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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. Although 2020 didn’t witness the series of mammoth deals in 2019 and didn’t reach the $2 billion mark, it proved to be a good year for acquisitions. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43 Briter Bridges pegged total 2020 VC for African startups at $1.31

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

TechCrunch

We asked survey respondents to assess a list of 16 technologies, from advanced analytics to quantum computing, and put each one into one of these four buckets. We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. ” The top technology there was quantum computing. AI/machine learning. Collaboration tools and software.

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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Top 20 ML/AI Influencers in 2020. Over the years, he has worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the AOL Search Analytics team, Director of Analytics at Juice Analytics, Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn, CEO and Co-founder of SkipFlag, and Head of AI Automation & Data Products at Workday, among various other roles.

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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Top 20 ML/AI Influencers in 2020. Over the years, he has worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the AOL Search Analytics team, Director of Analytics at Juice Analytics, Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn, CEO and Co-founder of SkipFlag, and Head of AI Automation & Data Products at Workday, among various other roles.

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Monetization Monitor: Software Usage Analytics 2020

Efficient usage data collection and analytics can open up significant possibilities for suppliers. Revenera’s 2020 Software Monetization and Pricing survey gathers input from leading software companies and provides you with key insights. Yet many software suppliers still struggle to get accurate insights into usage.

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Here’s how fast a few dozen startups grew in Q3 2020

TechCrunch

“Revenue for the first three quarters of 2020 is 11X our origination 2020 plan, and 18X versus the same period in 2019,” he said in an email. Bank digitization, O’Malley says, which has “been forced to happen rapidly and dramatically” in 2020. What’s driving growth?

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Starburst acquires data lake analytics accelerator Varada to challenge Snowflake

TechCrunch

Starburst , the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on data lake analytics. Varada last raised a $12 million Series A round led by MizMaa Ventures in 2020.

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

In this session, we address common pitfalls of building data lakes and show how AWS can help you manage data and analytics more efficiently. Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM BST Javier Ramirez will present: The typical steps for building a data lake. A live demo of lake formation. Navigating idle clusters and bottlenecks.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

Enterprises are pouring money into data management software – to the tune of $73 billion in 2020 – but are seeing very little return on their data investments.

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7 Questions Every App Team Should Ask

Which sophisticated analytics capabilities can give your application a competitive edge? In its 2020 Embedded BI Market Study, Dresner Advisory Services continues to identify the importance of embedded analytics in technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.