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Databricks crossed $350M run rate in Q3, up from $200M one year ago

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Ghodsi took over as CEO in 2016 after serving as the company’s VP of engineering. Or, perhaps a company wants to find patterns in some economic data. How do they find that information? He’s also a co-founder.

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Pinwheel raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation for its income verification APIs

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The company’s APIs allow its customers to access more robust information about individuals’ payroll and employment, in part because they track “non-traditional” sources of income like payments made through gig platforms like Uber or apps like Venmo, Lin said. Pinwheel has hired a number of its employees from $13.4

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Lightspeed backs CommandK’s mission to become the go-to enterprise security command center

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Companies accumulate a lot of sensitive data and store secrets, such as API tokens, SSH keys and personally identifiable information. The platform’s dashboard acts as a central control panel to inform about what is broken in the system to ensure data protection.

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Coatue direct deposits $20M into Pinwheel, a payroll API for neobanks

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It helps neobanks and other clients connect into a users’s payroll information system, offering everything from direct-deposit switching to income verification (a hot space these days ), and paycheck-linked lending. Among notable hires, Lauren Crossett, formerly of Plaid and Quovo, has joined the company as head of commercial.

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Crypto investors have 1099 problems, but Cointracker helps make sure filing taxes isn’t one

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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. It’s kind of our job to help people make an informed decision on how to do this reasonably.

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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

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We certainly see its ability to give us a unique advantage in finding new biology.”. But with this most recent funding round, the company has landed six more C-suite hires. . Daniel Anderson, former VP of biology at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, will join as chief scientific officer. Alfred Freddie Bowie, Jr.,

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

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This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. Not because wed be perfect, but because wed go out of our way to keep them involved and informed. Wed be the engine of a profitable and growing business. Theyre only expected to have classroom engineering skills.