Invite-only Twitter alternative Bluesky tops 1M downloads across iOS and Android

Today, Threads again dominated the news cycle, but Twitter rival Bluesky was not about to take it lying down. The social media platform hit its first 1 million installs, of which 300,000 were done since June 30, when Twitter initially limited the number of tweets users could view each day.

More on Threads:

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Nokod Security’s $8M seed deck

Low-code and no-code startups lowered the bar for developing new applications, but managing sensitive systems with off-the-shelf parts can create security concerns.

Nokod Security recently raised an $8 million seed round to scale its service, which monitors “apps for security vulnerabilities and mitigate breaches,” writes Haje Jan Kamps, who obtained the partially redacted pitch deck they used:

• Cover slide
• Team slide
• Example no-code apps
• “Who uses no-code apps”
• Macro trend: The Low-Code / No Code trend
• Threats and attacks slide
• Problem slide
• Threats and attacks slide
• Attack vectors slide
• Mission slide
• Solution slide
• Architecture slide
• TAM slide 1
• TAM slide 2
• TAM slide 3
• Go-to-market slide
• Competition slide
• Validation slide
• (Redacted) Validation takeaways slide
• Timeline slide
• Contact slide

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