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Alphabet’s Wing is set to lift off drone deliveries in Texas starting April 7
Alphabet Inc.’s drone delivery division Wing Aviation LLC announced today that it will be launching its service in Texas later this week to deliver goods to “tens of thousands” of homes. The company has set up operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area to provide service within the City of Frisco and the Town of ...
Blockchain.com now supports NFT usernames with full Unstoppable Domains integration
Cryptocurrency wallet and exchange Blockchain.com Inc. said today that it’s integrating all of Unstoppable Domains Inc.’s extensions for its 81 million wallets to make it easier for its users to send and receive digital currencies. In order to receive cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum, users need to exchange a lengthy, difficult-to-remember alphanumeric code that ...
Docker founders launch DevOps software deployment startup Dagger with $20M funding
DevOps software deployment startup Dagger today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding alongside the public beta launch of its platform that automates management for software supply chains. The Series A round follows a $3 million pre-seed round and $7 million seed round that brings the total funding for the company raised to $30 ...
Developer recruiting platform HackerRank raises $60M
Professional developer hiring platform HackerRank said today it will expand its core for coders and recruiters with $60 million in new funding led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, which brings the company’s valuation to $500 million. Additional investors also participating in the Series D funding round included JMI, Khosla Ventures, Randstad Innovation Fund and Recruit Holdings. ...
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 ...