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VC’s largest funds make big bets on vertical B2B marketplaces

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During the waning days of the first dot-com boom, some of the biggest names in venture capital invested in marketplaces and directories whose sole function was to consolidate information and foster transparency in industries that had remained opaque for decades. The thesis was that thousands of small businesses were making specialized products consumed by larger […] Continue reading VC’s largest funds make big bets on vertical B2B marketplaces→

Tecton.ai emerges from stealth with $20M Series A to build machine learning platform

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Three former Uber engineers, who helped build the company’s Michelangelo machine learning platform, left the company last year to form Tecton.ai and build an operational machine learning platform for everyone else. Today the company announced a $20 million Series A from a couple of high-profile investors. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital co-led the round with […] Continue reading Tecton.ai emerges from stealth with $20M Series A to build machine learning platform→

China Roundup: Enterprise tech gets a lasting boost from coronavirus outbreak

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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, a post from Sequoia Capital sounding the alarm of the coronavirus’s impact on businesses is reaching far corners of tech communities around the world, […] Continue reading China Roundup: Enterprise tech gets a lasting boost from coronavirus outbreak→

Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2)

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The once-polarizing world of open-source software has recently become one of the hotter destinations for VCs. As the popularity of open source increases among organizations and developers, startups in the space have reached new heights and monstrous valuations. Over the past several years, we’ve seen surging open-source companies like Databricks reach unicorn status, as well […] Continue reading Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2)→

Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more

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Software will eat the world, as the saying goes, but in doing so, some developers are likely to get a little indigestion. That is to say, building products requires working with disparate and distributed teams, and while developers may have an ever-growing array of algorithms, APIs and technology at their disposal to do this, ironically […] Continue reading Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more→

Figma’s Community lets designers share and remix live files

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As designers grow both in sheer numbers and within the hierarchy of organizations, design tool makers are adapting to their evolving needs in different ways. Figma, the web-based collaborative design tool, is taking a note from the engineering revolution of the early aughts. “What if there were a GitHub for designers?” mused Dylan Field, early […] Continue reading Figma’s Community lets designers share and remix live files→

Snowflake co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise

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When it comes to a cloud success story, Snowflake checks all the boxes. It’s a SaaS product going after industry giants. It has raised bushels of cash and grown extremely rapidly — and the story is continuing to develop for the cloud data lake company. In September, Snowflake’s co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville […] Continue reading Snowflake co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise→

Armis nabs $65M Series C as IoT security biz grows in leaps and bounds

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Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it’s apparently a problem that is resonating with the market, as the startup reports 700 percent growth in the last year. That caught the attention of investors, who awarded them with a $65 million Series C investment to help keep […] Continue reading Armis nabs $65M Series C as IoT security biz grows in leaps and bounds→

SoftBank Vision Fund leads $250M Series D for Cohesity’s hyperconverged data platform

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San Jose-based Cohesity has closed an oversubscribed $250M Series D funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund, bringing its total raised to date to $410M. The enterprise software company offers a hyperconverged data platform for storing and managing all the secondary data created outside of production apps. In a press release today it notes this […] Continue reading SoftBank Vision Fund leads $250M Series D for Cohesity’s hyperconverged data platform→

Drift raises $60 million to be an Amazon for businesses

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When you’re raising venture capital, it helps if you’ve had “exits.” In other words, if your company has been acquired or you’ve taken one public, investors are more inclined to take a bet on anything you do. Boston -based serial entrepreneur David Cancel has sold not just one, but four companies.  And after a few years […] Continue reading Drift raises $60 million to be an Amazon for businesses→