Startup CEOs sound off on picking cloud providers
Years ago, there was a price war between public clouds. Back in 2014, to pick one example, Amazon's AWS cut its prices in response to Google's recently launched competing service.
Since those heady days, the cloud infrastructure market has matured and changed. Sure, AWS is still top dog, wi
Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI
Generative AI is suddenly everywhere. Over the past year, you’ve probably seen people showcasing impressive AI-generated artworks, thanks to progress in text-to-image algorithms introduced by groups like OpenAI and Stability AI. A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications
Zoom's adding email and calendar as it pushes harder to expand the platform
At the height of the pandemic Zoom was the go-to application for meetings with people stuck at home in lockdown. During FY 2021, the company was growing at an unsustainable triple-digit rate, peaking at a mind-blowing 369% growth in Q3 2021. By Q2 2023, its most recent quarter, it was down to singl
Laika laps up $50M for its automated security compliance platform
Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust with their users, but of how organizations work together these days: fail to meet the requirements of these frameworks, and you might lose your busines
Security automation startup Veriti launches out of stealth with $18.5M
Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding, a combination of $12 million from Insight Partners and a $6.5 million round led by NFX and Amiti. According to CEO Adi Ikan, the newly announced capital is being put toward scalin
Teamraderie, a B2B MasterClass-style platform for team building, raises $7M
The growing trends of hiring and running remote workforces, and more recently the major upheaval of restructuring across a number of industries, have redefined and disrupted the concept of teams at work. Even as some return to the office, many of us don’t see each other face-to-face, and even
New data shows how SaaS founders have been dealing with whiplash from public markets
What a difference a year makes. If you are looking for proof, go no further than OpenView Venture Partners’ 2022 SaaS benchmarks report, which couldn’t be more different from the 2021 edition.
Both reports come from an annual survey of SaaS companies, and with 660 global respondents, th
EdgeDB raises $15M ahead of the launch of its cloud database service
EdgeDB, the startup looking to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Nava Ventures and Accel. The new capital brings the startup’s total raised to $19 million, which CEO Yury Selivanov said will be used to boost headco
Cloudflare reaches $1B run rate, promises $5B in 5 years. Investors? Not impressed
Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure and security company, reported earnings on Thursday, reaching a significant milestone. With almost $254 million in revenue, the company is on a run rate of over $1 billion for the first time.
Revenue, which was up 47% over the previous year, also beat the str
Is the modern data stack just old wine in a new bottle?
Remember the cable, phone and internet combo offers that used to land in our mailboxes? These offers were highly optimized for conversion, and the type of offer and the monthly price could vary significantly between two neighboring houses or even between condos in the same building.
I know this bec
Amazon exec confirms corporate hiring freeze through end of year
Given the ongoing economic headwinds and the company's expensive belt-tightening under CEO Andy Jassy, it ought not come as a surprise that Amazon has instituted a corporate hiring freeze. The retail giant's senior vice president of People Experience and Technology, Beth Galetti, confirmed
Now anyone can build apps that use DALL-E 2 to generate images
At long last, DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s image-generating AI system, is available as an API, meaning developers can build the system into their apps, websites and services. In a blog post today, OpenAI announced that any developer can start tapping the power of DALL-E 2 — which more than three
FlowForge nabs $7.2M to help companies integrate IoT using Node-RED
A new company from one of the original creators of the open source Node-RED project is setting out to make it easier for companies to bridge the gap between incompatible IoT ecosystems at scale.
Node-RED, for the uninitiated, is a low-code, visual programming tool developed inside IBM for connectin
Port internal development platform gives visibility into DevOps architecture
In a typical large organization, DevOps tasks have become so complex, and involve navigating so many tools, it has become difficult to understand the current state of affairs, and to add resources when needed. It’s gotten to the point where developers often need to submit a ticket, even for a