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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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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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

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Stemma , a new early-stage startup, has come up with a solution, a managed data catalogue that acts as an organization’s source of truth. The problem was that with so much data, employees had to kludge together systems to confirm the data validity. Today the company announced a $4.8

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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. While it’s early days, the vendor claims to have customers in augmented reality and computer vision startups, including Seerslab, Deepixel and Gunsens.

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

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Robotic process automation (RPA) has certainly been getting a lot of attention in the last year, with startups, acquisitions and IPOs all coming together in a flurry of market activity. To learn about all of this, we queried the following investors: Mallun Yen , founder and partner, Operator Collective.

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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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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