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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. In 2018, it was that kind year. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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What We Can Learn from the Biggest Tech Policy Mistakes of 2018

Revolution

2018 was a year filled with plenty of news to remind us of the importance of policy in the world of innovation. While much of the recent focus has been on Big Tech, it is becoming increasingly clear that more and more innovators, including startups, will need to think about policy implications as they grow and scale.

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Netlify snags $105M Series D to fuel Jamstack-focused web development

TechCrunch

And that’s in the background of why we also raised this next round to really accelerate that, to fuel the developer revolution and advance [this] modern way [of developing websites], and to also tackle the next set of challenges. Netlify nabs $53M Series C as microservices approach to web development grows.

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Tripolygon, a 3D modeling software developer, lets metaverse creators make their own 3D assets

TechCrunch

A South Korean 3D modeling software developer called Tripolygon enables metaverse creators to make their own 3D assets using the Unity plugins. Creating 3D modeling is no longer a field for experts or software developers only,” Tryipolgon CEO Jae-sik Hwang said in an interview with TechCrunch. million (6.5

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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

TechCrunch

In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system. the number of edge cases).

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DEA earns $10M to accelerate market expansion, development of PlayMining

AsiaTechDaily

The funding will be spent to further accelerate its business and market expansion and to help optimize the development of PlayMining. Founded in 2018, the company provides dynamic financing solutions to high-growth and capital-intensive businesses. A separate Web3 partnership was also signed.

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Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division 

TechCrunch

Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. The Series A round brings Refract’s total raised to $9 million.