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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

However, like so many enterprises before it, the business faced significant challenges and in 2015, three quarters of the team was made redundant, including Amie and Mel. And within a short space of time, she worked her way up to an executive boardroom position.”

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SOC Prime lands $11M Series A to become ‘Spotify for cyber threats’

TechCrunch

Currently, the platform is home to more than 130,000 detections aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, a curated knowledge base of known adversary threats, tactics and techniques. .” This curates threat detection content from nearly 400 researchers and allows you to pull it into your existing SIEM and XDR platforms.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

An engineer by trade — Rangasaye was the COO at Groq and once headed product planning at Altera, which Intel acquired in 2015 — he says that he was motivated to start Sima.ai .” Rangasaye spent most of his career in the semiconductor industry at Xilinx, where he was GM of the company’s overall business.

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A Personal Update

Andreessen Horowitz

Frank Chen, my first hiring manager who took a bet on me and for many years taught me investment frameworks. The broader tech media landscape that started to cover global technology and Asian startups closely starting in 2015. This was pivotal in giving me more confidence in my instincts.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

TechCrunch

FRAMEWORK , which invests in Series A and Series B companies, said it made a first close on over $100 million for its Fund II and expects to close the fund, targeting $250 million, by the end of the year. billion since its founding in 2015. South Col is a joint venture between SellersFunding, Global Wired Advisors and Escala.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

TechCrunch

Using examples from Airbnb, Uber and others, he shares several strategies for avoiding the most common pitfalls, along with the pitch deck framework Slidebean uses with most of its clients. Use case/audience. Possible outcomes. How can we call it anything but a win?”. Investors bet that Sweetgreen will make sweet amounts of green.