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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

NordVPN and the other security and identity management products that Nord sells — they include the NordPass password manager, NordLocker for cloud sync and storage, NordLayer for network access for businesses and developer tools to build custom VPNs — have collectively grown to 15 million users over the years. firm Versprite.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

TechCrunch

Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. A standard executive search process will typically entail significant manual desk research reviewing historical databases that are only as up-to-date as the day each CV was written.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO

This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. For Moncrieff, the conversation was really around ownership, transparency, and cost.

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Orca Security raises $210M Series C at a unicorn valuation

TechCrunch

And, of course, to increase our go-to-market activities.” The promise of Orca Security is that it can not only cover a company’s entire range of cloud assets but that it is also able to help security teams prioritize the risks they need to focus on. I’m super excited about that future.”

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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

TechCrunch

One of them was Orca AI which was developing a collision-avoidance system for ships, and it was this company from a sea of samey startups that Playfair ended up investing in — both in its 2019 pre-seed funding round, and its follow-on Series A round two years later. There just wasn’t enough differentiation.”

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

For teams dealing with loads of technical debt, microservices offer a path to the promised land. Higher frequency releases and increased collaboration between dev and ops is exciting, but it’s important to stay diligent. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. That doesn’t mean it will be easy though.

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Why CIOs should embrace the potential of data and analytics enablement platforms for a brighter future

CIO

In a recent Gartner data and analytics trends report, author Ramke Ramakrishnan notes, “The power of AI and the increasing importance of GenAI are changing the way people work, teams collaborate, and processes operate. Thankfully, the challenges are being met, and companies are now offering options. Interactions give the “why.”

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