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Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo Announce $192M Investment – One of the Largest Ever in Cloud Physical Security

American Entrepreneurship

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo are independent companies majority owned by Dean Drako.

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Corelight secures $75M Series D to bolster its network defense offering

TechCrunch

Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. . million Series A in July 2017.

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Validate Your Startup Idea Like a Pro: My 4-Step Framework

Entrepreneur's Handbook

To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry. Distribution: what existing networks can we latch onto for easier distribution (i.e., Define which problems are most acute and worth solving. Easy to sell to? Shopify app store)?

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

TechCrunch

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 and Europe. for the time-being.

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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

Founders need to shift their thinking to an assumption of understanding—that investors who see thousands of pitches per year probably do understand what a founder is doing the vast majority of the time, and have simply decided that the risk/reward for investing in their company simply isn’t as good of a deal as others they’re currently looking at.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours

TechCrunch

That’s what Microsoft is saying after some of its services, like Outlook, Xbox Live and Teams, went down during a “change made to the Microsoft Wide Area Network,” Ivan reports. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 And we’re back! What you text is what you’ll see : We’ve been hearing about text-to-image lately, and today is no different.