TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

No further due diligence? As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. “Our approach? This is our data set, let’s see if we can put money into them,” he said. No problem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

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. million; Nigerian automotive tech startup Autochek Africa , which raised $3.4 ”

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. The latest startup in the space to get a big chunk of cash is Beta Technologies, maker of electric vertical take-off and landing planes. billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Byteboard , a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. A group of experienced engineers review and rate the interviews. Image Credits: Byteboard.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. But it’s also one of the more expensive places to start a business, due to its high cost of living, salary expectations and relatively small labor market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. Greg Castle, Anorak Ventures. “We believe VR is still the largest long-term opportunity of the two.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In other words, it provides software to help contractors get the best price for the materials they use in construction projects so they save a lot more money, move faster and have less waste. “The truth is construction was considered an unsexy market by people building tech companies for far too long. times over the past year.

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CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tech isn’t as collegial as it used to be. VCs want to fund the newest tech mafia startups before banks do , top MBA programs want laid off workers to join so badly that they’re waiving standardized test score requirements , and the tech companies that are in a position to hire really want you to know it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Tech investors must make sure that Israel is part of their portfolio.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

So much software is dedicated to helping businesses improve interactions online, whether it be aimed at sales, marketing or customer service. Enter Rillavoice , a new startup with a niche focus: building speech analytics software for field sales teams that sell in person as opposed to via Zoom or over the phone.

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

In its 10 year history, Playfair has invested in around 100 companies, including well-established unicorns such as Stripe, and Mapillary , a startup that exited to Facebook back in 2020. ” It wasn’t that long ago when autonomous automobile technology was all the rage , dominating just about every trade show and tech conference.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Yet after onboarding at HR SaaS provider Gusto in a customer experience (CX) role, exposure to coding sparked McGrath’s interest in shifting professional tracks.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 28, 2021

Tooling supports and encourages code review of the contribution before accepting the request. Pull requests have become widely used in software development, but critics are concerned by the addition of integration friction which can prevent continuous integration.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The service, which was founded in 2020, integrates with over 100 data sources , covering all the standard B2B SaaS tools from Airtable to Shopify and Zendesk, as well as database services like Google’s BigQuery. . “We’re taking the best of breed open-source software. million seed funding round led by La Famiglia VC.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Is coding the only thing they do all day? And no, they do not code all day long. Busting the myth that developers spend the better part of their day coding, 52% of student developers said that they prefer to code for a maximum of 3 hours per day. . When not coding, devs swear by their walks as a way to unwind.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Simultaneously, we foresee the rise of vertical integration plays and those pursuing buy and build strategies for markets in need of technology streamlining. Finally, we see the beginning of the end for the 2020-2021 cohort of overfunded growth companies. This is primarily due to the costs of acquiring small-business customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

I’ve been writing about Human Interest since March 2020, covering each of its funding rounds since then ( here , here and here ), and following its impressive growth. Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Australia-based startup, which just raised $4 million, has built a platform that offers drag and drop tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and mobile apps, and the best part is businesses don’t need to know any code to engage with it. The Australian tech scene is driving innovation globally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Companies are hitting a considerable inflection point when it comes to how they assemble and manage their software tech stack. But the hard truth is that many of those very companies face a “pay-the-price” moment as the cost of their decisions and actions over the past 18 to 24 months come due. The SaaS tsunami.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

HackerEarth has just announced the addition of full-stack assessments to help recruiters efficiently evaluate the coding skills of full-stack developers. According to the 2020 HackerEarth Developer Survey , more developers — over 35% — have expertise in full-stack development than in any other category. Auto-evaluation for frontend .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is mostly due to the clearly maturing startup scene in the region, with proven successes such as Nubank, Cornershop, Gympass and Loggi helping to bolster LatAm’s credibility. Similarly, most businesses are underserved by modern software solutions,” Nyatta explained. Latin America saw a total of $6.2

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. “This new funding will … [reduce our] unit economics [to make] translation more affordable for all businesses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Formerly GC of a venture-backed healthcare services company, he works with emerging companies across software, life sciences, healthcare, consumer products and data science. Early in the pandemic, investors at a venture-backed technology company we worked with helped the business manage expenses but initially refused to write checks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Growth cheat code: Use fractional hiring to stay on plan when cutting costs. As winter winds begin to blow, major tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Lyft have each instituted hiring freezes. In 2020, the U.S. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce. Founded by Awodele in 2020, MyTechBestFriend (MTBF) launched to public acclaim, especially within the Black tech community.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

According to Reitz, the effects of technology on people must also always be top of mind. While the BPM team reduced 1,600 legacy systems to 340, the IT team created a technological standard with, for instance, the migration of 300 servers holding over 700TB of data to Microsoft Azure. Be open and courageous,” he says.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Kaiko Systems, which Fussek founded in 2020 with Eddy del Valle, the former CTO of freight-forwarding unicorn Sennder , provides a smartphone-based tool for front-line workers and inspectors to collect operational data onboard. “Shipping companies finally made their long-overdue investment in digitization,” said Fussek.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Many of the world’s organizations shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The raise also comes after a massive year of growth for Deel, which says it saw a “20x” increase in revenue in 2020 with over 1,800 business clients. It’s also a big deal because it propels Deel, a 3 year-old company, to unicorn status with a $1.25

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. CIOs play a crucial role by providing opportunities for skill associates to participate in cross-functional learning, where people develop a common way of talking about the technology.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. They’re also becoming huge carbon hogs, consuming roughly 40% of all energy used on the planet.

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