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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 ...
Google announces Jetpack Compose 1.0 and Android Studio Artic Fox stable release
Google LLC’s Android developer team today announced two major product releases: the 1.0 version of Jetpack Compose, Android’s toolkit for building native user interfaces, and the stable release of the Android Studio Arctic Fox visual code editor to take advantage of its features. Compose is designed to make it easier for developers to design interactive, ...
Bubble announces $100M funding for ‘no-code’ solution
Bubble Group Inc., a startup that allows people who aren’t coders to design and create web apps visually, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a funding round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors SignalFire, Neo, BoxGroup and ThirdKind also joined the Series A funding round. Bubble’s platform provides a visual engine that ...
Fireblocks crypto custodial startup raises $310M at $2.2B valuation
Fireblocks Inc., a crypto assets custodial services company, today announced it has raised $310 million in a new late-stage funding round that brings its valuation to $2.2 billion. The Series D funding round was co-led by Sequoia Capital, Stripes, Spark Capital, Coatue, DRW VC and Siam Commercial Bank’s SCB 10X. It follows a $133 million ...
Virtual office startup Teamflow raises $35M in new funding
Virtual office startup Teamflow today announced it has closed a $35 million in new funding led by Coatue Management. The Series B funding round was joined by existing investors Menlo Ventures and Battery Ventures. The funding brings the total amount raised by the company to $50 million following the company’s Series A, which raised $11 ...
Nextech plans to launch augmented reality NFT creator program
Augmented reality company Nextech AR Solutions Inc. today announced plans to launch an AR nonfungible token creator program to let customers take advantage of the emerging new class of digital collectibles. NFTs are a type of cryptocurrency asset representing a digital item such as artwork, images, videos and in-game items. The owners of NFTs have ...
Paystand raises $50M for blockchain-enabled no-fee B2B payments
Paystand Inc., a blockchain-enabled payment network for business, today announced it has raised $50 million in a new funding led by NewView Capital. SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, King River Capital, Industrious Ventures and Transform Capital also participated in the Series C funding round. In addition to previous rounds, this brings the company’s total funding to $85 ...
Akamai Edge DNS outage knocks out multiple major websites
A widespread internet outage briefly took down multiple major websites this morning, including those of FedEx, McDonald’s, UPS, AT&T and Airbnb. The apparent cause of the disruption was reported at about 11 a.m. EDT by Akamai Technologies Inc., an internet security and content delivery giant, which confirmed it was “aware of an emerging issue with ...
Passwordless authentication startup Magic raises $27M in funding
Magic Labs Inc., a startup that provides decentralized passwordless authentication for websites, said today that it has raised $27 million in an early-stage funding round led by Northzone. The Series A funding round brings the total raised by Magic to $31 million following a $4 million seed funding round in May 2020. It was led ...