Weed Out Risky Code
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Creating Ambient Awareness. Working remotely often means back-to-back scheduled meetings and a constant barrage of text and email notifications. The result is exhaustion. But that doesn’t mean coworkers don’t want to talk to one another. Ad-hoc conversations are energizing and foster stronger team connections, which is why Remotion built a video workspace designed to enable colleagues to virtually “glance over” at one another and just start talking. Remotion CEO & co-founder Alexander Embiricos shares how remote teams are using the video chat tool as a faster, easier, & more natural way to stay connected. Hear more on the latest #greymatter with Greylock partner Sarah Guo. (Greymatter)
Weed out risky code. Greylock announced our seed and series A investment in apiiro, which launched out of stealth and announced their Code Risk Platform. apiiro’s platform enables enterprises to accelerate application and infrastructure delivery by automatically remediating risk with every change. (Forbes, Blog)
Modern Financial Tools For Consumers. Here in the U.S. the finance sector, we’ve seen a boom in consumer financial technology companies that modernize the way people save, spend, and invest. Yet in neighboring Canada, the consumer financial sector continues to largely be dominated by a handful of legacy financial institutions. These institutions haven’t changed much in decades — they have high costs, opaque fee structures, and have been slow to leverage technology to modernize the way they engage customers. General partner David Thacker announced Greylock’s investment in Wealthsimple. (Blog)
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