Inngest raises $6.1M as it expands its workflow engine
Inngest, a startup that makes it easier for developers to build and manage serverless backends, today announced that it has raised a $6.1 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with follow-on investments from GGV, Afore Capital and Vercel CEO and co-founder Guillermo Rauch, who all parti
Airfocus bags $7.5M for its take on project management software
In 2017, Malte Scholz, then a project manager at a 200-person startup, was struggling to find a product management tool that worked both for him and the teams under his purview. After piloting a few solutions, he eventually decided to create his own — and built a business around it.
That turn
Inference.ai matches AI workloads with cloud GPU compute
"">GPUs' ability to perform many computations in parallel make them well-suited to running today's most capable AI. But GPUs are becoming tougher to procure, as companies of all sizes increase their investments in AI-powered products.
Nvidia's best-performing AI cards sold out last year
Productivity platform ClickUp acquires calendar startup Hypercal
Tiger Global and a16z-backed productivity company ClickUp has acquired the calendar app Hypercal to boost its platform offering, technewss has learned. As part of the acquisition, the app’s founder Ricardo Clerigo is also joining ClickUp as Head of Calendar.
U.K.-based Hypercal was founded i
Developer experience is more important than developer productivity
There’s an unhealthy obsession with companies looking for a way to measure developer productivity.
Over the last 20 years, I've led multidisciplinary technology teams across some of Australia's largest enterprises. Most recently, I led the development of an internal development platfo
Compa grabs more capital amid customer quest for real-time compensation data
Let's face it — the job market is tough. Between all of the layoffs in the tech industry and new job positions being created to leverage the artificial intelligence boom, company compensation teams need the best data to get out in front of industry changes, competition and costs.
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Was HPE’s $14B Juniper acquisition a wise move?
When HPE announced its intention to acquire Juniper Networks for $14 billion in cold, hard cash earlier this month, it was a bit of a shock. Sure, HP had already bought Aruba in 2015 for around $3 billion. Grabbing another networking company would presumably just add another layer to that business.
UK launches antitrust probe into planned $19B Vodafone, Three merger
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a formal probe into the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK.
The news hardly comes as a surprise, given that the £15 billion ($19 billion) joint venture would reduce the U.K.’s main infrastructure-owning mobile n
Google extends its Project IDX development environment with built-in iOS and Android emulators
Last summer, Google launched Project IDX, its experimental web-based full-stack development environment with built-in support for Codey (Google’s version of GitHub Copilot) and Flutter (Google’s cross-platform development framework). With today’s release, Google is delivering on s
Digs raises $7M for its collaboration platform for home builders
Vancouver, Washington–based Digs, a collaboration platform that provides homebuders, vendors and — eventually — homeowners with something akin to a digital twin of a home, today announced that it has extended its $7 mlion seed round from 2023 with another $7 mlion. The new round was l
Observability platform Better Stack secures $10M cash infusion
Monitoring software and infrastructure in production, the practice known as observability is becoming increasingly harder — not easier.
According to recent survey, 69% of developer operations professionals say that their observability data is expanding at a “concerning” rate, maki
Atomico backs Deeploi, an ‘IT-as-a-service’ platform for SMEs
Deeploi, an “IT-as-a-service” startup for SMEs, has raised $6.5 million in a seed round of funding led by European VC Atomico.
The one-year-old German startup serves to help companies reduce the friction and, ultimately, productivity loss that arises from a subpar IT setup — parti
Prompt Security wants to make GenAI safe for the enterprise
Businesses are moving faster than ever to use generative AI and bring it to both their employees and users. Moving fast and security don’t always go hand-in-hand, though, so it’s only now that many businesses are waking up to the potential security concerns related to using generative A
How to plan for general partner succession
Nearly 10 years ago, in April 2015, I published a blog called “Confronting the ‘S’ word: Dealing with general partner succession.” As the founder and managing partner of Vintage, I wanted to ensure that Vintage would survive after I retire. Ensuring the survival of Vintage w