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Salesforce leads $15M investment in Asian HR tech platform Darwinbox

TechCrunch

The fundraise caps the most successful year for the startup that started with uncertainty as the coronavirus spread across Asian nations. The startup initially took a hit as its customers scrambled to navigate through the global pandemic, but the last two quarters have been its best to date, said Peddi.

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How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line

TechCrunch

Earlier this week, the New York Times shone a light on some of the desperation that founders are experiencing as they try and fail to secure compute power for their nascent artificial intelligence startups, thanks to the big companies (and even rich nations ) racing to snatch them up. TechCrunch: Tell us about this partnership with Oracle.

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SambaNova raises $676M at a $5.1B valuation to double down on cloud-based AI software for enterprises

TechCrunch

Co-founded by two Stanford professors, Kunle Olukotun and Chris Ré, and Liang, who had been an engineering executive at Oracle, SambaNova has been around since 2017 and has raised more than $1 billion to date — both to build out its AI-focused hardware, which it calls DataScale , and to build out the system that runs on it.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

.” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. Of these companies, 40% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent more than 70 nationalities.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

SparkCognition achieved unicorn status earlier this year while ICON recently raised $185 million in a Tiger Global-led round that valued it at “nearly $2 billion.” In 2020, Tesla settled into the so-called Silicon Hills district and Oracle moved its headquarters from Silicon Valley. They are different and that is okay.

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

The Summit welcomed some of the most impressive individuals and organizations in the nonprofit sector, including Boys & Girls Clubs of America , Mary’s Meals, World Central Kitchen, the Ford Foundation, Greenpeace, Save the Children, and more to speak at the event’s global mainstage, in breakout sessions, and on thought leadership panels. .

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Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case

The Verge

Google and Oracle have been fighting over Android’s Java interoperability for more than 10 years now , spanning three trials and two separate appeals. The current incarnation of the case turns on whether Oracle can enforce its copyright over roughly 11,500 lines in Android’s codebase, representing 37 separate APIs.

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