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[Plenty in Business Wire] Plenty VP of Farm Operations Megan Gillespie Receives Woman of Influence Award

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Plenty, the flavor-first vertical farming company with a mission to improve the lives of people, plants, and the planet, today announced company VP of farm operations, Megan Gillespie, has been honored in the San Francisco Business Times 2021 ‘ Women of Influence’ List. The award recognizes women who demonstrate a strong record of innovation and leadership, achieved outstanding performance in business and who are changemakers across the Bay Area. Read...

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Newsletter: The next big tech outage + Our new unicorn

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: NetOp, preventing the next big tech outage Should we work with friends and family? Israel heads for record $20B startup funding in 2021 Hailo becomes unicorn with $136M funding round FDA grants Alpha Tau Breakthrough Device Designation BioCatch protects seniors from cyber fraud McDonald’s cooks up tasty deal with Beyond Meat FDA clears DreaMed’s AI decision platform for type 2 diabetes Introductions More than 3,500 high-tech jobs Startup of the Week:NetOp: Preventing the next big tech outage As last week’s Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram outage revealed so starkly, today’s networks are the essential infrastructure on which every modern business and much of our lives are based. NetOp may have the solution for predicting and helping to remediate the next big global outage. Enterprise networks are now migrating from in-office systems to cloud-based networks-as-a-service, becoming too complex and dynamic for humans to manage alone. Separate vendors and conflicting policies over connectivity and security create conflicts and reduce visibility, resulting in costs estimated at $350B each year. NetOp provides next-generation proactive network operations, using AI-powered automation to...

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