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The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems
At a quick glance, the IBM-HashiCorp deal seems like a good one for both sides, but upon closer inspection, perhaps not.
IBM moves deeper into hybrid cloud management with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition
With HashiCorp, Big Blue gets a set of cloud lifecycle management and security tools, and a company that is growing considerably faster than any of IBM’s other businesses.
OpenTofu, the open source Terraform fork, has hit general availability (GA) some four months after launch. The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software was laid bare on numerous…
Terraform fork gets renamed OpenTofu, and joins Linux Foundation
When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups that…
Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform
Earlier this month HashiCorp announced it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source…
Infrastructure automation company HashiCorp today announced that it has acquired code security startup BluBracket. Founded by the team behind Vera Security, BluBracket raised a $12 million Series A round led…
What does selling to platform engineering teams mean for developer relations?
How should dev-centric startups sell their product to platform engineering teams?
Qualified raises $95M to help Salesforce users with sales pipeline generation
Lead generation is a critical cornerstone in the world of sales — in a seemingly infinite sea of potential customers, you need to know who wants to buy, or who…
Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction
For founders, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech stocks, and the inevitable impact on private company fundraising might seem disheartening.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Tested TAM tips, no-code tech survey, writing crypto white papers
For most products, TAM is presented in nine figures or more, but when you’re planning to disrupt a billion-dollar market, these numbers can create a lot of cognitive dissonance.
Selling to developers is no longer a sure path to insane valuation multiples
Product-led growth is a big deal these days as startups are trying to find ways to grow without spending all their capital on advertising and sales staffing. But it’s no…
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Nubank, HashiCorp provide startup market with end-of-year IPO wins
We need to grok how 2021 ended to understand where 2022 begins.
SenseTime’s IPO to test market demand for high-growth, high-loss shares in Hong Kong
The larger context for SenseTime’s debut is that it is going public after the Chinese government cracked down on a number of tech sectors in the country.
HashiCorp’s IPO will place it among the most richly valued open source tech companies
You can argue that HashiCorp deserves its 44x revenue run rate multiple, if you’d like. It wouldn’t be impossible to make an argument that it’s a bit rich, but this…
Vercel raises $150M Series D as it looks to build an end-to-end front-end development platform
Only a few months ago, Vercel, the company behind the popular Next.js framework for front-end developers, announced a $102 million Series C funding round that took its valuation to $1.1…
TechCrunch+ roundup: Deep tech predictions, HashiCorp’s IPO, enterprisewide AI
If you believe you have a good idea for a startup, go for it. When venture capitalists say this is a good time to be a founder, you know they…
HashiCorp’s IPO filing reveals a growing business, but at a slower pace
To understand HashiCorp’s performance, we’ll need to spend a minute talking about how it approaches the market. If you are a fan of open source software (OSS), it should be…
Last day to snag early-bird passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
Don’t miss your chance to experience TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 — the startup world’s must-attend event of the season — for less than $100. Why not get the best ROI of…
Microsoft’s Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0
Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open-source project that aims to make it easier for developers to build event-driven, distributed cloud-native applications, hit its 1.0 milestone today, signifying the project’s readiness for production…
It’s time to shift focus from delivering software to delighting customers. Welcome to a new era of modern software delivery.
HashiCorp to offer managed versions of its developer tools starting with Consul
HashiCorp is well known in the developer community for offering a slew of open-source tools to help build and manage modern applications. Today the company announced a new cloud platform…
What we’re getting right and wrong about coronavirus and VC investing
It has only been nine days since I wrote an overview of the state of VC investing during the rise of the novel coronavirus pandemic. And what a week it…
HashiCorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round
The rise of the cloud over the past decade has forced software developers and DevOps engineers to completely rearchitect the modern web application, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. That’s a…
Service mesh is just beginning to take hold in the cloud-native world, and as it does, vendors are looking for ways to help customers understand it. One way to simplify…
HashiCorp expands Terraform free version, adds paid tier for SMBs
HashiCorp has had a free tier for its Terraform product in the past, but it was basically for a single user. Today, the company announced it was expanding that free…
Services meshes. They are the hot new thing in the cloud native computing world. At KubeCon, the bi-annual festival of all things cloud native, Microsoft today announced that it is…
How open-source software took over the world
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed…
HashiCorp, the company that has made hay developing open-source tools for managing cloud infrastructure, obviously has a pretty hefty commercial business going too. Today the company announced an enormous $100…
HashiCorp raises $40M for its cloud infrastructure automation services
HashiCorp is probably best known for Terraform, its open-source tool for automatically provisioning infrastructure by describing it as code. But the company also offers a whole range of additional open-source…
HashiCorp raises $24M for its DevOps infrastructure software
HashiCorp, which offers a number of tools that help developers write and deploy their applications (including the popular open-source Vagrant tool for setting up development environments), today announced that it…
