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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). The closure came just three years after it launched with the goal to build software for startups to navigate fundraising, hiring, acquisition deals and collaboration with their legal team.

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10 investors discuss the no-code and low-code landscape in Q1 2022

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No-code and low-code development suites have so far been used mostly by marketers and analysts. Initially, no-code/low-code was primarily a way for non-technical builders to create (sometimes gimmicky) applications,” said Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield. Raviraj Jain , partner, Lightspeed Ventures.

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Strava raises $110 million, touts growth rate of 2 million new users per month in 2020

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Already in 2020, Strava has seen significant growth. The company claims that it has added over 2 million new “athletes” (how Strava refers to its users) per month in 2020. The funding will be used to propel the development of new features, and expand the company’s reach to cover even more users.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

But with the advent of GPT-3 in 2020, LLMs exploded onto the scene, captivating the world’s attention and forever altering the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), and in the process, becoming an essential part of our everyday computing lives. We need to start with proof-of-concepts and small-scale focused learning projects.

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Improve Onboarding with User-Centered Design

Speaker: Dr. Kate Wolin, Founder, Circea

She will also review how a patient-centered design strategy can be used to evaluate and refine onboarding processes. Wednesday September 9th, 2020 at 9:30AM PDT, 12:30 PM EST, 4:30PM GMT In this webinar, you will learn: A model of health behavior change that can be applied to solution development.

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Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service

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Alloy Automation , a startup that was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort , announced today that it has closed $5 million across two rounds, the most recent of which brought $4 million to the company in October of 2020. Per the pair, Q4 2020 was good for Alloy. Why $4 million? Finally, let’s talk growth.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

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According to Carta data , data and analytics-focused Series C rounds since the start of 2020 have median values of $43.75 According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well. Image Credits: Weights & Biases. and the like.