TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. The company is also launching an alpha version of a commercial product today. He points out that his VP of Engineering is a woman.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

million onto its existing seed funding round, bringing total investment into the company to $6.75 The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Exchange regularly covers companies as they approach and crest the $100 million revenue mark. Today we’re digging into a company that is a little bit bigger than that. Namely Databricks , a data analytics company that was most recently valued at around $6.2 How do they find that information?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Remote workforces have come into their own in the last several years, with companies ever more willing to tap into talent wherever it happens to be, and a vast array of low-friction tools being built to make those distributed teams work just as effectively as if they were all in the same physical space. “We only see this accelerating.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Historically, systems for providing such data are inefficient and clunky, a problem Pinwheel’s cofounders recognized when they were working on a startup that helped companies provide pre-tax benefits to their employees. . Pinwheel has hired a number of its employees from $13.4 Its platform executes over 4.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

And Remote is also getting cosier with other parts of the HR chain of services: applicant tracking system Greenhouse is now integrating with it to help with the onboarding process for new hires. A lot of new hires, as well as existing employees who are possibly not from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. Masar, who has several startups under his belt, previously was the VP of engineering at Represent.com, an apparel e-commerce merchant. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The company saw 11x revenue growth last quarter and claims neobank Current and mobile payment service Square Cash as clients. Michael Gilroy of Coatue led a $20 million Series A round into the company. He said that the company has doubled down particularly on direct-deposit switching as a gateway to the rest of its API offerings.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

If a company’s combined growth and profit rates add up to more than 40%, it’s a good bet. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%. And if you have ever discussed an idea for starting a company with a friend, think about working on a pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. 54gene CEO steps down as the company looks to cut more jobs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Companies accumulate a lot of sensitive data and store secrets, such as API tokens, SSH keys and personally identifiable information. This sadly can incur a significant cost burden that even many mid to late-stage companies avoid taking — until they face a severe security incident hitting their businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Other participants in the round include DCM (Kyle Liu), Bling Capital (Ben Ling), and Precursor Ventures (Charles Hudson), as well as angels including Ancestry CEO Deborah Liu, Giphy founder Alex Chung, and Twitter VP of Engineering Nick Caldwell, formerly of Reddit. The idea to return to human curation, not A.I., these days.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The new fund will be run by former hedge fund veterans and engineers, including Boroughs, who previously co-founded an RIA that had $250 million in assets under management, and his co-founder, Chris Capriccio, formerly VP of engineering at LegalZoom. million or higher, a spokesperson said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The company announced today that it has raised a $100 million Series A round led by Accel, valuing the company at $1.3 It also plans to expand its team, starting with two new hires it announced in conjunction with the fundraise – a new head of engineering and product lead, Gaurav Garg and Zack Reneau-Weeden.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

While it has its cons, it remains top of mind for potential employees around the world before joining a new company. But while most people in Africa still go to physical offices despite the pandemic, a few companies have nevertheless embraced this concept. ’ because it was always the plan to become a global company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. The San Francisco-based company is currently active in some of the fastest-growing housing markets in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“Most companies that can leverage AI don’t have the funds nor the huge R&D that Amazon, Meta and other huge companies investing in AI have. ” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Eikon Therapeutics, co-founded by Betzig, is a biopharmaceutical company with plans to use super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, the data collected by these high-powered microscopes and a host of other tools to develop new drugs. . On Thursday, the company announced a $517.8 million Series B round. Alfred Freddie Bowie, Jr.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Sestito, the former director of threat research at Cylance and VP of engineering at Qualys, co-founded the company several months ago with Tanner Burns and Jim Ballard. “Adversarial machine learning attacks are not loud like ransomware — you have to be looking for them to catch them in time,” Sestito said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

CEO Kelly Ahuja tells TechCrunch that the proceeds, which bring Versa’s total capital raised to $316 million, will be put toward go-to-market efforts and scaling the company. A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months.

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Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

If your startup is growing, you’re hiring. And if you’re hiring senior-level talent, you probably need an outside recruiter. Few in-house recruiters have the expertise or network that a professional, third-party recruiter offers. However, there’s good news: The right recruiter does much more than hire someone.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

In my past as an investor and in my present as a pitch coach, I have come across a surprising number of companies where someone who’s not part of the founder team is out there trying to raise money for the company. Hire the right people to build the company. A (co-)founder leaving a company is a big deal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founder and CEO David Zamir is not actually an Uber alum, but one of his first employees, VP of Engineering Oliver Nicholas, is an early Uber engineer, and the company has also found a lot of traction of Uber drivers this year, after many found themselves out of work after the chilling effect that the pandemic had on ridesharing.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

Nowadays, when tech companies are among the largest businesses in the world, CTOs are some of the most influential and innovative people that shape how we live and work. With the technological outlook for the years ahead, these people manage to drive the striking change both within the company and beyond. The role of CTO.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization. Well, they have a lot more data.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. It suggests that you start by creating a one pager that contains: Background - two sentences Job Sought - two sentences Company Characteristics - geography, size, industry, etc.

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

Attracting and retaining top tech talent is a challenge for most companies. It takes more than good benefits and pay to retain talent: A LinkedIn study found that companies have a nearly 7% higher retention rate at the 3-year mark with employees who have learned skills on the job.

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Battery Ventures

MARCH 1, 2019

I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The capabilities of these new generative AI tools, most of which are powered by large language models (LLM), forced every company and employee to rethink how they work. Finding similar text is reduced to finding the distance between two vectors. Expect this to be standard for database providers in the future.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2020

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. Why did you decide to build this system?

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Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. Juan Pablo Buriticá , however, seeks to build teams in places where other North American companies typically don’t: Latin America, especially in Colombia. Start by building a network and a brand.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Asure , a company of over 600 employees, is a leading provider of cloud-based workforce management solutions designed to help small and midsized businesses streamline payroll and human resources (HR) operations and ensure compliance. John Canada, VP of Engineering at Asure. Yasmine Rodriguez, CTO of Asure.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

They’re powering code at the world’s most influential companies, and they might even be important practices on your team. Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes.

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Xebia

MAY 28, 2024

Top analysts from Gartner and executives from leading companies including PwC, Shazam, Sephora, Service Now, and the Coca-Cola Company converged at Gartner 2024 to share their approach to AI. All attendees wondered how to find the true value of GenAI and repeat it at scale.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

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