation to balance workflow and steer customer success teams to the tasks with the right customers so that they are engaging at the correct time. million in September 2019. Before the firm met Vitally, it was hearing “rave reviews” from its customers, Ulevitch said. million, which includes $1.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Wish falls into the same bucket , though it did hit some supply-chain and delivery issues due to the pandemic, so you could argue it either way. Keep in mind, however, that while we have seen some recent stability in the underlying environment, headwinds due to COVID remains particularly to net new bookings. Call it a double-boost.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Haus launched in 2019 as an answer to a generation’s craving for a more transparent alcohol brand, raising millions in venture funding from angels such as Casey Neistat, Away co-founder Jen Rubio and funds including Homebrew, Haystack Ventures, Coatue, Shrug Capital and Worklife Ventures.

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The Crazy Programmer

MAY 9, 2023

In this article, I will be reviewing one such web scraping API that comes with great features and can be really helpful for developers in their web scraping projects. ScrapingBee was founded in the year 2019 by Kevin Sahin and Pierre de Wulf. It provides various other awesome features that are explained below.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

These near-invisible bits of code are typically embedded in web pages to share information about users’ activity, often for analytics. Cerebral said these trackers inadvertently collected sensitive user data since it began operating in October 2019. In its disclosure to the U.S.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 6, 2019

TOKYO—In the deepest, darkest recesses of all computer-powered devices, from your phone to your laptop to your smart thermostat to even your car, lies one of their most important software components: the bootloader. . READ MORE FROM PACSEC 2019. The IOActive team found 13 zero-day vulnerabilities in U-Boot alone. Have a Tesla Model 3?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

However, due to RBI being a relatively new model, publicly available data is limited. Beyond B2B SaaS and impact investing, many other verticals are adopting the model as well, including e-commerce/D2C, consumer software, food and beverage, and more. based revenue-based investing firms. This figure of $592.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports raised its initial seed round in 2019 after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch with a mission to innovate the freight forwarding industry by helping companies — with an emphasis on SMEs — improve the import process. Nowports raises $5.3 Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

They left Atlassian in 2019 and started LaunchNotes to fulfill that goal. This is the first of its kind and we believe product success will grow into a large and exciting new software category,” he said. Davis actually founded the company in 2019 before bringing in Brereton shortly after. The approach seems to be working.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Fingercheck , $115M, human resources: Small business payroll and human resource software company Fingercheck raised a $115 million growth investment led by Edison Partners. DoorLoop , $100M, property management: Miami-based DoorLoop, a property management software company, raised a $100 million Series B funding led by JMI Equity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Druva , a software company that sells cloud data backup services, announced today that it has closed a $147 million round of capital. Druva last raised a $130 million round led by Viking in mid-2019 at around a $1 billion valuation. This is yet another growth round for a late-stage, enterprise-facing software company.

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