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Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success

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In 2020, companies of all sizes, in all corners of the world, were forced to shift to remote work with the onset of COVID-19. The best engineering work isn’t done in isolation, but in collaboration, as teams discuss, wrangle and brainstorm through problems. Active versus passive collaboration. The whiteboard.

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

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CEO Khusid told TechCrunch he considers the company a “pioneer of visual collaboration,” with its early days as a digital whiteboard. Visual collaboration is something that allows teams in companies to better be on the same page. Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges. Image Credits: Andrey Khusid.

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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

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AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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Highnote launches a collaboration platform for musicians and podcasters offering voice notes, polls and more

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Highnote launched to the public today, allowing musicians, podcasters, and other creators to collaborate on audio files by recording voice notes directly over a track, making timestamped reactions, and creating polls to get opinions. Rashawn said, “Highnote makes client collaborations easy and seamless. Highnote changes that.”.

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

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That situation can lead to a huge waste of time for startups that want to sell to enterprise customers: a business development black hole. Some recent research that my company, Innovation Leader , conducted in collaboration with KPMG LLP , suggests a constructive approach. We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020.

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Singapore-based Nektar.ai gets $6M to help B2B sales team collaborate more effectively

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million led by Nexus Venture Partners and announced in November 2020, the new funding brings Nektar.ai’s total seed capital to $8.1 has been in stealth mode since it was founded in 2020 by Abhijeet Vijayvergiya and Aravind Ravi Sulekha, working with hundreds of clients in private beta mode. Combined with its previous round, $2.15

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Four days left to save big on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

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If you’re a part of the early-stage startup space race, or aspire to such celestial heights, don’t miss out on early-bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. You never know what might develop from a CrunchMatch connection. Join this intrepid global community at TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17.