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Shoreline raises $35M to automate incident response for DevOps teams
Incident automation startup Shoreline Inc. today announced it has raised $35 million in new funding led by New York-based private equity firm Insight Partners to expand its operations and its team. Dawn Capital also participated in the Series B round, which brought Shoreline’s total funding raised to $57 million since the company came out of ...
Phi Labs raises $21M to reward blockchain developers with the Archway protocol
Phi Labs, a contributor to the Archway protocol that rewards blockchain developers, announced today that it has raised $21 million in seed funding co-led by CoinFund and Hashed. The fundraising also saw participation from Wintermute, Figment, Chorus One, 1Confirmation, Blockchain Capital, Ideo CoLab, Hyperspehere Ventures and Lemniscap. The Archway protocol is built on top of ...
Eyeball scanning crypto startup Worldcoin reportedly raising $100M at $3B valuation
The iris-scanning cryptocurrency project Worldcoin will be raising $100 million valuing the company’s tokens at $3 billion, according to a report from The Information. Two unnamed sources said that investors include Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z and Khosla Ventures and that the fundraise will involve the sale of Worldcoin tokens. This investment follows a $25 million funding ...
‘Enterprise Browser’ maker Island raises $115M at $1.3B valuation
Island, the developer of the security-focused “Enterprise Browser,” reached unicorn status today with a $115 million funding round led by Insight Partners, bringing its valuation to $1.3 billion. This Series B round saw participation from Island’s existing investors Stripes and Sequoia Capital. To date, the startup has raised more than $200 million in total funds. ...
Harness acquires ChaosNative to bring ‘chaos engineering’ to DevOps workflows
The software delivery platform startup Harness Inc. today announced it has acquired ChaosNative Inc. to extend its scalable chaos engineering capabilities for enterprise development and operations teams. Chaos engineering is the principle of approaching software production by building it to withstand unexpected or “chaotic” conditions, such as failures or disasters. In layman’s terms, this is called ...
Nvidia scales out Omniverse ecosystem for designers to build digital twins
Omniverse, Nvidia Corp.’s hyper-realistic real-time 3D graphics collaboration platform, is getting a number of new improvements that will make it even more accessible to creators, developers and enterprise customers to create “digital twins,” or virtual models designed to simulate real-world objects accurately. During the 2022 GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia said that Omniverse had been downloaded ...
Web3 gaming platform C2X raises $25M at $500M valuation
The blockchain gaming platform C2X operated by MetaMagnet Ltd. said today it has raised $25 million in new funding led by FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto and Animoca Brands. Funds were raised in a private token sale, which raised the valuation of the platform to $500 million. Also participating in the round were Hashed, Terra, Transcend ...
Android 13’s newest developer preview focuses on security and tools
Google LLC today released the second developer preview for Android 13, which follows up the first preview with more security and privacy features as well as more user experience and performance-enhancing tools. Today’s announcement of the Android 13 Developer Preview 2 also comes after some big news about the official release of the 12L feature ...
DeFi analytics firm Treehouse raises $18M to assist crypto investors
Treehouse Finance today announced that it has raised $18 million in seed funding to serve decentralized finance investors with its analytics platform by giving them meaningful insights into blockchain data. The company said the round was led by a large undisclosed financial technology investor with involvement from a multitude of tech investors, including Lightspeed, Wintermute, ...
Aptos raises $200M to bring the Diem blockchain back to life
Aptos Labs, a startup built by employees who developed the blockchain behind Meta Platform Inc.’s now-defunct payment system Diem, today said that it has raised $200 million in strategic funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Coinbase Ventures, FTX Ventures, Tiger Global, Multicoin Capital, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, Irongrey, 3 Arrows Capital, Paxos and others also ...