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Andreessen Horowitz leads $125M round for code search startup Sourcegraph
Developer tooling startup Sourcegraph Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $125 million late-stage funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.625 billion valuation, triple what it was worth just eight months ago. The startup has raised a total of $225 million in funding including this Series D round. In addition to lead ...
ZoomInfo acquires Chorus.ai for $575M to expand its sales intelligence platform
Publicly-traded ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., which supplies enterprises with market intelligence they use to find new customers, today announced that it has inked a deal to buy sales analytics startup Chorus.ai Inc. for $575 million. Chorus.ai previously raised about $100 million in funding from investors including Redpoint Ventures and Emergence Capital. San Francisco-based Chorus.ai provides a ...
Google fined $593M in France for breaching antitrust order
France’s competition regulator today issued a fine of 500 million euros, or about $593 million, to Google LLC after finding that the search giant has failed to comply with parts of a 2020 antitrust ruling. The antitrust ruling ruling focused on the way Google displays content from news publishers in search results. The company said ...
Cisco leads $5M round for multicloud application integration startup TriggerMesh
Cisco Systems Inc. has led a $5 million funding round for TriggerMesh Inc., a startup with a Kubernetes-based software platform that makes it easier to link together applications running in different public clouds and on-premises data centers. TriggerMesh announced the round this morning. The Raleigh, North Carolina- and Switzerland-based startup said existing investors Index Ventures ...
Report: Google will seek to overturn $5.15B EU fine over Android contracts
Google LLC is reportedly looking to overturn a 4.34 billion-euro antitrust fine it received from European Union regulators in 2018 over certain contracts it had signed with Android handset manufacturers. Sources familiar with the matter disclosed the development to Reuters, which reported it this morning. The 4.34 billion euros Google was ordered to pay in ...
Fintech startup Tide reels in $100M for its business banking platform
U.K.-based financial technology startup Tide Platform Ltd. today announced that it has raised $100 million to broaden the adoption of its namesake business banking service, which helps small and midsized companies manage their finances. The round gives the startup a $468 million valuation. Private equity firm Apax Partners was the lead investor. Tide enables small ...
Blues Wireless, led by Microsoft’s former top software architect Ray Ozzie, raises $22M
Blues Wireless Inc., an “internet of things” chip startup founded by Microsoft’s former top software engineer Ray Ozzie, today announced that it has closed a $22 million funding round. Sequoia Capital and angel investor Lachy Groom jointly led the round. The investment also included the participation of XYZ Venture Capital and returning Blues Wireless backer ...
Cloud security startup Netskope raises $300M at $7.5B valuation
Netskope Inc., a startup that helps about a third of the companies on the Fortune 100 list secure their network traffic, has received a $300 million late-stage funding round valuing it at $7.5 billion. Iconiq Growth was the lead investor in the Series H round, which Netskope announced this morning. A number of existing backers ...
Biden to sign executive order that will increase scrutiny of tech giants
President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order today that will call for the implementation of 72 initiatives across more than a dozen government agencies to increase competition in the U.S. economy. Several of the initiatives focus on limiting the ability of tech giants to engage in business practices that can harm rivals ...
Coda raises $100M at $1.4B valuation to unify documents and spreadsheets
Coda Project Inc. has closed a late-stage $100 million funding round at a $1.4 billion valuation to grow the number of companies using its cloud-based document editor, which combines the features of a word processor and a spreadsheet editor in a single interface. The Series D round was announced this morning. It was led by ...