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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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The company released a fix 78 minutes later, but making it required users to manually access the affected devices, reboot in safe mode, and delete a bad file. It can take time to test each update to make sure it works before rolling it out time bad actors can take advantage of. An automated fix wasnt released until three days later.

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Unlocking the full potential of enterprise AI

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Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] Reliability and security is paramount.

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

TechCrunch

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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Insurance Technologies: 13 Disruptive Ideas to Change Insurance Companies with Telematics, Blockchain, Machine Learning, and APIs

Altexsoft

Have you ever tried to check your insurance claim status? While some insurance carriers have made significant modifications courtesy of disruptive digitalization (we’ve already discussed this topic in our whitepaper), most companies trail behind. trillion – needs to urgently change the ways of business development.

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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

TechCrunch

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. Rokas Tamoši?

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

TechCrunch

“But there’s more to the Lordstown mess than merely a single bad quarter,” writes Alex Wilhelm. As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. You can’t go 80 miles an hour, slam on the brakes, and expect nothing really bad to happen.