Keep IT complexity in check with pragmatic composable commerce

Legacy digital commerce architectures are no longer sustainable in today’s commerce arena. With every component tightly integrated into a monolithic architecture, a legacy platform’s inflexibility, low reliability, and high maintenance costs make it nearly impossible for a merchant to t

Three human mistakes VCs often make, and how understanding them can help entrepreneurs fundraise better

As you might know by now, venture capital is an industry with a high failure rate. Standard & Poor’s recently reported that bankruptcies by venture capital and private equity portfolio companies are reaching their highest numbers since 2010, and these include companies that raised over $1

Navigating startups through smart investments, outsourcing and cash preservation

We often are taught that a company is only as good as its talent. While I've found this to be true, in recent years, investing in tech has become equally important. Every aspect of your business will be impacted by the technology you source and how you choose to incorporate it — from what sol

GitLab expands its AI lineup with Duo Chat

Earlier this year, GitLab unveiled Duo, a set of AI features that aim to help developers be more productive by summarizing issues and generating descriptions of epics and issues, as well as through code suggestions and vulnerability explanations, among other features. Today, the company added Duo C

5 can't-miss strategies to break through in a crowded market

In June, technewss highlighted an under-the-radar boom happening in HR tech: With the tenacity of remote work, more and more business leaders are seeking out tech to manage remote teams — and HR tech startups are rising to the challenge. The good news (per a GP Bullhound report cited in that pie

Investors double down on Snaptrude in challenging legacy building design platforms

Snaptrude — a startup aiming to compete against traditional platforms in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) design sector, including Autodesk, Trimble and Nemetschek — with its modern approach and cloud-based offering, has raised $14 million in a Series A round, just 10 months

GitHub teases Copilot enterprise plan that lets companies customize for their codebase

GitHub today announced plans for an enterprise subscription tier that will allow companies to fine-tune its Copilot pair-programmer based on their internal codebase. The news constituted part of a number of notable tidbits the Microsoft-owned company revealed at its annual GitHub Universe developer

Why Flip AI built a custom large language model to run its observability platform

Observability is a bit of a buzz word in IT circles these days, but it basically involves monitoring a company's systems, looking for issues or trying to find the root cause of problems after they happen — and they do happen all the time, sometimes slowing down a site or application, and

EarnBetter applies generative AI to writing resumes and cover letters

Will AI make resumes and cover letters even less useful than they were before? Quite possibly. Case in point, EarnBetter, a startup founded by former Credit Karma employees, is developing a platform that lets users upload an existing resume or cover letter and have AI reformat and rewrite it for a

M&A founder lessons: Valuable insights from PlanGrid’s $875M acquisition by Autodesk

In December 2018, Autodesk acquired PlanGrid for $875 million. I worked at Autodesk, assisting in integration for 15 months in the newly formed Autodesk Construction Group. Integrating a startup into another company is like jumping into freezing cold water — there is an initial shock to the entir

Code-generating AI platform Tabnine nabs $25M investment

Developers are ready to embrace AI tools, spurred by the dual promises of increased productivity and faster learning. According to one recent survey, 77% of devs feel favorably about using AI in their workflows and 70% claim to be using — or planning to use — AI coding tools this year.

Samsung unveils ChatGPT alternative Samsung Gauss that can generate text, code and images

Just a few days after OpenAI’s developer event, Samsung unveiled its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, at the Samsung AI Forum 2023. Samsung Gauss, developed by the tech giant's research unit Samsung Research, consists of three tools: Samsung Gauss Language, Samsung Gauss Code and

Sift raises $7.5M to build a telemetry stack for the ‘digital backbone to the physical world’

Excellent hardware requires an excellent software stack. Few parts of that stack more clearly illustrate this point than telemetry, which essentially refers to the collection of real-time, critical data on machine performance. A weak telemetry system can spell catastrophe for hardware projects, so

Cast AI, which helps companies optimize cloud spend, lands $35M

The mass move to digital during the pandemic and the embrace of generative AI accelerated cloud adoption, and the trend hasn’t reversed. On the contrary, Gartner estimates that, in 2023, global end-user spending on public clouds will reach over $599 billion, up from $421 billion in 2021 and