Databricks raises $1.6B at $38B valuation as it blasts past $600M ARR

The company views its market as a new technology category. Databricks calls the technology a data “lakehouse,” a mashup of data lake and data warehouse. Continue reading Databricks raises $1.6B at $38B valuation as it blasts past $600M ARR

Octane banks $2M for flexible billing software

Octane, a metered SaaS billing system, helps vendors create a plan, monitor usage and charge in a similar way to Snowflake and AWS. Continue reading Octane banks $2M for flexible billing software

Sales experience platform Walnut raises $15M to improve product demonstrations

Walnut’s a no-code platform enables customers to create customized product demonstrations, integrate them into their sales and marketing processes and then generate insights from the demos. Continue reading Sales experience platform Walnut raises $15M to improve product demonstrations

Owner.com serves up $10.7M so that independent restaurants can get cooking

Owner.com provides a free online ordering, delivery and marketing platform for independent restaurants that puts them on a similar playing fields with large restaurant chains. Continue reading Owner.com serves up $10.7M so that independent restaurants can get cooking

Zoom announces first startups receiving funding from $100M investment fund

For more than year now, Zoom has been on a mission to transform from an application into a platform. To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools, the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on top […] Continue reading Zoom announces first startups receiving funding from $100M investment fund

Stonehenge Technology Labs bags $2M, gives CPG companies one-touch access to metrics

Stonehenge Technology Labs wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from all of the data they collect. Continue reading Stonehenge Technology Labs bags $2M, gives CPG companies one-touch access to metrics

Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure

Enterprises use Zeal to pay large volumes of workers and keep payment data on their own native systems. Continue reading Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure

Job offer management platform Compa emerges from stealth with $3.9M

The offer management platform provides “deal desk” software for recruiters to easily manage compensation strategies. Continue reading Job offer management platform Compa emerges from stealth with $3.9M