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Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round

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Couchbase. the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round “to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.” The oversubscribed round was led by GPI Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Sorenson Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, […] Continue reading Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round→

Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks

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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Affirmed Networks, a company that specializes in fully virtualized, cloud-native networking solutions for telecom operators. With its focus on 5G and edge computing, Affirmed looks like the ideal acquisition target for a large cloud provider looking to get deeper into the telco business. According to Crunchbase, Affirmed had […] Continue reading Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks→

Crunchbase opens a marketplace for 3rd-party data in bid to be the ‘master database for companies’

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 Last year, when tech-company database Crunchbase (once a part of TechCrunch but since spun out) announced a funding round of $18 million, it previewed plans for a new marketplace where it would sell access to third-party data to supplement its ow… Continue reading Crunchbase opens a marketplace for 3rd-party data in bid to be the ‘master database for companies’→