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Craft.io raises $8M in early funding for software product design and management tools
Software product management platform startup Craft.io Ltd. has topped up its bank balance to the tune of $8 million after closing on a new round of funding. The Series A round was led by JAL Ventures and included new investor Fosun RZ Capital as well as existing investors Inimiti and Ron Zuckerman. Craft.io’s digital product ...
DataCore acquires MayaData to solve the software container data conundrum
Software-defined storage firm DataCore Software Corp. is looking to address the challenges around container storage with the acquisition of a startup called MayaData Inc. announced today. MayaData is an emerging player in Kubernetes storage. The company leads the open-source OpenEBS project, which is a cloud-native storage platform that provides persistent and highly scalable block storage ...
Lightbend enables serverless deployment for more apps with Akka Serverless
Cloud-native microservices company Lightbend Inc. announced the general availability of its Akka Serverless platform-as-a-service offering today in a move it says will make serverless computing more accessible for data-hungry applications. Akka Serverless debuted in beta in June, with Lightbend proclaiming that it will set a new standard for serverless application development by eliminating the need for ...
Customer engagement firm Braze valued at $8B following strong IPO
Customer engagement software company Braze Inc. enjoyed a strong debut on the public markets today with its share price opening 34% above its marketed range to value the company at almost $8 billion. Braze said it sold 8 million shares in its initial public offering along with certain selling stockholders, raising $520 million in the ...
Nvidia easily beats expectations as data center chip sales grow 55%
Computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. posted strong third-quarter results that topped Wall Street’s expectations today, driven by record sales of chips for data centers, especially those designed for artificial intelligence workloads. The company also offered bullish guidance for the current quarter, sending its stock higher in extended trading. Nvidia reported a profit before certain costs ...
Cisco misses revenue targets and its stock slides
Cisco Systems Inc. endured a rough ride in after-hours trading today as its stock lost more than 6% of its value after the networking giant reported mixed first-quarter financial results and offered lower-than-expected guidance for the current quarter. Cisco reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 82 cents per share on revenue ...
Public cloud data protection startup Laminar exits stealth and closes on $32M funding
Cloud data protection startup Laminar Ltd. exited stealth mode today after closing on a new $32 million round of funding. The company says it’s on a mission to prevent data leakage from everything that enterprises build and run in the public cloud. Today’s Series A round was led by Insight Partners and also saw participation from ...
With $105M in new funding, Jamstack creator Netlify buys GraphQL startup OneGraph
Netlify Inc., creator of the automated web development platform Jamstack, announced today it has raised $105 million in a late-stage round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to $212 million to date. The news came as the company revealed it has acquired OneGraph Inc., which sells a GraphQL platform that simplifies the integration and ...
Container monitoring tool Prometheus now runs more efficiently in low-resource environments
The developers of the popular Prometheus monitoring tool announced a new operating mode for the software today that’s designed to run more efficiently in low-resource environments such as edge networks and “internet of things” deployments. Prometheus is a popular open-source tool that’s used to monitor software containers managed with Kubernetes. Developers use containers to host ...
Zuora’s newest product enables real-time revenue reconciliation
Cloud subscription software company Zuora Inc. is betting on the need for real-time revenue management with its latest offering. The Real-Time Revenue product for Zuora Revenue announced today enables businesses an automatic way to recognize, then reconcile and analyze their incoming revenue with high accuracy. As a result, companies can close the books on a ...