Orbital Insight closes $50M Series C led by Sequoia

 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 raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka

data streams 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