Author Archives: Danny Crichton

Hashicorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round

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The rise of the cloud over the past decade has forced software developers and DevOps engineers to completely rearchitect the modern web application, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. That’s a really painful proposition when done manually, which is where Hashicorp comes in to play. The company’s suite of products helps everyone in the tech workforce […] Continue reading Hashicorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round→

Refocusing on relocation, Jobbatical launches new offices in Spain and Germany

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I’ve been following Estonia-headquartered Jobbatical and its founder, Karoli Hindriks, for years. Part of the vanguard of startups working on infrastructure for digital nomads, the startup has been building the base platform to help global job seekers hire and fire their governments. Digital nomads are hiring and firing their governments As Jobbatical has worked with […] Continue reading Refocusing on relocation, Jobbatical launches new offices in Spain and Germany→

The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip

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Deep learning is all the rage these days in enterprise circles, and it isn’t hard to understand why. Whether it is optimizing ad spend, finding new drugs to cure cancer, or just offering better, more intelligent products to customers, machine learning — and particularly deep learning models — have the potential to massively improve a […] Continue reading The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip→

Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA with $53M in series A funding

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Silicon is apparently the new gold these days, or so VCs hope. What was once a no-go zone for venture investors, who feared the long development lead times and high technical risk required for new entrants in the semiconductor field, has now turned into one of the hottest investment areas for enterprise and data VCs. […] Continue reading Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA with $53M in series A funding→

Vannevar Labs comes out of stealth to bring best-in-class AI tech to national security agencies

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Few organizations have the complex data and analytics problems that challenge the defense and intelligence communities every single day. Whether it is managing petabytes of text, audio, or video data, finding extraordinarily small patterns in the noise, or processing multilingual analytics, the agencies at the heart of America’s national security system confront cutting-edge problems every […] Continue reading Vannevar Labs comes out of stealth to bring best-in-class AI tech to national security agencies→

ZenBusiness raises $15m to help founders launch and grow “worry-free”

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There are two sides to starting a new business. On one side, entrepreneurs need creativity, imagination — a dream, essentially — to find, build, and market a new product to users and consumers. But on the other side, they have to deal with the regulatory state and all the minutia that comes with running any […] Continue reading ZenBusiness raises $15m to help founders launch and grow “worry-free”→

Fundbox raises $176 million Series C to build ‘Visa’ for B2B payments

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Credit cards have become all but ubiquitous for consumer transactions, and it isn’t hard to see why. By intermediating payments, networks like Visa allow buyers and sellers to exchange money for goods and services without knowing the financial risk profile of the counter-party. Rather than applying for credit at every merchant you shop at, you […] Continue reading Fundbox raises $176 million Series C to build ‘Visa’ for B2B payments→

How to move from VP of Sales to CRO with leading exec recruiter David Ives

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It wasn’t so long ago that sales meant just showing up with a deck and a smile. These days, it seems that sales leaders almost need a PhD in statistics just to get through the typical day managing a sales funnel. From SQLs and MQLs to NDRR and managing overall retention, the roles of VP […] Continue reading How to move from VP of Sales to CRO with leading exec recruiter David Ives→

The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip

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Superlatives abound at Cerebras, the until-today stealthy next-generation silicon chip company looking to make training a deep learning model as quick as buying toothpaste from Amazon. Launching after almost three years of quiet development, Cerebras introduced its new chip today — and it is a doozy. The “Wafer Scale Engine” is 1.2 trillion transistors (the […] Continue reading The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip→

Catalyst raises $15M from Accel to transform data-driven customer success

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Managing your customers has changed a lot in the past decade. Out are the steak dinners and ballgame tickets to get a sense of a contract’s chance at renewal, and in are churn analysis and a whole bunch of data science to learn whether a customer and their users like or love your product. That […] Continue reading Catalyst raises $15M from Accel to transform data-driven customer success→