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Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

TechCrunch

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. In tight economies, organizations feel the pressure to shift software development efforts to initiatives that’ll move the needle for business.

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Ex-Plaid employees raise $30M for Stytch, an API-first passwordless authentication platform

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One such company, Stytch , just raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding as it launches out of beta with its API-first passwordless authentication platform. Lamb says that as she and McGinley-Stempel worked together at Plaid on user authentication, they realized how frustrating it is to build sign-up and login flows. “In

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

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After ProgrammableWeb, I spent five years on the provider side in developer marketing roles. I hope the book helps anyone who wants to reach developers directly in an authentic way. You mentioned reaching “the right developers.” The book is a compilation of the philosophy I learned and created along the way.

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

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InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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Paragon wants to be the Plaid of SaaS apps

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Companies can use the platform to build SaaS integrations into their products that are then provided to their end users, with features such as fully managed authentication and prebuilt integration interfaces. When Ishmael and I started Paragon, we sought to solve a never-ending problem we’d experienced firsthand as software developers.”

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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

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Whats in is self-funding AI-led business reinvention by slashing technology, data, and process debt and adopting AIOps and AI-enabled software development, says Amit Bajaj, North America president of TCS. User feedback will be collected and summarized by AI to inform the next round of improvements, completing the virtuous cycle.

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Uiflow secures cash and Freshworks partnership to bolster its app dev platform

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While working at software developer Pegasystems, Eun says he saw the importance of lowering the barrier of entry to app development. “[The] software backlog for every company is also getting longer by the day due to pandemic and skill shortage. . Image Credits: Uiflow.