SUSE, the venerable Luxemburg-based open-source company, has long been a household name in IT circles in Europe, but it’s never quite managed to capture the U.S. market, where competitors like Red Hat and Canonical are far better known. Yet, just like as in the cloud world, where a lot of players are hoping for AI […]
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After announcing a strategic partnership with SoftBank in April, Perplexity — the AI search engine that has ambitions to take on Google — is now using the deal to expand its user base, and data touchpoints, in SoftBank’s home market. SoftBank and two of its mobile operations, Y!mobile (SoftBank’s mobile phone operator) and LINEMO (SoftBank’s
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Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing at a rapid pace and recently raised a $30 million Series B funding round. According to a source, the company is now valued at $240 million. Originally from Madrid and now also based in New York,
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Amazon says that it will commit up to $230 million to startups building generative AI-powered applications. The investment, roughly $80 million of which will fund Amazon’s second AWS Generative AI Accelerator program, aims to position AWS as an attractive cloud infrastructure choice for startups developing generative AI models to power their products, apps and services.
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Since its launch in 2013, Databricks has relied on its ecosystem of partners, such as Fievtran, Rudderstack, and dbt, to provide tools for data preparation and loading. But now, at its annual Data + AI Summit, the company announced LakeFlow, its own data engineering solution that can handle data ingestion, transformation and orchestration and eliminates
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When one of the co-creators of the popular open-source stream-processing framework Apache Flink launches a new startup, it’s worth paying attention. Stephan Ewen was among the founding team of the open source project back in 2010 and then later became the CTO of Data Artisans, which aimed to monetize Flink. Alibaba then acquired the company
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Philipp Heltewig, who was CIO at marketing firm Sitecore before it was sold to private equity group EQT in 2016, joined forces with Sascha Poggemann and Benjamin Mayr eight years ago to found Cognigy, a customer service automation startup. The impetus was what they perceived as confusion about AI’s capabilities among both consumers and C-suite
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When Slack CEO Denise Dresser was handed the reins last November, she was the third CEO in less than a year at the enterprise communications company. That kind of upheaval presents its own set of difficulties. She will be joining us for a fireside chat to discuss that transition and more on the SaaS Stage
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Last December, Nairobi’s Wasoko and Cairo-based rival MaxAB — two B2B e-commerce startups that enable retailers to order fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) from suppliers via their respective apps — announced a planned “merger of equals.” The aim was clear: create better economies of scale in a sector that holds a lot of promise in the
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If death and taxes are inevitable, why are companies so prepared for taxes, but not for death? “I lost both of my parents in college, and it didn’t initially spark this interest to go start a business around my experience,” said Bereave co-founder Elijah Linder. In the immediate aftermath of Linder’s loss, founding a company
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