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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The benefits of honing technical skills go far beyond the Information Technology industry. Strong tech skills are essential in today’s changing world, and if your employees consistently and proactively enhance their IT skills, you will help them improve both personally and professionally. Yes, it may feel overwhelming.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

She told TechCrunch that last year’s run of 23 pre-seed rounds (10 of which were $150,000+ deals) per Briter Bridges data , was due to the confidence investors had in the market, especially fintech. Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed. million; Nigerian automotive tech startup Autochek Africa , which raised $3.4

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LinkSquares benefits from the legal tech boom with a fresh $100M

TechCrunch

” Founded in 2015, LinkSquares was inspired by Sunak’s and Chris Combs’ work with contracts and due diligence over the course of a company acquisition. The idea to review each contract, read the provision related to data transfer, and store the answer seemed straightforward — at first. ”

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Tiger Global backs Nacelle with $50M for its e-commerce infrastructure

TechCrunch

LA-based Nacelle is one of the e-commerce infrastructure companies continuing to attract investor attention, and at a speedy clip, too. million seed round in 2020. The technology for online shopping is not up to snuff — when you click on something, everything has to reload compared to an app like Instagram.”.

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Travel technology platform Spotnana launches with $41M

TechCrunch

The Bay Area company’s investment includes a $34 million Series A, co-led by ICONIQ and Madrona Venture Group with participation from Decibel and Mubadala Capital, and a previous undisclosed $7 million seed round from 2020, also from ICONIQ and Madrona and including 8VC and Global Founders Capital. Travel is a $1.4

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Orsini notes that it has never been more important for enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT infrastructure.

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Vesta closes on $30M in an a16z-led Series A to build a new kind of mortgage infrastructure

TechCrunch

While down from the previous year, which saw a big jump in refinancings and new home purchases due to historically low interest rates, that’s still a lot of loans. Existing backers Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raised since its November 2020 inception to $35 million.