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Alteryx’s stock jumps on rapid revenue growth and confident outlook
Shares of the big-data firm Alteryx Inc. rose more than 9% in extended trading today after it revealed that its revenue grew by 73% in the fourth quarter. It also offered solid guidance for the next quarter and full year, boosting investor’s enthusiasm further. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $31.7 ...
Google launches Immersive Stream for XR to power extended reality experiences from the cloud
Google Cloud is looking to power high-quality photorealistic augmented reality experiences for millions of mobile devices with the general availability of its Immersive Stream for XR service. Announced today, Immersive Stream for XR is a cloud-hosted graphics rendering service powered by Google Cloud’s graphics processing units. It streams high-quality, detailed images and video to any ...
Cloud networking startup Arrcus raises $50M funding round
Hyperscale networking software startup Arrcus Inc. today announced it has closed on a $50 million late-stage round of funding led by Prosperity7. Existing investors, including Clear Ventures, General Catalyst, Liberty Global and Lightspeed, also participated in the Series D round, as did Silicon Valley Bank, which is providing credit facilities. Arrcus said today’s round almost doubles ...
Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor to launch new AI startup with Google veteran Clay Bavor
Former Salesforce Inc. co-Chief Executive Officer Bret Taylor (pictured) is teaming up with outgoing Google LLC Vice President Clay Bavor to create a new artificial intelligence startup. The unnamed company will seek to apply AI to “some of the most important problems in business,” Taylor wrote in a LinkedIn post today. Bavor, who previously worked ...
Despite strong growth, JFrog fails to meet shareholders revenue targets and its stock drops
DevOps platform provider JFrog Ltd. reported strong revenue growth today as it beat Wall Street’s targets on earnings, but it failed to grow fast enough to satisfy shareholders and its stock fell after-hours. The company reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $23.2 million, up slightly from the $22.7 million loss it posted a year earlier. ...
Aiven launches managed version of Apache Flink for real-time data stream processing
Aiven Ltd., a startup that’s focused on delivering cloud-hosted and managed versions of the most popular open-source software platforms, has announced the general availability of its latest offering, Aiven for Apache Flink. With the new offering, businesses can now access a fully managed version of the real-time data stream processing platform on Amazon Web Services, ...
Time series database startup InfluxData closes $81M in late-stage funding
Time series database startup InfluxData Inc. said today it has secured $81 million in funding. The money comes from a $51 million Series E funding round led by new investors Princeville Capital and Citi Ventures, with participation from existing backers Battery Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Sapphire Ventures and others, plus a $30 million debt facility secured ...
Fivetran debuts Lite connectors to ease SaaS app data integration
Big data integration firm Fivetran Inc. today promised it will be able to help its customers connect many more information sources to their data warehouses. It’s doing so with the launch of a new offering known as “Lite connectors,” which are being made available to enterprises on request and can be developed in a fraction ...
Freshworks delivers another solid earnings and revenue beat
Freshworks Inc. beat expectations on earnings and revenue for its fourth quarter, but its stock barely moved as it offered guidance that fell just shy of Wall Street’s forecasts. The company reported a net loss of $60.6 million, with earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of a penny per share, rising from a ...
Strong earnings beat and bullish guidance sends New Relic’s stock higher
Shares of the observability company New Relic Inc. soared in extended trading today after it posted strong third-quarter financial results that easily beat expectations and followed with a bullish forecast for the three months ahead. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $26 million, lower than the $62.7 million loss it delivered ...