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Cribl is developing unified data pipelines, called “observability pipelines,” to parse and route any type of data that flows through a corporate IT system. Continue reading Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data
Rockset, a cloud-native analytics company, announced a $40 million Series B investment today led by Sequoia with help from Greylock, the same two firms that financed its Series A. The startup has now raised a total of $61.5 million, according to the company. As co-founder and CEO Venkat Venkataramani told me at the time of […] Continue reading Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics solution gains momentum
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
Why are we all trapped in enterprise chat apps if we talk 6X faster than we type, and our brain processes visual info 60,000X faster than text? Thanks to Instagram, we’re not as camera-shy anymore. And everyone’s trying to remain in flow instead of being distracted by multi-tasking. That’s why now is the time for […] Continue reading Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger
An Indian SaaS startup, which is increasingly courting clients from outside of the country, just raised a significant amount of capital to expand its business. Hyderabad-based Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, said on Thursday it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. The Series B round — which moves […] Continue reading India’s Darwinbox raises $15M to bring its HR tech platform to more Asian markets
Figma, the startup looking to put design tools in the cloud, has today announced new plugins for the platform that will help users clean up their workflows. Figma cofounder and CEO Dylan Field says that plug-ins have been the most requested feature from users since the company’s launch. So, for the last year, the team […] Continue reading Cloud-based design tool Figma launches plug-ins
Okta Ventures wants to fund the next generation of identity, security and privacy startups. Continue reading Okta unveils $50M in-house venture capital fund
This morning Orbital Insight, a geospatial analytics startup, announced that it had completed raising a $50 million Series C round of financing from Sequoia. The fresh capital brings the company’s total fundraising to $78.7 million. Orbital Insight generates analytics for businesses using satellite imagery and other data. A product of deep learning and more readily available… Read More Continue reading Orbital Insight closes $50M Series C led by Sequoia
Confluent, the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka streaming database project, announced today that it has closed a $50 million investment.
The round was led by Sequoia with Benchmark and Index Ventures also participating. Sequoia’s Matt Miller will be joining the Confluent board as part of the deal. Today’s round brings the total investment into the… Read More Continue reading Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka
Swaying an election would be hard for hackers, but eroding confidence is doable. Continue reading US e-voting machines are (still) woefully antiquated and subject to fraud