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The role of HR professionals grew in scope during the pandemic as companies were forced to navigate major workplace changes, like working from home. Unsurprisingly, those professionals have had some of the highest burnout rates over the past two years, particularly as HR departments remain under-resourced. According to an August survey from Workvivo, an employee […]Humaans raises $15M to simplify...

Another major piece of mobile M&A appears to be in the works in the UK. Today, Vodafone confirmed that it was in merger discussions with Three UK, a carrier owned by CK Hutchison, to accelerate their 5G rollout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Created by developer who needed to test apps at scale, TestGrid is an on-demand platform that lets users run tests on websites and apps across browsers, operating systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Pigment has raised a new round of funding less than a year after raising a $73 million Series B round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Although today’s rocket engines are advanced and powerful, they tend to rely on traditional — and naturally volatile — fuels like hydrazine or liquid oxygen and kerosene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Stockly is raising a $12 million Series A round (€12 million) from Eurazeo, Daphni and several business angels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AmazeVR, a Los Angeles-based virtual concert platform, said Tuesday it has raised a $17 million funding round to create immersive music experiences through virtual reality (VR) concerts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a world of climate change-fueled food shortages, insect-based proteins are being viewed as an increasingly valuable potential alternative food service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Shaw likes running around. The serial entrepreneur joined activity and fitness tracking platform Strava as a co-founder in 2009 to lead engineering as CTO. He spent eight years there, and as of its most recent raise in 2020, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Checkmate's shopping tool gathers all the online discount codes, gift cards and personalized deals from your inbox and automatically applies them at checkout. Checkmate captures all of your shopping deals so you don’t have to by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chaos engineering was originally developed at large companies to help them pressure test systems in production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A cloud kitchen — also known as a ghost kitchen or a shared kitchen — offers restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs a commercial kitchen space at a reduced cost for food delivery and takeout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Keeping up with tax compliance for cryptocurrency can be tricky, especially since many laws are new (or haven’t been written yet). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Bump has signed a multi-year financing partnership with DIF Capital Partners in order to roll out more charging stations for electric vehicles and double down on growth in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Leoparda Electric, a São Paolo–based startup, wants to be the Gogoro of Latin America. In other words, it’s looking to build out a network of battery swapping stations that should help spread adoption of electric two-wheelers in the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For more than half a decade, Zopper built a platform for small and medium-sized businesses, helping merchants with invoicing and payments through its point-of-sale platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A group of former Meta engineers is building a platform to help enterprises deploy machine learning models at the speed of big tech companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Video of a sidewalk delivery robot crossing yellow caution tape and rolling through a crime scene in Los Angeles went viral this week, amassing more than 650,000 views on Twitter and sparking debate about whether the technology is ready for prime time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a town hall to some members of their community, Launch House addressed the harassment and assault allegations surfaced by a Vox Investigation earlier this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices