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 22, 2022

The $25 million fund bases all of its investments off of one key metric that AngelList has been tracking for years: a startup’s ability to hire. No further due diligence? Money certainly doesn’t solve all woes — the top reason startups fail today is still due to failure to raise new capital. Our approach?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Mali-born Fatima Dicko founded Los Angeles-based Sugar in March 2020. As people began quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dicko saw an opportunity to help make it easier for people living in apartments and residential communities to “engage with one another in a safe and efficient way.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Getting inside the mind of customers is a challenge as behaviors and demands shift, but Clootrack believes it has cracked the code in helping brands figure out how to do that. He had looked at one of Abdulla’s companies for investment, but had decided against it due to his firm being a Series A investor. CEO Babu Sivadasan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Henry has created an online computer science school that trains software developers from low-income backgrounds to understand technical skills and get employed. which focuses on software developer skills. Henry is also focused on helping more women get into the field of software development. The Henry team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

ReCharge , a provider of subscription management software for e-commerce, announced today that it has raised $227 million in a Series B growth round at a $2.1 Specifically, ReCharge’s cloud-based software is designed to give e-commerce merchants a way to offer and manage subscriptions for physical products. billion valuation. .

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Honeycomb

APRIL 23, 2025

Get your free copy of Charity’s Cost Crisis in Metrics Tooling whitepaper. All of the observability companies founded pre-2020 (except for Honeycomb and, it seems, New Relic?) Metrics-heavy shops are used to blaming custom metrics for their cost spikes, and for good reason. which has made them less differentiated.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Divvy’s growth rate tells us that the company did not sell due to performance weakness. Luckily for us, Bill.com released a deck that provides a number of financial metrics relating to its purchase of Divvy. It also lets us know that the company did no more than $4 million or so in March 2020 revenue.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

I’m writing this from a newly locked-down chilly California; reflecting on 2020 and all that it has taught us. For businesses, 2020’s learnings have mostly centered around ‘ our people ’. I think they’d do well for an abridged guide to 2020, and what they’ve taught me about tech hiring. We’ve cared more than we ever did in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Panorama declined to reveal at what valuation the Series C was raised, nor did it provide any specific financial growth metrics. Just what does Panorama do exactly?

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The cloud-native market has seen the introduction of a range of open source DevOps tools — tools that combine software development and IT operations — built to address very specific use cases. The platform handles app management, security and more, providing an interface that abstracts away the underlying infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

It’s the company’s first explicit foray into sales automation software, a market that — according to Verified Market Research — could grow to $7.3 A separate metric, the sentiment score, measures “positive” and “negative” words and phrases used in meetings. billion in size by 2028.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Microsoft patched 112 CVEs in the November 2020 Patch Tuesday release, including 17 CVEs rated as critical. CVE-2020-17087 | Windows Kernel Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. CVE-2020-17087 was used to escape Google Chrome’s sandbox in order to elevate privileges on the exploited system.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. That’s led companies to boost spending on supply chain software in recent months.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Non-standardized, subjective evaluations due to lack of preparation time: From our conversations with multiple hiring managers and recruiters, we realized that ‘prep time’ is a misnomer. We believe all coding interviews should be OBJECTIVE and SKILL-BASED. FaceCode is like noise cancellation for your coding interviews.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In a 2019 survey , Harvard Business Review found that 75% of managers were dissatisfied with their employer’s learning and development (L&D) function and only 12% of employees applied new skills learned in L&D programs to do their jobs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Ingrid reports Houston said the cuts are due to slowing growth and “the era of AI.” Legacy learns to embrace AI : Jagmeet takes a deep dive into how legacy financial software giant Intuit decided to put out the welcome mat for artificial intelligence instead of closing the door and turning the deadbolt. Manish has more. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said. Red Hat Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The CTO can always boast how many tickets their team has closed and the release dates they’ve met, but a growth manager’s key performance metrics may not manifest for weeks — or months. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Image Credits: George Frey/Bloomberg / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It is too early to discuss growth metrics, due to the company not yet having paying customers, but there will be some paid plans down the road, he said. Slides have been around for over 30 years, and now everyone has their own screen. Don’t send VC a cold deck ever again: Start sending video pitches.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

billion in 2018 to under $28 billion in 2020 as Western brands wrestled with pandemic-related border restrictions. “Even though brands were marking up their retail price at 75% to 80% margins, they were still making only around 8% to 10% profits and losing money due to high inventory wastage or going out of stock.

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OverOps

OCTOBER 14, 2018

He’s going to be talking about code quality in open source projects and identifying problems in the code. Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved.

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Tenable

MAY 20, 2024

Tenable Research discovered a critical vulnerability dubbed Linguistic Lumberjack (CVE-2024-4323) within Fluent Bit’s built-in HTTP server that could potentially allow for denial of service, information disclosure, or remote code execution. For example, HTTP endpoints exist to indicate service uptime, plugin metrics, health checks, etc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

has grown so substantially that, in recent years, Canada has ranked third globally in its rate of intact forest loss — behind only Russia and Brazil — mostly due to logging, the NRDC said. Use code “TCARTICLE at checkout to get 20% off tickets right here. Demand from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report also pinpoints other metrics such as fixed and mobile broadband connections and mobile cellular network coverage. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. From 2020 to 2021, it grew 2x faster than global startup funding, it said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Former Businessolver executive Brian Cosgray and former ConnectYourCare founder Brian Strom started the company in 2020. And, with anything involving the tax code, administration of these types of benefits can get complicated. I went looking for a better alternative and couldn’t find one.”. Image Credits: Elevate.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required. billion valuation for its code analytics suite for digital customer experiences.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Global losses from ad fraud totaled $35 billion in 2020 alone. And beyond the wasted spend, invalid traffic can inflate metrics, leading brands to misidentify — and misunderstand — customer segments. The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Coderhouse , founded in 2014 by Christian Patiño, is a platform for LatAm professionals to take live, online cohort-based courses in topics such as data, coding, design and marketing. The response to this then became boot camps, which he deems are “way more effective” but inaccessible due to low acceptance rates and high costs.

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Github

MAY 6, 2020

In our findings, we offer insights for software developers and company leaders, and suggest implications for leading newly distributed teams through uncertainty. When we compare the first three months of 2020 to the same time period in 2019: Developer activity remains largely consistent or increased compared to last year. Key findings.

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Planbox

APRIL 27, 2021

They will help their organisations excel in technology innovation, make big bets on new business models, new talent, and new ways of working, and be more adaptive and resilient to the disruptive forces that will characterise the 2020s.” – Forrester blogs, Seize The Moment To Become A Future Fit Tech Leader , Phil Brunkard, February 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

LinkSquares in April landed $100 million for its AI-powered contract analysis platform, while ContractPodAi, a close competitor, has raised tens of millions to digitize contract reviews. A relatively new entrant in the space is Terzo , which was co-founded by Brandon Card, Al Giocondi and Pradeep Thangavel in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Perhaps one of the strongest examples of software “eating the world,” as a prominent VC once put it, is the growth of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry. billion in 2020. SaaS has become the vector of digitization for large companies because all of their business lines are using this type of software.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2020, the startup saw its number of customers grow by more than 70%, and it now has more than 11,000 users in Brazil and Mexico. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Kovi — as did many other companies — at first saw its business slow. Image Credits: Kovi. We basically built an insurance company from scratch,” Neto said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

January 2020 seems like a long time ago: Billie Eilish swept the Grammy Awards, Tesla’s market cap made it America’s most valuable car company, and Visa announced plans to purchase Plaid for $5.3 Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. His conclusions?

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction. ” Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction. Walter Thompson.

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