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Six tips for SaaS founders who don’t want VC money

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Established in 2006, JotForm allows customizable data collection for enhanced lead generation, survey distribution, payment collections and more. After finishing college with a computer science degree, I worked as a developer for a New York media company. Aytekin Tank. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Apptopia raises $20M to expand its competitive intelligence business beyond mobile

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Apptopia’s rivals like Sensor Tower and App Annie use mobile panels to gather app data, among other methods, Kay explains. These panels involve consumer-facing apps like VPN clients and ad blockers, which users would download not necessarily understanding that they were agreeing to having their app usage data collected.

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Daily Crunch: Nigerian startup that stored its ‘day-to-day operational budget’ on FTX announces staff cuts 

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The real-time data startup grabbed $12.9 Oh no, Quix is developing event-driven applications with Python. And just like that, VLC’s download ban in India was lifted , Manish reports. million in Series A funding, not to do this with ksqlDB, Java-based solutions or any of those fancy schmancy SQL-based analytics solutions.

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MindLabs raises £1.4 million for its new platform, a “Peloton for mental health”

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During the next few months, including time spent in COVID-19 lockdown, they began researching and developing initial concepts for the platform. Halo was developed with a hardware specialist that Ebrahim said has seven years of building and distributing medical grade wearables.

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

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Countless organizations have developed highly capable speech recognition systems, which sit at the core of software and services from tech giants like Google, Amazon and Meta. “[The models] show strong ASR results in ~10 languages. ” Whisper has its limitations, particularly in the area of text prediction.

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Astronomer ready for its next mission after Datakin acquisition, $213M Series C

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At that time, the scrappy data analytics company had scooped up $3.5 million in funding to develop its tool for what happens after you’ve collected a bunch of data, namely assembling and organizing it so the data can be analyzed. to make data analytics more accessible. Image Credits: Astonomer.

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MoviePass co-founder’s PreShow Interactive raises $3M to expand into gaming

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Users will have to download a separate app to watch the ads and get the benefits, but Spikes said this is actually better than trying to integrate advertising or branded content into the game itself, which can be a slow process for the developer and the advertiser, while also being distracting for the players.