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From the beginning, the Glossier team set out to build a great technology company. Creating a beauty brand was of course also necessary, but that almost seemed like table stakes, per Bryan Mahoney, Glossier’s Chief Technology Officer.

Founded in 2012, Compass has secured a total of $1.2 billion in venture funding, per CrunchBase, which includes a $400 million round in September 2018 at a $4.4 billion valuation.

Based in Los Angeles, GOAT is the largest marketplace for buying and selling authenticated sneakers.

For the people and companies producing today’s ever-evolving content, the challenge has increasingly become more complicated than delivering it in a single form. Today’s content needs to be dynamic and adaptable to meet consumers where they are, through whatever device they’re currently plugged into. “Successful companies now really try to stay directly in contact with the customers through ever-evolving content and experiences,” explains Johannes Würbach, senior back-end engineer at Contentful, which provides content infrastructure for developers and content creators.

The hotel industry has existed since the beginning of the 19th century, and like many centuries-old industries, getting up to speed with modern tech can be challenging. That’s why companies like Revinate have sprung up to help hoteliers identify their best customers and transform guest data into revenue.

Guest post by Tomaz Berisa, Cofounder and CTO at Gencove We have been working hard to scale low-pass sequencing at Gencove and ran into a few computational scalability constraints. This is an overview of how we got around them and the resulting architecture, complete with infrastructure templates and code. Sequencing the first human genome in […]

Another startup bringing innovation to the changing industry is Metail, a developer of technology that enables users to virtually try on clothes and easily switch between potential outfit combinations.

Data integration is the key to unlocking better engagement. Hull, a customer data platform created to assist data engineers, syncs data from multiple silos into one unified database.

It’s vital for the whole organization to experience and support data culture, rather than just the experts. Dataiku (a portmanteau of data and haiku) is a software company that lowers the skill level needed to develop projects using analytical AI.

Unexpected issues can impact travel plans. Roofstreet, an AI built to predict travel routes, informs users of incidents along their travel lines ahead of time.