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Google releases Android 12 Beta 4 with an eye to platform stability
The Android team at Google LLC today announced the fourth beta of Android 12, which brings platform stability and will lock in all the app-facing behaviors of the operating system. The company said this is a major milestone leading up to the official release of Android 12 later this year. It means that developers now ...
ByondXR raises $7M in funding to create 3D virtual shopping environments
Digital showroom and virtual shopping startup ByondXR said today it has raised $7 million in seed financing led by Firstime and OurCrowd. Using web-based extended reality, ByondXR provides retailers the ability to create their own immersive virtual showrooms that customers can walk around and explore without leaving their own living rooms. These virtual stores simulate ...
DevOps feature management service LaunchDarkly raises $200M at $3B valuation
LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform for DevOps teams, said today it has raised $200 million in late-stage financing led by Lead Edge Capital LLC to scale up its core feature platform. Also participating in today’s Series D round were new investors Top Tier Capital Partners and Insight Venture Partners as well as existing investors Bessemer ...
At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia expands Omniverse, announces RTX A2000 graphics card
Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of an expansion to its Omniverse hyper-realistic graphics collaboration platform through an integration with Blender, an open-source 3D animation tool. It also announced its upcoming RTX A2000 graphics card at the annual ACM SIGGRAPH computer graphics technology conference. Blender now has Universal Scene Description support. That will allow artists to ...
JetBrains updates Space with flexible notification management
JetBrains, a company that creates an extended family of development environments for programming languages, has released a notification management update to Space, its all-in-one collaboration solution for software projects and creative teams. JetBrains Space assists teams with chats, project management, issue tracking, Git hosting, continuous integration and deployment and package repositories all in one space. ...
NFT digital art market MakersPlace raises $30M in Series A funding
MakersPlace, a marketplace for crypto-asset digital artwork, today announced it raised $30 million in an early funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital. According to the company, Coinbase Ventures, Sony Music Entertainment, Uncork Capital, Draper Dragon Digital Assets, 9Yards Capital also participated in the Series A funding round. The marketplace allows traders ...
CoreChain pulls in $1.25M for blockchain-based enterprise B2B payments
CoreChain Technologies, a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology, today announced it raised $1.25 million in pre-seed funding. Investors joining this early funding stage included Ulu Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Bloccelerate VC and New Form Capital. CoreChain was launched in September 2020 and has since processed over $300 million in B2B payments for enterprise buyers ...
Crypto finance startup Matrixport raises $100M at over $1B valuation
Matrixport, crypto banking and financial services startup spinoff from Bitmain Technologies Ltd., announced today that it has raised $100 million in funding at over $1 billion valuation led by partners of DST Global, C Ventures and K3 Ventures. The Series C funding round was also joined by Qiming Venture Partners, CE Innovation Capital, Tiger Global, ...
Ethereum smart contract monitoring platform Tenderly raises $15.3M
Tenderly, a platform that helps developers monitor smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, announced Thursday it has raised $15.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. Headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia, Tenderly provides a set of tools for developers to test and watch the health of their code on the Ethereum blockchain through ...
Livepeer raises $20M for blockchain-based livestreaming
Livepeer Inc., a decentralized video streaming network built on the Ethereum blockchain, today announced it raised $20 million in funding led by Digital Currency Group. The Series B funding round was joined by Coinbase Ventures, Coinfund, Northzone, Mike Dudas’ 6th Man Ventures and Animal Ventures. Livepeer was founded in 2017 as a decentralized video streaming ...