While everyone keeps talking about AI, HR tech startups are quietly building toward a $24B market

While venture capitalists, startup founders and major tech companies compete to see who can say “AI” the most in a week, people are busy building other, more useful stuff. And one particular group has caught our eye: companies that build software for human resource management.

EvaluAgent raises $20M to build out software that evaluates call center agents

After spending more than a decade in the customer experience industry, three friends, Jaime Scott, Michelle Dinsmore and Alex Richards, decided to launch their own company, EvaluAgent, to develop quality assurance testing software for contact centers. The three co-founders say they were motivated b

MongoDB readies its Atlas database service for new workloads

At its MongoDB.local NYC event, MongoDB today announced a slew of product releases and updates. Given the company’s focus on its fully managed Atlas service, it’s no surprise that the majority of news focuses on that platform, with improved support for AI and semantic search workloads,

Acryl Data raises $21M to grow its enterprise data catalog platform

With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Data teams are overworked — forced to cater to the needs of disparate departments within an organization while trying to maintain data policies consistently. That’

MotherDuck launches its DuckDB-based cloud analytics platform

Open source database company MotherDuck, which has raised a total of $47.5 mlion, today announced the launch of its serverless cloud analytics platform. Co-founded by Google BigQuery founding engineer Jordan Tigani, MotherDuck’s focus so far has been on buding out their platform alongside the

Heard Technologies grabs another $15M to develop therapist accounting tools

It's hard to run a business and help customers at the same time. And with more people seeking mental health practitioners these days, therapists are feeling a similar struggle to balance patients and paperwork. Victoria Li and Andrew Riesen started Heard Technologies in 2019 to reduce the burde

Limble raises $58M at a $450M valuation to help orgs track and maintain ‘dumb’ physical assets

Advances in Internet of Things technologies promise to give organizations and us ordinary people an unprecedented view of all of the objects we own and use — where they are, how they’re working and if they’re not working. But what about the vast swath of physical assets and enviro

With $18M in funding, System Initiative wants to modernize DevOps

The promise of DevOps is often frustrated by the reality of having to stitch together a bunch of products. System Initiative‘s co-founders believe that in order for DevOps to live up to its promises, it’ll take a wholesale reimagining of what this toolchain looks like. At the core, Syst

Codenotary brings its immutable database to the cloud

Codenotary‘s focus is on software supply chain security and monitoring Kubernetes deployments, but at the heart of these services is the company’s popular open source immudb immutable database. At this point, the playbook for commercializing popular open source projects seems pretty imm

Databricks is proof that strong unicorns can grow their way out of a market correction

Databricks recently revealed that it recorded revenue of more than $1 billion in the financial year ended January 31. The company also said it grew more than 60% last year and its data warehousing product crossed the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) threshold in April. Databricks has alw

Microsoft expects to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years

Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company’s researchers have been working on for quite a few years now. There are still plenty of intermediary milestones to be reached, but Krysta Svore, Microsoft’s VP of a

Dropbox launches $50M AI-focused venture fund, intros AI features

Not content to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI race, Dropbox today launched Dropbox Ventures, a new $50 million venture fund focused on startups in the AI space. The company’s first venture arm, Dropbox Ventures will provide mentorship in addition to financial support to build AI-po

Cloudflare launches Observatory, a tool to beef up web monitoring

Organizations increasingly see observabity — the abity to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates — as key. In a recent survey from New Relic, more than three-quarters (78%) of IT decision-makers and practitioners said that they saw observabity as an enable

Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M

In 2015, Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi — all veterans of the trucking and logistics industry — came to the realization that, in order to reach a stage of real-time collaboration, the entire trucking industry needed to come online. Shippers, carriers and brokers ̵