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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911.

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Report: Clearlake Capital Seeks To Sell Perforce

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Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital is hoping to sell one of its portfolio companies, Perforce Software , for around $2 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg over the weekend. Perforce has been owned by Clearlake Capital since January of 2018. Bloomberg did not name possible buyers for Perforce.

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TuSimple Takes $95M For Autonomous Trucking Technology

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TuSimple , a developer of autonomous trucking technology which has offices in San Diego and in China, said on Wednesday that it has raised $95M in a Series D funding round. and Composite Capital. The funding came from Chinese investors SINA Corp. TuSimple says it has now raised a total of $178M. The company was founded in 2015.

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HealthTensor Collects $5M For AI-Powered Medical Decisions

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Los Angeles-based nstartup HealthTensor, which is developing artificial intelligence (AI) software aimed at helping to augment medical decision making, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $5M in a seed funding round. HealthTEnsor said it will use the funding to scale its software engineering and implementation team.

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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The firm said it has brought its Series A up to $2.1M, and added new investors Conversion Capital, Inflection Ventures, The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). cloud software management deal room data capital venture caplinked' READ MORE>>.

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No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School

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There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.