Fivetran, the company best known for helping enterprises build their data pipelines, on Tuesday announced the general availability of its newest product, the Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service. The new service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes by automating and streamlining it for the company clients, freeing them up to focus […]
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GetWhy, a consumer research tech company that helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI, has raised $34.5 million in a Series A round of funding from California-based VC firm, PeakSpan Capital. The substantial Series A highlights investors’ fervor to back the next big thing in AI, particularly companies
Cloudera, the once high flying Hadoop startup, raised $1 billion and went public in 2018 before being acquired by private equity for $5.3 billion 2021. Today, the company announced that it is acquiring Verta, an AI startup that helps customers manage machine learning models, including large language models used in generative AI. Cloudera, which launched
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Redpanda, the well-funded Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that competes with the likes of Confluent, on Thursday announced that it has acquired open-source stream-processing platform Benthos. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price, but it’s worth noting that Redpanda raised a $150 million Series C round a year ago that now allows it to
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Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid. It’s no surprise, then, that Salesforce paid a premium to buy a platform that helps its customers manage commissions more easily. Several months ago, Salesforce bought Spiff to help companies build out and manage incentive-based compensation schemes. Salesforce’s
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A startup called Firefly tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding on the heels of strong demand for its tech and increasing revenues four-fold in 2023. The firm’s latest success comes on the heels of tragedy, as co-founder CTO Joseph
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DevOps startup Harness has shown itself to be an ambitious company, building a broad platform of services while also dabbling in M&A when it made sense to fill in functionality. On Wednesday, the company announced it was ready for a much bigger M&A bite, acquiring feature flag startup Split.io for an undisclosed amount of money.
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GitHub and JFrog announced a partnership on Wednesday that will see a deeper integration between the two companies’ platforms, giving developers and their support teams an easier way to manage both their source code and the resulting binaries across both services. Among other things, this includes the ability to trace code from source to binary
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ChatGPT has changed how most people regard and interact with AI, and the tool has been used widely to do everything from create travel itineraries to assisting developers with coding. Now, its creator, OpenAI, on Wednesday announced that it has signed a major enterprise customer that it hopes will be a signal of how a
Jio Leasing Services Ltd (JLSL), a subsidiary of Jio Financial Services, plans to buy customer premises equipment, devices and telecom equipment worth $4.32 billion from Reliance Retail over the next two financial years, according to a postal ballot notice (PDF) sent to shareholders seeking approval of the deal. JLSL is entering the business of operating
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