New Relic CEO Lew Cirne asked himself a question upon embarking on developing a new startup inside the company he co-founded. He wondered: “How would Jack Dorsey do it?” Dorsey started Twitter and then Square. He is now Twitter’s chairman and runs Square, too. He innovates arguably more than any CEO in the startup world. And he had a system Cirne could use. Today, Dorsey’s system… → Read More
Here’s the thing about simplicity. It’s all relative. A developer’s idea of simplicity is different from a finance chief or a customer service agent. I run across a variety of startups in my daily work at TechCrunch. But few have that innate sense of elegance or the capability to abstract complexity to such an extent that anything else seems antiquated in comparison. Here are 10… → Read More
New Relic has launched a new service for monitoring the performance of native mobile apps that the company claims can better track customer reviews on the iOS and Android app stores.
New Relic for Mobile Apps visualizes in real-time how an iOS or Android app is performing across services such as Facebook, different operating systems and in the any other variety of ways an app can be affected… → Read More
AppDynamics has added a new capability to solve application issues without manual intervention.
Wit the new Application Run Book Automation, the customer pre-defines the conditions for the service to execute. → Read More
New Relic has some pretty sweet digs in my hometown of Portland, high above the city on the 28th floor of the US Bank Tower. Couches are in the corners for engineers to chat and share ideas. Lacquered, clear-stained tree stumps are set up in another corner, looking over the Willamette River. → Read More
Another big enterprise deal to report as New Relic, an app performance monitoring service, has raised $80 million analyzing and is looking at an IPO. → Read More
CA Technologies has filed a lawsuit against New Relic, the application lifecycle management company. CA is seeking “undisclosed damages” for lost profits. It is also seeking an injunction against New Relic prohibiting the infringement of CA patents and the misuse of the company’s intellectual property. In other words, CA wants a judge to shut down New Relic. → Read More
New Relic has added the capability to monitor data across multiple applications and systems for deeper, more detailed views — another sign that the new era of Internet models is taking the enterprise by storm. → Read More
It’s a good time to be a nerd. The “nerd economy,” as we’re now calling it, is slowly but surely paving the way for geeks and nerds and nerd-geeks to someday rule the world. At long last. For me, it can’t come fast enough.
Until that day comes, nerds will certainly rule at next week’s Disrupt SF event. Not only will Facebook’s very own Mark Zuckerberg be there, but many, many more incredibly… → Read More
Hey guess what? It’s Friday! This year’s Disrupt SF is going to be action-packed, filled with interesting talks with amazing speakers and special guests, a stellar Startup Battlefield competition, unforgettable after parties, and much more. We’ve partnered with New Relic (who already disrupted their corner of the enterprise software market) to make an offer we think you’ll love. They’re giving… → Read More
New Relic, one of a number of startups that have emerged in the last 5 years to address the costly, patchwork BS of old-school enterprise monitoring solutions, gives developers an easy, cloud-based way to keep tabs on their apps in realtime — without breaking the bank.
Of course, while any old monitoring and analytics service might bring that measurable 5 to 10 percent performance boost, what… → Read More
New Relic, a SaaS-based cloud application management platform, has raised $15 million in funding led by DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group with participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital, Trinity Ventures, Tenaya Capital and Allen & Company. This brings New Relic’s total funding to $35 million.
New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance tool that lets developers… → Read More
What do Groupon, Zynga, Airbnb, Crunchbase and LinkedIn have in common? They know site performance is critical to their success, so they use New Relic app monitoring to make sure their apps are quick and fast. Every second on the web counts and New Relic has been on a tear since raising $10 million in October from Benchmark, Allen & Co., and Trinity Ventures. They now measure over 20 billion… → Read More
The bad news for startups keeps on coming in. This time it’s RubyOnRails application hosting provider Engine Yard that has laid off 15% of its staff, as publicly reported on the company’s blog earlier this week. We’ve contacted co-founder Lance Walley and can confirm that 12 out of 82 people have been let go, across several departments.
The TechCrunch Layoff Tracker has been updated… → Read More
New Relic, a company that focuses on helping Rails developers optimize and maintain their code, has closed a $6 million Series B funding round led by Trinity Ventures, with existing investor Benchmark Capital also participating. After a $3.5 million Series A round earlier this year, the round brings New Relic’s total funding to around $9.5 million. As part of the deal Trinity’s Dan Scholnick… → Read More
Engine Yard, a platform to build, manage and host Rails applications, raised a $15 million Series B round of funding from new investors New Enterprise Associates and Amazon. Previous investor Benchmark Capital also participated – Engine Yard has now raised $18.5 million in capital. Engine Yard competitors Heroku and New Relic have also raised capital this year. Amazon’s investment is… → Read More
New Relic is looking to capitalize on the growing number of Ruby on Rails application deployments, having recently raised $3.5M from Benchmark Capital for their Rails Performance Management (RPM) product. RPM is a combination of installed software and cloud services that helps developers understand performance problems in their RoR applications. A Rails developer first installs a standard plugin… → Read More
Seattle, WA
San Diego, CA
Menlo Park, CA
Berlin, Germany
San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
