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Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks

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It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team. While it is still quite difficult to raise a funding round in the current economic environment, Riot managed to put together an interesting list of investors. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns.

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

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To give TechCrunch+ readers a better understanding of what education investors are looking for today, seven leading venture capitalists in the category answered a series of questions about the sector’s future. Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education. Malvika Bhagwat and Kriti Bansal , Owl Ventures.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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Co-founder and CEO Afif Khoury says that the new capital — a combination of debt and equity of which Khoury wouldn’t provide a very detailed breakdown — will be put toward mergers and acquisitions, customer success and international expansion. . ” Khoury has a colorful background.

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The end of a second straight month of layoffs in tech

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There are also the founders who — within the same breath of their layoff announcement — will make it clear that they are still hiring for strategic roles. Here are some of the companies that laid off staff this week, and the stated reasons behind those cuts: Niantic. Byju’s cuts hundreds of jobs.

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Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund

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We’ve covered the dry powder that venture capital firms are sitting on and also how difficult it is to raise funding in this economic environment. It was way harder than venture capital as a founder,” Teran told TechCrunch. “I Teran and Gettinger are investing initial $1.5