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Juro draws $23M into its browser-based contract automation platform

TechCrunch

London-based legaltech startup Juro has grabbed $23 million in Series B funding for its browser-based contract automation platform. “These companies often process very high volumes of contracts, which is where we really help. “We do this by bringing those contracts out of Word and into a custom-built, browser-native editor.”

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How genAI is transforming financial services

CIO

By Michael Cullum, VP of Engineering at Bud Financial Generative AI (genAI) is a powerful tool that is transforming the financial industry and empowers financial services professionals. At the same time, banks can use this data to improve their own decisions around areas like credit affordability and application processes.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Closing the Gap: Hiring A Fractional Startup CTO We’re not suggesting that early-stage startups should hire a full-time CTO. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap.

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Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

TechCrunch

“We keep doing the same things over and over again,” said McKendrick, who was previously VP of engineering at the now shuttered self-driving truck startup Starsky Robotics. Now, with prototypes built and an ambition to scale, McKendrick has raised $4.3 million in seed funding led by Trucks VC and Fifty Years.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering. He declined to reveal revenue figures, instead pointing to San Jose-based Versa’s annual contract value, which he says grew 60% over the “past few years.”

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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

TechCrunch

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. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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