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GV joins $25M round into “adaptive” database startup Fauna
Fauna Inc., an emerging database provider based in San Francisco, is attracting serious interest in the venture capital community. The startup today announced that it has landed a $25 million financing round from a consortium featuring nearly a dozen investors. Notable participants include Alphabet Inc.’s GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), CRV and Data Collective. Fauna ...
Now AI-enabled, Apttus reels in $55M from investors
The everyday aspects of a company’s operations are often where technology can make the biggest impact. Apttus Inc. has carved out a niche worth more than a billion dollars in such an area, and today it announced that it has raised $55 million to keep the momentum going. The San Mateo, California-based company sells a cloud service dedicated ...
Baidu loses the director of its Silicon Valley AI lab
A key figure at Baidu Inc.’s research group appears to have left. Adam Coates, who joined the company in 2014 to lead its Silicon Valley artificial intelligence lab, was spotted to have removed the reference to the position from his LinkedIn profile. An unnamed insider at the Chinese search giant confirmed the departure to TechCrunch. ...
Kubernetes creators raise $25M for their software container startup Heptio
Just over a year after launching, Heptio Inc. is already marking its second round of funding. The Seattle-based startup today announced the completion of a $25 million investment led by early Amazon.com Inc. investor Madrona Venture Group. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel Partners chipped in as well. The capital infusion will fuel Heptio’s efforts to ...
Nasuni raises $38M to bridge cloud and on-premises storage
Nasuni Corp. has won the endorsement of one of most prominent firms on Wall Street. The Boston-based data management provider today announced the completion of a $38 million financing round led by GS Growth, a technology fund operated by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The cash infusion brings Nasuni’s total raised to about $120 million. What has ...
Microsoft’s latest cloud instances carry over unused performance
The infrastructure requirements of a cloud application can fluctuate a great deal, particularly when it comes to performance. On Monday, Microsoft Corp. introduced an instance family for Azure specifically designed to deal with such usage changes. The new B-Series virtual machines can operate at a wide range of performance levels. When the baseline processing power available to an ...
Talkdesk’s new service draws on user context to speed support calls
Talkdesk Inc., a venture-backed provider of contact center automation services, believes that it has found a way to make support calls less of a hassle. The startup today is launching a new suite called Talkdesk Context that draws upon the data companies collect their about customers to streamline help desk operations. Context Mobile, the first ...
Rackspace to acquire rival Datapipe in its biggest deal to date
Rackspace Inc. is taking a major step towards strengthening its position in the managed services market. The company today announced plans to buy Datapipe Inc., a New Jersey-based competitor that launched in 1998 and has raised over $300 million from investors. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Rackspace Chief Executive Officer Joe ...
Typeform takes in $35M to reimagine online surveys and forms
For all the energy that the tech industry puts into user experience these days, the basic design of online forms has changed relatively little since the first sign-up boxes appeared on the web. Barcelona’s Typeform S.L. is working to bring a new approach into play. The startup today announced that its efforts have received a big ...
NS1, the startup serving traffic to LinkedIn and Dropbox, raises $20M
Web requests must traverse a long and often convoluted path across the Internet to reach their destination. Along the way, traffic usually passes through several intermediaries such as New York-based NS1 Inc., which on Thursday announced the completion of a $20 million funding round led by GGV Capital. The startup helps companies host the infrastructure ...
