Author Archives: Matthew Lynley

Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts

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After previously investing in Mulesoft, it looks like Salesforce may finish off the deal and is in advanced talks to acquire the data management software provider altogether, according to a report from Reuters this morning. Mulesoft works with companies to bring together different sources of data like varying APIs. That’s important for companies that have data […] Continue reading Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts→

Mythic nets $40M to create a new breed of efficient AI-focused hardware

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Another huge financing round is coming in for an AI company today, this time for a startup called Mythic getting a fresh $40 million as it appears massive deals are closing left and right in the sector. Mythic particularly focuses on the inference side of AI operations — basically making the calculation on the spot […] Continue reading Mythic nets $40M to create a new breed of efficient AI-focused hardware→

Color rolls out a test to try to search for hereditary risk for heart conditions like arrhythmia

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Color is looking to add a new test to its line of genetic testing, this time focusing on hereditary factors that may affect a person’s chance for being prone to cardiovascular complications like arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy. Called the heart health test, Color’s new test looks to isolate the genes that can be partially responsible for […] Continue reading Color rolls out a test to try to search for hereditary risk for heart conditions like arrhythmia→

Bear Flag Robotics wants to sell an autonomous tractor for farms

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Autonomous vehicles are increasingly becoming the shiny object in Silicon Valley. But the opportunity doesn’t just extend to cars driving around the streets of a major metropolitan area, and Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan hope to take it somewhere a little less obvious: the middle of an orchard. Cafiero and Donnellan are building an autonomously-driven tractor […] Continue reading Bear Flag Robotics wants to sell an autonomous tractor for farms→

Qualcomm’s former exec chair will exit after exploring an acquisition bid

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There’s a new twist in the BroadQualm saga this afternoon as Qualcomm has said it won’t renominate Paul Jacobs, the former executive chairman of the company, after he notified the board that he decided to explore the possibility of making a proposal to acquire Qualcomm. The last time we saw such a huge exploration to […] Continue reading Qualcomm’s former exec chair will exit after exploring an acquisition bid→

Enterprise subscription services provider Zuora has filed for an IPO

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Zuora, which helps businesses handle subscription billing and forecasting, filed for an initial public offering this afternoon following on the heels of Dropbox’s filing earlier this month. Zuora’s IPO may signal that Dropbox going public, and seeing a price range that while under its previous valuation seems relatively reasonable, may open the door for coming […] Continue reading Enterprise subscription services provider Zuora has filed for an IPO→

NexGenT wants to rethink bootcamps with programs for network engineering certifications

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Developer bootcamps — several-month training programs that are designed to help people get up to speed with the technical skills they need to become a developer — exploded in popularity in the early part of the decade, but there’s been a bit of a shakedown on the space recently. And that could be a product […] Continue reading NexGenT wants to rethink bootcamps with programs for network engineering certifications→

Equity podcast: Theranos’s reckoning, BroadQualm’s stunning conclusion and Lyft’s platform ambitions

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof and I were joined by Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha, an investor with early connections with Lyft to talk about, well, Lyft — as well as two bombshell news events in the form of an SEC fine for […] Continue reading Equity podcast: Theranos’s reckoning, BroadQualm’s stunning conclusion and Lyft’s platform ambitions→

The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems

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Another massive financing round for an AI chip company is coming in today, this time for SambaNova Systems — a startup founded by a pair of Stanford professors and a longtime chip company executive — to build out the next generation of hardware to supercharge AI-centric operations. SambaNova joins an already quite large class of […] Continue reading The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems→

Airtable raises $52M to give non-coders tools to build complex software

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A massive company probably has plenty of engineers on staff and the resources to build a complex backbone of interconnected information that can contain tons of data and make acting on it easy — but for smaller companies, and for those that aren’t technical, those tools aren’t very accessible. That’s what convinced Howie Liu to […] Continue reading Airtable raises $52M to give non-coders tools to build complex software→