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Air taxi startup Volocopter GmbH today announced that it has secured $182 million in new funding. The capital was raised in the second signing of a Series E funding round that the startup originally disclosed earlier this year. In the first part …
Topline Pro raises $5M for its AI-powered website development platform
Topline Pro, a startup using artificial intelligence to help small businesses develop websites, today announced that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The funding was provided by Bonfire Ventures, TMV, BBG Ventures and Flybdridge Graduate Syndicate. A number of angel …
Gartner: Spending on public cloud services will exceed $591B in 2023
Worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow 20.7% in 2023, to $591.8 billion, according to a new Gartner Inc. forecast released today. The research firm also released its spending projection for 2022. Gartner expects organizations to spend $490.3 billion on cloud …
Contract management startup Icertis raises $150M in debt financing
Icertis Inc., a contract management startup that counts Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. among its customers, has raised $150 million in debt financing. Icertis announced the financing round today. The round, which was provided by Silicon Valley Bank, includes $75 million in …
Couchbase adds new storage and security features to its Capella database service
Couchbase Inc. today introduced a new release of Capella, its managed database service, that features an expanded set of data storage and security capabilities. Nasdaq-listed Couchbase provides a popular NoSQL database of the same name. Capella is a managed, cloud-based version of …
Google updates its Skaffold code deployment tool with new automation features
Google LLC today introduced a new version of its open-source Skaffold code deployment tool, which makes it easier for companies to build software container applications. Deploying a new container application and releasing updates to existing workloads can require a significant amount of …
Amazon to open new internet satellite factory
Amazon.com Inc. will open a satellite production facility in Kirkland, Washington to support its multibillion-dollar Project Kuiper initiative. The company announced the plan on Thursday. Project Kuiper is an initiative through which Amazon plans to build and deploy more than 3,200 internet …
AWS debuts Amazon Neptune Serverless to optimize graph database environments
Amazon Web Services Inc. on Wednesday introduced a serverless edition of Amazon Neptune, its cloud-based graph database service. The newly introduced Amazon Neptune Serverless is intended to ease administrators’ day-to-day work. In the process, the offering promises to help reduce cloud infrastructure …
UserTesting to be acquired for $1.3B by private equity firms
UserTesting Inc., a publicly traded provider of software testing tools, will be acquired by private equity firms Thoma Bravo and Sunstone Partners for approximately $1.3 billion. UserTesting announced the transaction this morning. The $1.3 billion acquisition price values the San Francisco-based company …
SASE startup Versa Networks secures $120M in new funding
Versa Networks Inc., the developer of a widely used secure access service edge platform, has secured $120 million in new funding. Versa stated in its announcement of the funding round today that BlackRock was the lead investor. Silicon Valley Bank participated as …