Abigail Barrow

In honour of National Grief Awareness Week — because grief isn’t always after the loss 4 seconds ago When your parent is terminally ill, everything you decide to do in your life is instantly affected. How long should you go away on holiday for? When should you move out of your family home? Do you take that ‘big girl’ job or wait a bit longer? Whether you want it to or not, your brain needs to justify everything.

San Diego-based AttackIQ, a cybersecurity startup providing a Web-based platform for assessing network defenses, has finally closed its Series A round of founding, after raising a total of $8.8 million over the past three years, according to co-founder and CEO Stephan Chenette. Institutional investors included San Francisco-based Index Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Telstra Ventures.

In the cutthroat game of recruiting, companies are constantly eyeing the competition. Textio, a Seattle startup using machine learning to help improve the performance and reduce the bias of job listings, is taking the lid off a massive data trove it has amassed over the last two years to help its customers see how they stack up.