Freshpaint: A Fresh Approach to Customer Data

Inefficiencies have long offered a great opportunity for innovation. Iconic companies have been built by founders who just looked at a status quo process (often then called “the standard”), scratched their heads, and were impelled to fix it. Never satisfied by “that’s just how it’s been done”, the itch to fix a universal problem is … Continued

Freshpaint Announces $14.5 Million in Financing and Launches Free Tier to Unlock Customer Data Without Engineering Work

Company expands to address unmet needs of non-engineers SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 16, 2022 — Freshpaint, a Y Combinator-backed company that enables businesses to capture and activate customer data across hundreds of integrations like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Iterable, Braze, Snowflake, and more without relying heavily on engineering, announced $14.5 million in financing, with a $9.5M … Continued

An Inflection Point for Cloud

Today’s cloud-native train is packed, with over a thousand companies and projects, a $18.9T market cap and $54.5B in funding across the cloud-native landscape, according to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This sparks the billion-dollar question: where does the market go from here? At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, we kicked off the week … Continued

Eliyan Closes $40M Series A Funding Round and Unveils Industry’s Highest Performance Chiplet Interconnect Technologies

Tapeout of Chiplet Connectivity Technology in 5nm Process Confirms Major Bandwidth, Power, Latency Advantages for UCIe-Compliant Die-to-Die Connectivity Company’s chiplet packaging method is critical to realizing the scale of performance and integration required in a broad range of compute-intensive applications for hyperscalers, data centers, cloud computing, AI, and graphics Series A funding round raises $40m led by Tracker Capital with … Continued

Metalenz Raises $30 Million Series B Led by Neotribe Ventures to Address Fast Growing Demand for its Breakthrough Metasurface Optics

October 12, 2022, Boston, MA – Metalenz, the market leader for metasurface optics for high-performance 3D sensing solutions, today announced the closing of a $30M Series B, led by Neotribe Ventures. The funding will be used to meet the growing demand for the company’s existing 3D Sensor metasurface optics while simultaneously accelerating the market introduction … Continued

Document Automation at Your Fingertips

Have you ever wanted to automate your job? … or at least the non-value-add data drudgery part of it? You know the types of tasks I’m talking about. 21-year-old me starting my career at a financial services-focused investment bank dreaded the monthly research updates on financial fund performance. Fast forward decades and a few career … Continued

Alkymi Raises $21 Million Series A Funding to Create the Data Action Layer

Business users will transform their own workflows and make faster decisions with the Data Action Layer NEW YORK – October 6, 2022 – Alkymi, the leader in data workflow automation, has raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Intel Capital with participation from existing investors Canaan, Work-Bench and SimCorp. Intel Capital’s Investment Director … Continued

Eclypsium Raises Series B to Protect the Digital Supply Chain As Attacks Grow

The new round highlights market demand to protect global businesses from soaring breaches through supply chains of critical hardware, devices, firmware and software PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eclypsium® today announced it has raised $25 million in Series B financing led by Ten Eleven Ventures, the original cybersecurity-focused, global, stage-agnostic investment firm. Global Brain’s KDDI Open Innovation Fund … Continued

Fortanix Raises $90M in Series C Funding Led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management to Accelerate Leadership in the Data Security Market

Oversubscribed round validates company’s data-first approach to solving cloud security and privacy issues for global businesses thwarting data breaches and ransomware MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 — Fortanix® Inc., the data-first multicloud security company and the pioneer of Confidential Computing, today announced $90 million in Series C financing bringing the total amount the company has … Continued

Time for a New Approach to Enterprise Data Security

Data Security Conundrum Ransomware attacks are worse than ever, yet data security remains unsolved, despite strides in network and infrastructure security over the past decade, presenting challenges for enterprise security, data and IT teams who are under pressure to make data easier to use and share. These teams are also tasked with accelerating digital transformation … Continued