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| 13.10.2024 | Navigating the IVR Landscape: Testing and Recording for Success | In the world of customer service, the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system is a double-edged sword. It can either enhance the customer experience or turn it into a frustrating ordeal. The key lies in how well these systems are tested and... |
| 11.10.2024 | Is Automated IVR Testing Reliable? Yes, With Oversight | Companies should conduct IVR testing routinely to ensure that their Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system is fully functional. Problems with IVR functionality, user experience, or load handling are going to result in immediate problems fo... |
| 16.06.2024 | Построение надёжных систем из ненадёжных агентов | Большие языковые модели можно применять для разных практических целей. Одно из самых интересных направлений — это автономные AI-агенты. Если сгенерировать большое количество агентов по заданному запросу и заставить их конкурировать друг с д... |
| 31.10.2023 | Топ 5 QA-метрик для улучшения качества тестирования | В чем ценность QA-метрик? Есть ли смысл тратить усилия на измерение, анализ, проверку, а затем на принятие действий в соответствии с полученными результатами? Тип и необходимость QA-метрик изменились с популярностью и широким распространени... |
| 19.11.2019 | Build trust with remote users to get qualitative feedback | Alex Gold Contributor
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Alex Gold is co-founder of Myia, an intelligent health platform employing novel biometric data to predict and prevent costly medical events. Previously, Alex was Venture Partner at BCG Digital Ventures... |
| 17.10.2018 | Q&A with Fred Stevens-Smith, Cofounder of Rainforest | We put together a list of the top YC companies by valuation as of October 2018. You can see that list at https://ycombinator.com/topcompanies.
Here’s a Q&A with Fred Stevens-Smith, Cofounder of Rainforest, one of the companies featured... |
| 17.04.2018 | What our company learned from working remotely for a week | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Distributed teams are on the rise. The number of ... |
| 17.04.2018 | What our company learned from working remotely for a week | Distributed teams are on the rise. The number of employees who work remotely more than doubled between 2005 and 2015, and there’s evidence that people who work from home can be more productive than those in the office. Hiring remote workers... |
| 24.01.2018 |
Rincon Ventures Backs Rainforest QA In $25M Round
| Santa Barbara-based venture capital investment firm Rincon Ventures is part of a new funding round for quality assurance software developer Rainforest QA. Rainforest QA said this week that it has raised $25M in a Series B funding, which cam... |
| 23.01.2018 | Rainforest QA Raises $25M in Series B Funding | Rainforest QA, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of on-demand quality assurance (QA) solutions, raised $25m in Series B funding.
Backers included Silicon Valley Bank, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Capital, Rincon Ventures, and Ini... |
| 23.01.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, January 23 | LPs WAKE UP
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In a new feature, my colleague Michal Lev-Ram delves into the inner-workings of Aspect Ventures, a rare gender-balanced VC firm. “O... |
| 23.01.2018 | Rainforest QA raises $25M to automate quality assurance | The company has grown its revenue by over 3,000% in the last three years
When it comes to quality assurance, the traditional approach is to either do it in-house, outsource it, or bet on the promise of test automation tools, but none of tho... |
| 23.01.2018 | Rainforest QA Raises $25M Series B from BVP | SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rainforest QA, the leader in on-demand quality assurance (QA) solutions, today announced it raised $25 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $41.2 million. Silicon Valley Bank, ... |
| 23.01.2018 | Rainforest QA rakes in $25 million Series B to expand on-demand software testing biz | Rainforest QA, an on-demand software QA service, announced a $25 million Series B investment today.
Silicon Valley Bank, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Capital, Rincon Ventures and Initialized Capital all participated in the round. ... |
| 21.01.2018 | «Я хотела быть как Маск — вкалывать по 100 часов». Топ-60 честных советов от выпускников Y Combinator разных лет
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| 20.01.2018 | A candid take on the future of AI and job automation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As automation and AI continue to transform busine... |
| 12.01.2018 | Advice for First Time Founders | We operate a platform called Bookface for YC founders to connect with each other, ask questions, find intros, and share advice. Recently on Bookface Zach Dixon, cofounder of the gaming company Players’ Lounge (W18), asked a great question:
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| 28.07.2016 | Rainforest QA releases Rainforest Mobile | The QA-as-a-Service company wants to streamline mobile app testing
When dealing with quality assurance, especially for mobile and web apps, most teams go with in-house QA or outsource it to teams who specialize in it. The problem with these... |
| 05.05.2016 | How Rainforest turned a 'bad idea' into $16 million raised | Now employs 58,000 testers around the world
Rainforest started back in 2012, but its core product just wasn't attracting the attention needed to sustain a business. The service monitored company spending on Amazon Web Service (AWS). General... |
| 26.02.2016 |
Rincon Backs Software QA Developer
| Santa Barbara-based venture investor Rincon Venture Partners is one of the investors in San Francisco-based Rainforest QA, which recently announced a $12M, Series A funding. Rainforest QA develops tools to help automate software quality ass... |
| 17.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 17, 2016 | Sprout Social landed $42M; Vitagene raised $5.5M; PokitDok received funding from Mckesson Ventures
PokitDok, a cloud-based API platform designed to make healthcare transactions more efficient and streamline the business of health, and the w... |
| 17.02.2016 | Rainforest QA Raises $12M in Series A Funding | Rainforest QA, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a QA-as-a-Service platform, raised $12m in Series A funding.
The round was led by BVP with participation from Rincon Venture Partners, Industry Ventures and Salesforce founder Marc Beniof... |
| 17.02.2016 | Rainforest QA Raises $12M in Series A Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Company replacing the QA team with a QA-as-a-Service platform, today announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Rainforest
>> To export Rainforest fundi... |
| 21.12.2015 | Why Startups Will Dominate The AI-Powered Apps Landscape | Michael Yamnitsky Contributor
Michael Yamnitsky is venture partner at NYC-based venture fund Work-Bench.
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| 04.11.2015 | Party Like It’s 1849: The Developer Tools Gold Rush | Lenny Pruss Contributor
Lenny Pruss is a principal at Redpoint Ventures. He writes about the business of developers on Memory Leak.
“You can’t make money selling to developers.”
That was a common axiom that permeated the venture community a... |
| 13.02.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/13/15 | AppDirect, Pursuit, Jet, WedPics, Laurel & Wolf, Sigfox, Soothe, Reserve, TrueFacet, Capital Float
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Pursuit Vascular, the maker of a preventive medical device for catheter-related bloodstream infections, raised $1.6 million in... |
| 10.02.2015 | Rainforest Raises $4M in Seed Funding | Rainforest, a San Francisco, CA-based Quality Assurance-as-a-service company, raised $4m in seed funding.
Backers included Storm Ventures, Rincon, Andreessen Horowitz, Morado, and Crosslink.
The company intends to use the funds to grow oper... |
| 10.02.2015 | Rainforest Raises $4M To Build Scalable QA | Quality assurance testing is a problem that can quickly escalate beyond the resources of startups and often requires entire divisions at larger companies. It’s increasingly easy to build apps with more functionality, powered by more sources... |
| 13.10.2014 | Heroku founder: Y Combinator developer tools request is a very big deal | While it might not seem so to outsiders, Y Combinator’s new Developer Tools Request for Startups (RFS) is a big deal. (Editor’s note: The deadline to apply is tomorrow.) This is a request from one of the biggest tech incubators for startups... |
| 11.12.2013 | Rainforest (YC S12) lets dev teams run plain-English QA tests on-demand with help from the crowd | Rainforest, a Y Combinator company, has developed an on-demand service that runs functional tests against a crowd of people through Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform. The service is similar to how a customer can use Amazon We... |
| 10.12.2013 | Rainforest Launches On Demand Service That Uses API To Spin Up QA Testers For Web Sites And Apps | Rainforest, a Y Combinator company, has developed an on-demand service that runs functional tests against a crowd of people through Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform. The service is similar to how a customer can use Amazon We... |
