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patpitchaya / Getty Images Heroku has long been held up as the gold-standard platform as a service (PaaS) for software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, while others see it as akin to a magical fallen civilization with a limited future. “The history of IT is littered with platforms people thought were fantastic that don’t exist anymore,” said James Governor, a founder of the developer-focused analyst firm Red...

David Siegel, co-founder of Two Sigma Investments. (Misha Friedman/Bloomberg) Not one to sit on its quantitative laurels, hedge fund firm Two Sigma has launched its first Impact Fund and is raising money for a new venture capital fund.According to an investor, Two Sigma has raised $425 million in its first close for the Two Sigma Impact Fund-A, LP. It To continue reading, subscribe now to Premium Journalism. Already a subscriber? Login. Related Content

AlleyWatch March 2021 was the single best month for NYC startup funding in history. These companies led the funding charge with 16 mega ($100M) rounds between them, raising $3.5B in aggregate during the month. Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New York during March 2021.  I have included some additional information such as industry, description, round type, total equity funding raised to further the analysis for the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Two Sigma Investments plans to ask staff to return to the office in September and will experiment with a hybrid model that allows them to work remotely two days a week.Employees should expect the change to take effect after Labor Day, “but that’s going to depend on the science, the availability of vaccines, and schools opening, global regulations,” Two Sigma Chief Technology Officer Jeff Wecker said Monday during the AI and Data Science in Trading conference.T...

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PHOTO: stockfotocz Progress, a digital customer experience software provider, has announced the latest release of the Progress Sitefinity Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Sitefinity 13.3. New to this update is Progress long-term support for Sitefinity, which gives customers four years or more of extended version support. Company officials said the updated software also provides streamlined developer tooling and advanced analytics, personalization and optimization. Specifically, the software...

Investment Firm KKR Acquiring California’s Integrated Specialty Coverages March 8, 2021 Global investment firm KKR is acquiring a majority interest in Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC) Carlsbad, Calif.-based multi-line insurance distributor that utilizes advanced artificial intelligence (AI) engineering and data analytics to build its products. Sightway Capital, a Two Sigma private equity business that partnered with ISC beginning in 2018, is selling its...

phaisarn2517 / Getty Images As cloud computing, containerization, devops, and microservice architectures have established themselves as the building blocks for modern application development, the need for a simple way to manage those resources for internal software developer teams has become more and more important. At many elite engineering organizations—think Google, Netflix, and Amazon—internal developer platforms (IDPs) ease the operations load on their devops teams, whil...

Northern Trust selected by Osmosis to support fossil fuel-free fund Asset servicing solutions to support launch and distribution strategy for $2 billion sustainable investment manager. March 3, 2021 2:49 PM GMT Northern Trust has been selected by Osmosis Investment Management to provide fund administration, global custody and depositary services for its new fossil fuel-free UCITS Common Contractual Fund (CCF).  The strategy, which Osmosis developed amid growing investor appetite to re...

Fintech startup Finix closes on $3M in Black and Latinx investor-led SPV Many founders talk about their desire for a more diverse investor base. Richie Serna took that desire and made it a reality. Serna, who founded payments infrastructure startup Finix in 2016, had raised more than $95 million in venture funding from the likes of Lightspeed Venture Partners, American Express Ventures, Homebrew, Precursor Ventures, Insight Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Visa and Activant Capital. The San Fra...