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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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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

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The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Gigi Levy-Weiss, NFX. Brayton Williams, Boost VC. Greg Castle, Anorak Ventures.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

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Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. Hence, JavaScript will remain one of the hottest tech skills in 2020 and it is unlikely that it will go off the grid in the near future.

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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

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Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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Healthie lands $16.5M to build the Stripe for virtual patient care

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The idea of starting Healthie , a software company meant to help healthcare companies and startups handle back-office operations, came to founder Erica Jain after witnessing her parents struggle with weight loss but lack of access to a comprehensive care team. million and will use this round’s funds to continue developing their software.

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Wiz unveils new security tool to protect code in development pipeline

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Wiz started out by creating an agentless tool to scan across the range of cloud tooling from virtual machines to containers to serverless, says Raaz Herzberg, Wiz’s head of product. The way it works is that admins can define the security policy they want to apply to the code in the pipeline. No, that is not a typo.).

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Twine raises $3.3M to add networking features to virtual events

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Coburn, previously CEO of DoubleDutch, had been under a non-compete with its acquirer until December 2020, which is one reason why he didn’t first attempt a return to the events space. So the company shifted its focus to the familiar events space, with a specific focus on online events which grew in popularity due to the pandemic.