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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. 2021 also largely lacked the kind of blockbuster crashes we saw last year, courtesy of names like Quibi and Essential. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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

TechCrunch

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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Green Software Foundation: On a mission to decarbonize software

CIO

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. These emissions include both the energy that physical hardware consumes to run software programs and those associated with manufacturing the hardware itself. How do we even know it’s green?

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

TechCrunch

To date, twine’s events customers have included names like Microsoft, Amazon, Forrester, and others, and the service is on track to do $1 million in bookings in 2021, the company says. 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.

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Is this the year that we get our dream back channeling platform?

TechCrunch

Some investors still scoff at the idea that their portfolio companies may be asked to review what it’s like to work with them; similarly, founders are surprised when stories, not Cultureamp surveys, are where honest feedback truly lives. The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. RIP Y Combinator.

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

TechCrunch

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. How is your team structured?

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Cloudera Data Engineering 2021 Year End Review

Cloudera

New in 2021. Figure 2 – CDE product launch highlights in 2021. Early on in 2021 we expanded our APIs to support pipelines using a new job type — Airflow. Besides the CDE Airflow operator, we introduced a CDW operator that allows users to execute ETL jobs on Hive within an autoscaling virtual warehouse.