In a world where the speed, security, and reliability of applications are foundational to their very existence, how do SaaS providers ensure these basic needs are met?

This has profound implications not only for marketers and advertisers but also for webdevelopers and SaaS providers.

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are the most common ways for SaaS providers to deal with these challenges.

But solving for speed is only one dimension to the multi-faceted problem that faces global SaaS providers today.

By ensuring that a site’s signature matches its record, DNS resolvers can authenticate the origin of the data being sent from the DNS server. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574454607.102453/How-SaaS-companies-can-ensure-their-apps-are-fast,-safe,-and-reliable?ref=audio_experience

Happy Friday everyone,My week was sadly dominated by the influx of tips I had coming in around layoffs in the cannabis industry .

And last, a slew of US cannabis companies including Green Thumb Industries and Curaleaf, or MSOs in industry parlance, reported earnings this week.

-JeremyHere's what we wrote about this week:More layoffs are hitting the cannabis industry.

The California cannabis company Canndescent laid off 16 employees on September 5, according to a memo obtained by Business Insider.

Capital raises, M&A activity, partnerships, and launchesUS cannabis company Acreage Holdings announced an agreement to acquire the Compassionate Care Foundation, a New Jersey nonprofit cannabis corporation. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574452805.1894624/CULTIVATED:-Layoffs-hit-Canndescent,-KPMG-rakes-in-millions-from-cannabis-companies,-and-more.?ref=audio_experience

Part 2 of a 7-part series on the Net Terms EconomyLast week we took a 30,000 foot view of the Net Terms Economy and saw how both buyers and sellers in the B2B world are facing tough challenges.

Fundbox, a leading fintech company, says one of the biggest challenges of the Net Terms Economy is it leaves $3.1 trillion in outstanding invoices on the table.

And, regardless of qualifying a buyer for net terms and the agreement to pay on time, at the end of the day, sellers are still hurt by offering net terms because it locks up their cash flow that could be used to accelerate growth.

But getting paid late is not the only challenge sellers living in the Net Terms Economy face.

Next up: we’ll look at the challenges faced by buyers living in a Net Terms Economy. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574451008.8047416/The-Challenges-of-Offering-Net-Terms?ref=audio_experience

MontyCloud's new offering is an AI-driven SaaS platform that simplifies management and governance of modern cloud infrastructure, applications and services.

MontyCloud deeply integrates with the native capabilities of the most popular cloud platforms, providing policy-driven, application-centric and consistent management across all of a customer's cloud environments.

"MontyCloud helps customers efficiently manage their cloud-based applications providing policy-based management and governance consistently across all of their cloud environments."

Provisioning: Enables customers to self-serve provisioning while insuring compliance with desired policies.

MontyCloud's platform is extensible and integrates with popular frameworks and solutions allowing customers to gain the benefits of the MontyCloud platform while leveraging existing content and skills. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574449207.215957/MontyCloud-Secures-$2.85M-Seed-Round?ref=audio_experience

There are many people who buy gadgets like Kindle to read eBooks.

But there are even more people who have smartphones and read eBooks on it.

eBooks are the most convenient way for people who are too busy to read books.

Importance of eBooksEasy to write: eBooks are much easier to write and publish than traditional physical books.

Also Read: How to Create Quality ContentConclusionYou can sell your eBooks or provide them free to connect with your customers. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574447407.8167102/Everything-You-Should-Know-About-eBooks?ref=audio_experience

The event brought together international tech talent and tech companies, with the goal of connecting talent with their dream job within just six weeks.

Calgary leads in cleantechThere’s often a strange disconnect when people talk about the traditional oil and gas sector vs. tech.

My close-up take on the Calgary tech sectorWhile Calgary’s tech hub has some excellent potential, it shares the big challenge of Canada’s other innovation centres: access to talent.

There’s a lot of energy going into developing Calgary’s tech talent pipeline — and we’re proud to be part of that.

VanHack has the biggest global tech talent pool of any tech recruiter, at over 100,000+ and counting. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574445605.6302576/Building-a-pipeline-to-tech-talent-in-Calgary?ref=audio_experience

That’s the vision behind Alitheon, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that raised $11.6 million as part of a seed round.

But instead of taking photos, the system creates a kind of digital fingerprint for each individual object.

The FeaturePrint is essentially an “immutable digital link between the physical object and the digital world,” said Alitheon CEO Scot Land.

Ross co-founded Alitheon with Land, a former Microsoft director who also co-founded InVision Technologies and was a portfolio manager at Encompass LLC.

Former INRIX chief financial officer Jim Beach is the chief financial officer of Alitheon. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574443805.22471/The-new-barcode?-Alitheon-lands-$11.6M-for-tech-that-assigns-digital-fingerprints-to-objects?ref=audio_experience

Tweet ATLANTA, GA, Leading provider of guest engagement software for restaurants, announced today that it has raised a $4.5 million Series A.

Popmenu, bootstrapped for its first 18 months, has raised $6 million in total capital to date.

"We hear from many clients that since launching they have captured more direct reviews via Popmenu than are being added across the major third-party platforms combined," said Tony Roy, President and co-founder of Popmenu.

"Popmenu has made tremendous progress over the last year, and we're excited to support their vision to help restaurants better engage and interact with customers," said Dollaku, Partner at Base10.

Popmenu is helping drive the future of restaurant guest engagement by taking a revolutionary approach with our patent-pending, cloud-based, dynamic, interactive platform. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574442006.8328116/Popmenu-Raises-$4.5M-Series-A-Round?ref=audio_experience

ColdQuanta, Inc., a Boulder, CO-based quantum atomics company, closed a $10M additional seed round equity financing.

This brings the total investment in the seed round to $16.75M.

The funding will be used to advance the development of the company’s cold atom Quantum Core™ technology, the foundation for the development of quantum computers and real-time quantum signal processing and positioning systems.

Led by Bo Ewald, CEO, ColdQuanta leverages Quantum Core™ technology which uses ultra-cold atoms cooled to a temperature of nearly absolute zero using lasers to manipulate and control the atoms with precision.

Based on its Quantum Core technology, the company manufactures components, instruments, and systems that address a broad spectrum of applications ranging from timekeeping and navigation to quantum computing, and from radiofrequency (RF) receivers to quantum communications systems. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574440209.0119216/ColdQuanta-Closes-$10M-Seed-Financing-Round?ref=audio_experience

Ryerson University and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) have announced that five startups have been selected to join the second cohort of the jointly-led Future of Sport Lab accelerator program.

“We are looking forward to working with such a range of dynamic startups from across North America.”ProWire, Zone7, Mission Control, Feidao, and StreamLayer, were chosen from a pool of sport tech startups from around the world, with only one Canadian-founded company.

“It is wonderful to see such innovation in the sport tech sector,” said Cheri Bradish, director of the Future of Sport Lab.

The Future of Sport Lab is aimed to be a hub joining Canadian sports industry partners to entrepreneurs, faculty, and students.

“We are proud of [the Future of Sport Lab], as it continues to drive innovation in the sports and entertainment industry from Toronto. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574438405.7408588/Five-new-startups-join-Ryerson,-MLSE’s-sport-tech-accelerator?ref=audio_experience