N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At N2Growth, we recognize that the Chief Operating Officer is indispensable to the executive leadership team. By ensuring that operational procedures and systems are efficiently implemented, the operations executive bridges the gap between strategic intent and practical execution.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention.

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Fintech Development Team Review Systems Review Software Review 363

AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

The LLM can then use its extensive knowledge base, which can be regularly updated with the latest medical research and clinical trial data, to provide relevant and trustworthy responses tailored to the patients specific situation. Extraction of relevant data points for electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical trial databases.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Healthcare Systems Review 113

TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. Image Credits: LinkSquares.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Systems Review 246

TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. The brothers say that they discovered the challenges of modern B2B sales firsthand as their teams scaled from a handful of reps to thousands on the go-to-market team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. James Nash.

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CIO

JULY 15, 2022

Its weather-related services can be as simple as helping utilities predict short-term demand for energy, or as complex as advising maritime transporters on routing ocean-going cargo ships around developing storms. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

IDCs June 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 6 , found that approximately 33% of organizations experienced system or data access disruption for one week or more due to ransomware. DRP: A DRP helps in the recovery of IT infrastructure, critical systems, applications, and data.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Data and AI need to be at the core of this transformation. Most firms, however, have not yet developed this level of digital maturity within their own operations, or the wherewithal to implement data- and AI-driven operational transformations within their portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. ” So , how is the team at Pariti setting out to solve these problems? So basically anywhere that doesn’t have a mature, healthy startup ecosystem.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

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. Definitely, they’ve done their own very deep due diligence as part of that.” I’m super excited about that future.”

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

But outsourcing operational risk is untenable, given the criticality of data-first modernization to overall enterprise success. Therefore, it’s up to CIOs to do due diligence about what sort of security controls are in place and to ensure data is well protected in an [as-a-service] operating model.

Cloud 172

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Technology leaders want to harness the power of their data to gain intelligence about what their customers want and how they want it. This is why the overall data and analytics (D&A) market is projected to grow astoundingly and expected to jump to $279.3 billion by 2030. That failure can be costly.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The UL team will be asking questions as well as analyzing code. Even more cynically they ask whether the workers — or contractors — would answer all questions honestly, or would they be more likely to tell the UL team what they think they want to hear, so that they can get the most favorable rating? How well has it removed data bias?”

Software Review 178

Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review Analysis 178

TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop.

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CIO

JULY 6, 2023

When presented by the new Supply Chain Due Diligence Act ( SCDDA) in Germany, PwC realized their clients would need tools and processes to automate evaluation of suppliers. Managing risk takes teamwork The team at PwC developed the CYVC application using SAP tools along with PwC’s best practice risk analysis methodology.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Systems Review 144

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 19, 2021

“[T]he threats to consumers arising from data abuse, including those posed by algorithmic harms, are mounting and urgent.” Difficult questions about compliance and legality often pour cold water on late-stage AI deployments as well, because data scientists rarely get attorneys or oversight personnel involved in the build-stages of AI systems.

Technical Review 145

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Tenable

DECEMBER 20, 2024

To learn more about cloud security , check out these Tenable resources: Establishing a Cloud Security Program: Best Practices and Lessons Learned (blog) Empower Your Cloud: Mastering CNAPP Security (white paper) Know Your Exposure: Is Your Cloud Data Secure in the Age of AI? (on-demand The North Korean IT workers got jobs with U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Edge computing is seeing an explosion of interest as enterprises process more data at the edge of their networks. But while some organizations stand to benefit from edge computing, which refers to the practice of storing and analyzing data near the end-user, not all have a handle of what it requires.

Disaster Recovery 215

Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Company Development Team Review 215

Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Alarms are blaring, data streams are pouring in from multiple sources, and a critical decision must be made within seconds. In this case, NASA officials eager to proceed with the launch gave more weight to data supporting their decision, ignoring critical warnings from engineers with serious concerns.

Systems Review 52

Systems Review Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 52

CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. We walked into a partner-managed cloud environment,” he says. “We

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Course Cloud Systems Review Development Team Review 172

DataRobot

APRIL 27, 2021

With these technologies, business users can easily build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate humans actions interacting with digital systems and software. DataRobot delivers powerful AI and automated machine learning to accelerate the model development, deployment , and monitoring of models at scale.

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Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review Technical Review 98

CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

What if business users started developing alter-ego avatars that performed real business functions? In February 2024, Bjorn Jesch, CIO at German asset management and investment firm DWS , posted a video of his own AI-built avatar providing a glimpse of how he saw the market developing in the near- to mid-term. Artificial?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Shield AI, which makes military autonomous flying systems, raised $165 million at a $2.3 we like Ingrid ’s inclusion of company president Brandon Tseng’s ranking of the United States’ aerospace development compared to China’s. Product research is expensive, but product development is even more pricy. billion valuation.

Technical Review 208

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Systems Review 208

Datavail

AUGUST 4, 2021

Increased scalability and flexibility: As you accumulate more and more data, scalability becomes an increasingly important concern for analytics, especially to handle rapid usage spikes. The AWS Auto Scaling feature lets you define rules to automatically adjust your capacity, so the system never goes down due to heavy demand.

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AWS Technical Review Analytics Development Team Review 98

CIO

JANUARY 30, 2024

The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data. Always the gatekeepers of much of the data necessary for ESG reporting, CIOs are finding that companies are even more dependent on them,” says Nancy Mentesana, ESG executive director at Labrador US, a global communications firm focused on corporate disclosure documents.

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Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

The following advice is based on my years of testing and monitoring for issues as a security engineer, and implementing APIs as a developer. Invest in Application Security early When thinking about the risks we’re willing to accept, making a decision late in the development phase can be costly.

Development Team Review 130

Development Team Review Testing Software Review Technical Review 130

CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. That was our story, and we worked very diligently to change the narrative.” We are in the business of getting people to where they want to go.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Working together at Uber’s risk team, Yifu Diao and Ming Fang came to realize that with the hypergrowth the company was seeing came fraud challenges. When Fang joined Uber’s risk team in 2016, there was a need to use Mastermind at dispatch time — when drivers and riders are matched.

Fintech 204

Fintech Software Review Engineering Software Engineering 204

Firemon

APRIL 21, 2025

Key highlights: FISMA compliance is essential for organizations handling government data, ensuring robust security controls and regulatory adherence. The primary goal is to protect government information systems against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. Lets break them down.

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Compliance Security Enterprise Systems Review 52

CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

But outsourcing operational risk is untenable, given the criticality of data-first modernization to overall enterprise success. Therefore, it’s up to CIOs to do due diligence about what sort of security controls are in place and to ensure data is well protected in an [as-a-service] operating model.

Software Review 143

Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review Data Center 143

CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. Many of the new skills are in rare supply, as are team leaders experienced in this new development paradigm.”

Technical Review 186

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The new cohort features startups operating in a wide-ranging space: Calyx Global is helping businesses choose better carbon credits and reimagining the ratings system; Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous medical coding platform to help U.S. Surge launches two cohorts every year, featuring between 10 and 20 startups each.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments. MeterFeeder powers parking payments, data and management for individuals, fleets and municipalities.

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