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AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2020, 54gene saw an opportunity to make additional revenue during the pandemic as it turned its lab capabilities and re-positioned itself to conduct COVID-19 testing, which spiked in Africa when the company closed its Series A round. African genomics startup 54gene raises $25M to expand precision medicine capabilities.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For example: Imagine you’ve just had a telehealth visit, and your healthcare provider thinks it might be time for a blood test. At the moment, the company collects samples and works with Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics and Sonora Quest to process those tests. there are about 14 billion lab tests ordered every year, per the CDC.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Qase , an Austin-based platform for managing software quality assurance testing and reporting, today announced that it raised $7.2 While there, he faced a niggling problem: he couldn’t find a test management system that wasn’t solely focused on manual, as opposed to automated, testing. Well… yes.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

To make changing this type of automated logic a more self-service process, Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer founded Taktile in 2020. While there, they found that many automated decisions were poorly designed, hardly ever tested properly and required a lot of engineering capacity — ultimately leading to guesswork.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Venture capital as an asset class has survived the pandemic’s stress test. Then we’ll hear from Eniac Ventures ’ Nihal Mehta , Freestyle’s Jenny Lefcourt , Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson and Contrary Capital’s Eric Tarczynski about what they saw in 2020 while writing a chunk of the checks that our data encompasses.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets. In Brazil alone, e-commerce sales grew 73.88% in 2020, but Toledo said there was much room for improvement. Instead, merchants in Latam have to tap into other organizations that have that data.”.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The company is targeting the public markets at a particularly heady time for new offerings, with investors embracing venture-backed IPOs throughout late 2020 and the start of 2021. million total paying users through the first nine months of 2020; the percent, then, of paying users to MAUs is not 2.4 million in the same period of 2020.

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JUNE 14, 2021

So she built an application to provide access to mental health tools for Spanish-speaking people and began testing it with a small group. By early 2020, with just three months of runway left, she pivoted to create an app with chatbot integration that wasn’t just limited to use via Facebook Messenger. Image Credits: Yana.

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JULY 26, 2021

Now that you have that COVID dog, Embark Veterinary wants to help him or her be in your life for a long time by offering DNA testing with the goal of curbing preventable diseases and increasing the lifespan of dogs by three years within the next decade. It can test for over 350 breeds and 200 genetic health risks, as well as physical traits.

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JUNE 28, 2021

That revenue was followed by advertising incomes and the Duolingo English Test (DET), which represented 17% and 10% of its top line in 2020. million in 2020, a 129% increase. And from 2019 to 2020, the company’s GAAP net losses expanded from $13.6 Its multi-part business model appears to be paying off. million to $15.8

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Usage-based subscriptions can be a way for SaaS companies to test the feasibility of UBP without needing to completely change their business model. Public cloud observability company New Relic introduced its consumption-based pricing model in July 2020. This figure is up significantly compared to 34% in 2020 and 30% in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Among them is a South Korean company called HME Square, which uses photoacoustics to test glucose levels noninvasively. HME Square was founded in 2020 […] Many glucose-monitoring device makers worldwide are pursuing needle-free approaches to make this painful process more manageable.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. The seed round will be used to launch a portable home health lab, Bisu Body Coach, which provides personalized nutrition and lifestyle advice through easy, accurate urine and saliva testing.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Innovate Shane McDaniel, CIO for the City of Seguin, Texas, says his city has grown by about 35% since the 2020 census. Deliver value from generative AI As organizations move from experimenting and testing generative AI use cases , theyre looking for gen AI to deliver real business value.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

According to Nestlé’s press release, Freshly is now shipping more than 1 million meals per week across 48 states, with forecasted sales of $430 million for 2020. If anything, this sounds even more appealing now, as so many of us are spending most of our time at home, doing our best to cook for ourselves.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For Templates , choose Production or Dev/test. On the Connection tab, go to the Advanced sub-tab, and in the Others field, add the line OPT_LOCAL_INFILE=1 and start a new query tab after testing the connection. You can now test the application by asking different questions, as shown in the following screenshot.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Putting serverless to the test In 2020, we made an architecture decision to leverage serverless architecture for implementing a fraud detection use case. This leads to predictable delays when the component needs to be executed again, as resources get reallocated.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

There are clearly a lot of investors interested in climate tech, and most are generalists just testing the waters. That pattern tracks well with data from PwC, which found that 2,700 unique investors had backed 1,200 startups in its State of Climate Tech 2020 report covering the 2013-2019 period.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Langoo, Riiid’s partner in Japan, offers Riiid Tutor, formerly known as Santa, a test prep app for the English-language proficiency test TOEIC in the region. billion in 2020, increasing 22.4% Riiid has been actively penetrating the global market since 2020 after it opened the U.S. Riiid claims that more than 2.5

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MARCH 14, 2025

Case in point , in 2020, Russian cybercriminals tried to bribe a Tesla employee with $1 million to install ransomware in the companys systems. Conduct routine and frequent security tests simulating phishing attacks and malicious links so that employees know what to avoid. What do human firewalls bring to the company table?

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JULY 13, 2022

Kindly His’ at home semen test kit. Kindly wants to make it accessible to more people, with a combination of at-home diagnostic tests (including semen tests and tests for polycystic ovary syndrome), telehealth consultations and supplements. Kindly has two product lines, KindlyHis and KindlyHers.

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JUNE 5, 2022

You only have to look at how fast well-funded startups like Joby Aviation, Wisk Aero and Lillium are building and testing electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft. However, South Korea, which lacks the venture capital, entrepreneurial ecosystem and aerospace legacy of the U.S., trillion ($1.4

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MARCH 2, 2022

NeuraLegion , a startup that focuses on dynamic application security testing and identifying business logic issues, today announced that it has changed its name to Bright Security. In addition, the company also said that it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners. By the time the team raised its $4.7

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JULY 27, 2021

The kit includes an at-home test that quantitatively measures two hormones, informing a woman — and her doctor — of her fertile days and confirming ovulation. Users will take a urine test, scan the results with their phone’s camera and receive actionable steps, including confirmation that the person ovulated and the best days for conception.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

The deal comes a year after the two companies struck a partnership to test autonomous delivery in Santa Monica, California using Motional’s autonomous vehicles. Uber sold the unit off to Aurora in 2020 as part of a complex deal that included handing over its equity in ATG and investing $400 million into the AV tech startup.

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JUNE 2, 2022

We covered its $100 million Series C round in November 2020. In 2020, Carbon Health developed both pop-up clinics and at-home test kits. According to growth metrics reported when it raised capital last year, Carbon Health’s patient volume increased 129% between its Series D and its Series C raise in November 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Chaos engineering was originally developed at large companies to help them pressure test systems in production. Over time, startups and open source projects have made it more accessible, but for the most part it is still in the realm of SREs (site reliability engineers) testing production systems. The startup has raised a total of $7.8

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JULY 29, 2021

Let’s talk about Latin American venture capital data, dig into which countries are rising stars in the region, learn how quickly Latin American startups have to go cross-border, and explore how quickly capital is recycling in the ecosystem – always a key test for startup-market longevity. A venture capital wave. billion across 526 deals.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Signadot , a startup that aims to simplify the development process for microservice-based applications by making it easier for developers to test their code, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed funding round. The company also today announced that its service is now available as a public beta. ” Image Credits: Signadot.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company raised $27 million in Series A funding in a round, led by Khosla Ventures and including First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom — all companies involved in Loyal’s $11 million seed round raised in 2020, as well as a group of angel investors.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Refurbed is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics that are tested and renewed. The company claims that in 2020, it grew by 3x and reached more than €100 million in GMV. These then tend to be 40% cheaper than new, and come with a 12-month warranty.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It claims to have grown by 10x in the number of active users throughout the 2020/21 academic year. ” Its competitors include offline tutoring centers as well as Noon Academy (a Saudi-based social learning platform); EdKasa (a Pakistan-based test prep app); and Ashtar (an Egypt-based learning app).

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