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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

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Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 Pydantic Services Inc.

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Stemma launches with $4.8M seed to build managed data catalogue

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Company co-founder and CEO Mark Grover says the product is actually built on top of the open-source Amundsen data catalogue project that he helped launch at Lyft to manage its massive data requirements. The problem was that with so much data, employees had to kludge together systems to confirm the data validity.

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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

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Assuming Choi’s estimations are rooted in fact, Bobidi bucks the trend in the data science industry, which tends to pay data validators and labelers poorly. “We believe that the era of big data is ending and we’re about to enter the new era of quality data. per hour.

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5 investors discuss the future of RPA after UiPath’s IPO

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To learn about all of this, we queried the following investors: Mallun Yen , founder and partner, Operator Collective. Ed Sim , founder and managing partner, Boldstart Ventures. These are mostly data entry and data validation jobs. Jai Das , partner and president, Sapphire Ventures.

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SaaS is still open for business, but it’s going to take longer to buy and sell

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Ryan Neu Contributor Share on Twitter Ryan Neu is the founder and CEO of Vendr, a SaaS purchase platform. Early Q1 data validates this hypothesis, with renewals increasing 2% to 57 days and net new sales cycles increasing 10% to 46 days. Previously, he was a B2B SaaS sales leader at both InVision and HubSpot.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Validate data. Validate firmly held positions. Read plenty of “what went wrong” eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. Conclusion. Know your planned sources of differentiation and adjust as you learn.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

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May 27 Clubhouse chat: How to ensure data quality in the era of Big Data. Join TechCrunch reporter Ron Miller and Patrik Liu Tran, co-founder and CEO of automated real-time data validation and quality monitoring platform Validio, on Thursday, May 27 at 9 a.m. Image Credits: TechCrunch. The world produces 2.5