Crunchbase News

APRIL 10, 2024

By Nicolas Sauvage Due diligence has made a comeback. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours on due diligence and call 10 references. The assumption was often that someone else had already done the diligence. With that, high-quality diligence has returned, and it is both art and a science.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But startup-land is different: before a founding team can breathe life into their great idea, someone must first show investors exactly how that idea solves an existing problem and generates enough revenue that it’s worth the risk and paperwork. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. In a comprehensive article that weighs development costs and technical debt against time to market , Chopra encourages readers to consider factors like product defensibility and risk before deciding whether to build or buy. .

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Their teams miss out on crucial learning experiences, leaving them ill-equipped to handle genuine AI deployments down the road.” You can probably solve that with an RPA bot, or you could probably solve that with some custom code.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Instabug , a startup that aims to help mobile developers monitor, identify and fix bugs within apps, has raised $46 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. For example, so they can see if an issue is happening, and understand what’s going on before a user is giving bad reviews or ranting on Twitter.” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. “I’ve been working in the aircraft development space for decades, but 2021 was different,” Tigner writes. We have three full-time contractors doing business development and sales in the U.S., Mainstream attention is increasing.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. And if you’ve added “AI” to your pitch deck only to make it more appealing, here’s some more bad news: FOMO is passé, and due diligence is the new black.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well. And today, he explained, many ML teams are working with ad-hoc tooling or simply without software assistance. monitoring ( Atlassian , Datadog , etc.), and the like.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Qapita , a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A funding. Its software platform helps private companies digitize and manage cap tables, perform due diligence and issue equity to employees.

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The Crazy Programmer

APRIL 1, 2022

Today, game development is one of the biggest industries in the world with thousands of developers creating games in every niche. By 2025, the game development market size is expected to reach over USD 250 billion. Virtual Assist aims to help you make the most of your development workflow. What is Game Development?

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? Communication flow: How fast do important developments/results travel throughout the entire organization? Team deterioration: Losing top talent to more dynamic organizations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” I promise you two things, you promise me two, too : Make 4 promises to hire better staff for your startup team , by Haje.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. For example, are you using gender-coded or inclusive-coded language to attract inclusion-minded people? Remember, the best candidates have options. Rewiring the system.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

We work with contributors to develop guest posts that will help TechCrunch+ readers solve actual problems, so it’s always a delight to present a comprehensive “how to” article. In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan.

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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

MARCH 11, 2022

Based in Warsaw, Poland, Intent assists a wide variety of companies with everything from product design and UX to development and deployment of connected devices. As a development shop, how involved do you get when helping clients validate ideas before they bring their apps to market?

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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.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. Much of the work requires travel to remote regions of the world, and teams need to become operational almost immediately. “We I call it ‘learn by doing it.’

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Trigent

APRIL 26, 2021

At Trigent Software, we have a customer-first approach. We deliver scalable, secure, agile, flexible, high-quality software that our clients require. Our goal lies in delivering next-gen software applications that streamline business processes and promises superior customer experience. We currently hold a 4.8

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CircleCI

MAY 27, 2022

With digital collaboration tools enabling teams to work across borders and time zones with relative ease , the competition for skilled employees has increased substantially. With so many obstacles, Europe’s leading tech startups have adapted a variety of intriguing strategies for attracting and retaining talent on their tech teams.

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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 3, 2022

Stax , a startup that allows Africans to buy airtime, send and request money, and transfer funds between accounts via automated USSD codes, has raised a $2.2 Telcos and banks dominate this mass market, providing the tech infrastructure that facilitates these code-based transactions. million seed extension round. Enter Stax.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

With startups proliferating across IT services, finance technology, technology hardware, enterprise software, and artificial intelligence, among other domains, knowing where to focus your search for an innovation partner can be overwhelming. In the absence of a multistage due diligence process, an enterprise could face third-party risks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But those more aligned with the private sphere, such as venture capitalists and private equity investors, perhaps aren’t quite as well-served when it comes to funnelling into the data they need to carry out their due diligence ahead of making a big investment, or tracking and managing their portfolio through to an exit.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

SAFe is particularly well-suited to complex projects that involve multiple large teams at the project, program, and portfolio levels. An ART is a team comprised of agile teams that, along with stakeholders, develop one or more solutions in a value stream. Apply systems thinking into all facets of development.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. No security team can be 100% certain that their defenses are bulletproof all the time–this is what adversaries take advantage of. Plants decoy credentials in Windows memory.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Expensify may be the most ambitious software company ever to mostly abandon the Bay Area as the center of its operations. Expensify may be the most ambitious software company ever to mostly abandon the Bay Area as the center of its operations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2022

D’Onofrio is seeing rounds taking longer, VCs asking more questions and the return of full due diligence (which, for anyone who has been reading this newsletter, is music to my paranoid ears). You’re raising money, but is it to hire, develop, acquire or just be able to exist?

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. billion or $11.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

Last month at TechCrunch Early Stage, Glen Evans, a partner on Greylock’s core talent team, joined me to talk about how founders can optimize the recruiting and hiring process , source talent, and uncover some best practices for closing candidates. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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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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OverOps

JUNE 11, 2019

For teams dealing with loads of technical debt, microservices offer a path to the promised land. Smaller code bases are easier to understand, and with clearly separated services the overall architecture is much “cleaner”. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. That doesn’t mean it will be easy though.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Full articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. After reviewing Affirm’s profitability, revenue and the impact of COVID-19 on its bottom line, he asked (and answered) three questions: What does Affirm’s loss rate on consumer loans look like?

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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.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 27, 2023

ChatGPT is a trendy topic in all industries, but today let’s discuss the top use cases of this AI tool for developers. This language model can help you with coding, email creation, and essay writing and answer your inquiries. However, developers will continue to play a crucial role in driving appropriate experiences.

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