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WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service
When the open source streaming service Apache Kafka was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of cloud computing…
DatologyAI is building tech to automatically curate AI training datasets
Massive training datasets are the gateway to powerful AI models — but often, also those models’ downfall. Biases emerge from prejudicial patterns concealed in large datasets, like pictures of mostly…
Motif Analytics brings sequence analytics to growth teams
Motif Analytics, a startup specializing in sequence analytics for growth teams, today announced that it has raised a $5.7 million seed funding round led by Felicis and Amplify Partners. InvestInData…
Microservices orchestration platform Temporal raises $75M and remains a unicorn
Temporal, an open source microservices orchestration platform used by companies, including Netflix, Snap and Comcast, has raised $75 million from a slew of high-profile investors including Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks.…
Eppo, a product experimentation platform, raises $19.5M for expansion
Despite the demand for platforms that let developers experiment with different versions of apps, the infrastructure required remains relatively complex to build. Beyond data pipelines and statistical methods, an experimentation…
Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices
When Fermyon’s founders were working at Microsoft, they helped build a lot of cloud native technologies. They noted that the development process, particularly around Kubernetes, was complex and developers often…
AI platform Continual raises $14.5M Series A and comes out of beta
Continual, a startup that focuses on simplifying operational AI on top of a modern data stack, today announced that it has raised a $14.5 million Series A funding round led…
Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta Stone’ for database languages
When it comes to building databases and other backend software development, different organizations and developers do not always speak the same language. Today a startup called Prisma that’s built a…
ReadySet raises $29M to expedite access to enterprise-scale app data
ReadySet, a company providing database infrastructure to help developers build real-time applications, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by Index Ventures with…
Continual, a startup that aims to bring operational AI to the modern data warehouse-centric data stack, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Amplify…
Chainguard lands $5M to help companies secure their software supply chains
By late last year, the alarm bells were just starting to ring. Researchers discovered that Russian spies had months earlier burrowed deep into the networks of several U.S. federal networks.…
Suborbital, the company behind the open source Atmo WebAssembly-centric project for building scalable server applications, today announced that it has raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Amplify Partners.…
Customer data startup Hightouch grabs third funding round in 12 months
Accelerated inbound attention had investors reaching out to both the company and its customers though Hightouch was not fundraising.
OctoML raises $85M for it for its machine learning acceleration platform
OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised an $85 million Series C round led by Tiger Global…
Scribe launches knowledge-capturing software that gets employees on the same page
It’s software records a process with movement and clicks, then converts all of that into a step-by-step guide with screenshots and text that is editable and shareable.
Hex lands $5.5M seed to help data scientists share data across the company
As companies embrace the use of data, hiring more data scientists, a roadblock persists around sharing that data. It requires too much copying and pasting and manual work. Hex, a…
OctoML raises $28M Series B for its machine learning acceleration platform
OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform built on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project, today announced that it has raised a $28…
Several years ago Serenade co-founder Matt Wiethoff was a developer at Quora when he was diagnosed with a severe repetitive stress injury to his hand and couldn’t code. He and…
Fishtown Analytics raises $29.5M Series B for its data engineering platform
Fishtown Analytics, the Philadelphia-based company behind the dbt open-source data engineering tool, today announced that it has raised a $29.5 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation…
Sym, a new platform that makes it easier for developers to integrate security and privacy workflows into their process, today announced that it has raised a $9 million Series A…
Temporal raises $18.75M for its microservices orchestration platform
Temporal, a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised an $18.75 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Existing…
PicnicHealth raises $25 million for its patient health record management service
PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real-world data, has just raised…
Maze raises $2 million and adds Figma support to enable user testing at scale
Maze wants to reinvent usability tests by letting you turn design prototypes into tests in just a few clicks. It could become the equivalent of a developing test suite for…
Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray-distributed computing project, launches with $20.6M led by a16z
Open source has become a critical building block of modern software, and today a new startup is coming out of stealth to capitalise on one of the newer frontiers in…
Fastly pops in public offering showing that there’s still money for tech IPOs
Shares of Fastly, the service that’s used by websites to ensure that they can load faster, have popped in its first hours of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.…
Welcome back to the TechCrunch transportation newsletter; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is the second edition and seriously people, what happened this week? Too…
Amplify Partners locks in $200 million to transform technical founders into people who can actually lead a startup
Sunil Dhaliwal has had a solid run in his 20 years so far as a VC. Just two years out of Georgetown, Dhaliwal landed at Battery Ventures, a highly regarded…
Fastly raises another $50 million for its content delivery networking technology
Content delivery company Fastly has raised $50 million in financing to expand its footprint as a corporate supplier of speedy application, website, and web service delivery. In its press release, Fastly…
Rules governing the use of food delivery robots remain to be seen across the US. But major food businesses are investigating the possibilities already. In the latest deal, Yelp Eat24…
