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Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. Continue reading Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field
Buildots’ technology automatically validates images captured by hardhat-mounted 360-degree cameras, detecting any gaps between the original design and what’s actually happening on construction sites. Continue reading Buildots raises $30M to put eyes on construction sites
Blameless’ platform provides the context, guardrails and automated workflows so engineering teams are unified in the way they communicate and interact while building their software systems. Continue reading Blameless raises $30M to guide companies through their software lifecycle
Netskope, focused on Secure Access Service Edge architecture, announced Friday a $300 million investment round on a post-money valuation of $7.5 billion. Continue reading Cloud security platform Netskope boosts valuation to $7.5B following $300M raise
Robotic process automation has become buzzy in the last few months. New York-based UiPath is on course to launch an initial public offering after gaining an astounding valuation of $35 billion in February. Over in China, homegrown RPA startup Laiye is making waves as well. Laiye, which develops software to mimic mundane workplace tasks like […] Continue reading Laiye, China’s answer to UiPath, closes $50 million Series C+
Aqua Security, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based security startup that focuses squarely on securing cloud-native services, today announced that it has raised a $135 million Series E funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by ION Crossover Partners. Existing investors M12 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Greenspring Associates […] Continue reading Aqua Security raises $135M at a $1B valuation for its cloud native security service
As demand for cloud native applications is growing, Yugabyte, makers of the cloud native, open source YugabyteDB database are seeing a corresponding rise in demand for their products, especially with large enterprise customers. Today, the company announced a $48 million Series C financing round to help build on that momentum. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the […] Continue reading Yugabyte announces $48M Series C as cloud native database makes enterprise push
This week on Extra Crunch Live, the duo explained how they came together for Grafana’s Series A — and eventually, its Series B. We’ve included highlights as well as the full video of our conversation. Continue reading Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative
Many founders only know their own experience fundraising and don’t hear much about what other founders went through. On Extra Crunch Live today, we’re going to remedy that. Grafana Labs has raised upward of $75 million since it launched in 2014. Lightspeed Venture Partners, and partner Gaurav Gupta to be specific, led both the startup’s […] Continue reading Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana Labs’ Raj Dutt will tell us why they financially tied the knot (twice!)
Streaming data is not new. Kafka has existed as an open source tool for a decade. Vectorized was founded on the premise that the existing tools were too complex and not designed for today’s streaming requirements. Today the company released its first product, Redpanda, an open source tool designed to make it easier for developers […] Continue reading Vectorized announces $15.5M investment to build simpler streaming data tool