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Closed early-access product Relay raises $5M seed round to ‘tackle collaborative workflows’ • TechCrunch

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Closed early-access product Relay raises $5M seed round to 'tackle collaborative workflows' • TechCrunch

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Automation Country: Jacob Bank knows what time it is. Paul writes that after selling his last startup to Google in 2015, Bank returned to Relay, a tool that wanted to help people step back in time by automating routine tasks, especially when it comes to the task we all hate – meetings.
“Bring Your Ideas to Life”: Microsoft’s Ignite Conference took place today (get important information in Big Tech Inc.), and Kyle has been closely following all things DALL-E, including Microsoft’s investment in AI-powered systems for their new Designer and Image Creator tools.
Deep cut: Spanish Reports on the latest news to India’s tech giant Byju, which said today it will shed another large amount of jobs, this time 2,500, writing that the move is in an effort to “delete the jobs.” debt and other balances in recent months”.

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Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, an open-source project that aims to make it easier for developers to build microservices on Kubernetes. Diagrid has raised $24 million to launch a fully managed tool Dapr Services, Frederic report.

DataGrail has always been focused on helping companies comply with the world’s growing privacy regulations. Today, it’s building on that with a new automated risk monitoring solution that helps companies build third-party application risk assessments quickly. While they’re at it, the startup also announced a $45 million Series C investment, Ron report.

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