Intel Capital, Khosla lead $27M investment into SiPhox Health’s at-home blood-testing tech
Six out of 10 Americans are living with a chronic disease, but access to convenient and low-cost health testing isn’t always available for patients, and bottlenecks still exist with current testing approaches. SiPhox Health wants to change that through more advanced blood testing using silicon photonic chip technology to put
Read moreBig Sky Capital debuts its $20M fund to invest in enterprise SaaS startups
Early-stage venture capital firm Big Sky Capital, operating in Miami, Kazakhstan and Singapore, today announced its Fund I with $20 million in capital commitments. Founded by Jahn Karsybaev and Adil Nurgozhin, who met while at the University of Montana — which inspired the firm’s name — after careers in corporate
Read moreTeam behind crypto privacy protocol Manta Network is now valued at $500M
Even amid the crypto winter, some web3 companies are racking up hefty valuations. P0x Labs, the team behind Manta Network, a privacy-preserving protocol running on the Polkadot blockchain, announced today that it has reached a $500 million valuation following a $25 million Series A funding round. Lead investors in the
Read moreCodeSee adds generative AI to explore code bases with natural language queries
CodeSee was founded in 2019 with the goal of helping programmers understand the entire code base inside a company. The idea was to provide visual maps, so you could see the connections between services and systems and how changes might affect the different links. Today, the company announced it was
Read morePreply, the language app known for its live tutors, closes out Series C at $120M and doubles down on AI
Language learning platform Preply made a name for itself for connecting students with a selection of some 35,000 tutors and group classes across some 50 languages. Now it’s looking to the future — an AI future. The company today announced that it has raised a further $70 million in funding
Read moreFeature-based code organization in frameworkless projects
Organizing front-end projects to minimize cross-cutting concernsPhoto by Ivan Torres on UnsplashFor the past couple of months, I’ve been working on two side projects. I was going through a little experimentation spree and played with various techniques, tools, and concepts. Finally, in the clear, I’ve decided to summarize my thoughts and
Read moreNigeria’s MyCover.ai to scale its open insurance API platform with new funding
Africa’s insurance market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% between 2022 and 2028, reaching $120 billion. Though seemingly impressive, the insurance industry in Africa could be worth more if insurance penetration on the continent wasn’t extremely low, less than 3%, according to reports.
Read moreReliance-backed Dunzo defers staff pay again amid funding search
Dunzo, a hyperlocal delivery startup in India, is postponing employee salaries for a month and intends to settle remaining dues from the previous month also in September as the Google and Reliance Retail-backed startup hunts for new funding. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which partially deferred making payroll for last month until
Read moreThe Last Mile in a Software Solution is the Longest
Last-minute integrations take longer than a minute to doContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreLeadership Journal: Become an Inspiring Leader in 10 Minutes a Day
Improving your leadership skills with self-reflection — collect new insights, think creatively, make better decisionsHave you ever finished a busy workweek, wondering what it was that you’ve accomplished throughout? Me too.I bet you spend time every day racing between numerous tasks on your to-do list. Perhaps you’re rushing from one meeting to the
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