September 2023

Nx lands $16M to build ‘monorepo’ tools for software devs

September 25, 2023
Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series A round with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and a16z. The funding will be used to expand Nx’s fully managed product, Nx Cloud, to make it more of a […]

VC firm Fuse closes $250M fund to invest in Pacific Northwest startups

September 25, 2023
Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year. From January to March, PNW financing dipped 80% to $246 million, down from $1.2 billion during the same period in 2022. But one venture capital firm is anticipating a recovery. Fuse, a Bellevue, Washington-based early-stage venture outfit focused on PNW companies, today […]

Decade of newborn child registry data stolen in MOVEit mass-hack

September 25, 2023
Ontario’s government-funded birth registry has confirmed a data breach affecting some 3.4 million people who sought pregnancy care, including the personal health data of close to two million newborns and children across the Canadian province. BORN Ontario said in a statement on Monday that hackers copied more than a decade’s worth of data including fertility, […]

Snap partners with Microsoft on ads in its ‘My AI’ chatbot feature

September 25, 2023
Snapchat has a new advertising partner in Microsoft for the ads it’s inserting into its AI product, My AI, an AI chatbot introduced earlier this year to the wider Snapchat user base. The company in May said it would begin testing Sponsored Links in My AI — link suggestions that are paired with the user’s […]

7 Tips To Avoid Burnout As An Entrepreneur

September 25, 2023
Entrepreneurship can be an exhilarating journey, but it’s crucial to acknowledge that burnout is a real and prevalent challenge in this pursuit.