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A large chunk of the internet dropped offline on Thursday. Some of the most popular sites, apps and services on the internet were down, including UPS and FedEx (which have…
Vantage raises $4M to help businesses understand their AWS costs
Vantage, a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. A number of…
Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations
Merge, a startup that helps its users build customer-facing integrations with third-party tools, today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by NEA. Additional angel investors…
Cloudflare rallies the troops to fight off another so-called patent troll
Nearly four years ago, we wrote about a battle between Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based internet security and performance company, and Blackbird Technologies, a firm that quickly amassed dozens of patents, then began…
Cloudflare introduces free digital waiting rooms for any organizations distributing COVID-19 vaccines
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare is releasing a new tool today that aims to provide a way for health agencies and organizations globally tasked with rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to maintain…
Venrock’s Bryan Roberts on the firm’s new $450 million fund, and where it’s shopping in 2021
Venrock, the 51-year-old firm that started as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family, has closed its ninth fund with $450 million, the same amount it raised for its last…
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Pages, a platform to deploy and host JAMstack sites
Cloudflare is launching a new product today called Cloudflare Pages. It competes directly with Netlify or Vercel, two cloud hosting companies that let you build and deploy sites using JAMstack…
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes in internet privacy that many don’t know even exists.…
Cloudflare is testing a Netlify competitor to host Jamstack sites
Cloudflare is working on a new product called Cloudflare Pages. The new product could compete directly with Netlify and Vercel, two cloud hosting companies that let you build and deploy…
Cloudflare lets you control where data is stored and accessible
Cloudflare has launched a new set of features today called the Data Localization Suite. Companies on the Enterprise plan can choose to enable the features through an add-on. With the…
The web of collaboration apps invading remote work toolkits have led to plenty of messy workflows for teams that communicate in a language of desktop screenshots and DMs. Tracing a…
Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn on getting funding for crazy ideas
It’s not easy getting funding for any startup, but when Cloudflare launched at one of our early events 10 years ago, most investors sure thought its idea was a bit…
Your first sales hire should be a missionary, not a mercenary
The first sales hire will set the best practices, cultural tone and is also responsible for making sure each subsequent new sales hire succeeds.
LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M
Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown.…
Decrypted: Uber’s former security chief charged, FBI’s ‘vishing’ warning
A lot happened in cybersecurity over the past week. The University of Utah paid almost half a million dollars to stop hackers from leaking sensitive student data after a ransomware…
Meet the Disrupt 2020 ‘TC10’
If 2020 hasn’t been wild enough, there’s an extra special twist going down at Disrupt 2020 beyond the fact that, for the first time ever, the conference will be fully…
Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn to discuss building a company with a bold idea at TechCrunch Disrupt
When you start a company, it can be tempting to keep it simple. You want something that investors and customers can easily understand. While it might be easier to go…
Hear Cloudflare and PlanGrid’s amazing journey from founding to exit at Disrupt 2020
How and when should startup founders think about the “exit”? It’s the perennial question in tech entrepreneurialism, but the hows and whens are questions to which there are a multitude…
Stanford students are short-circuiting VC firms by investing in their peers
Stanford’s success in spinning out startup founders is a well-known adage in Silicon Valley, with alumni founding companies like Google, Cisco, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and, yes, even TechCrunch. And…
Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, the next evolution of its serverless platform
Cloudflare today announced the private beta launch of Workers Unbound, the latest step in its efforts to offer a serverless platform that can compete with the likes of AWS Lambda.…
Cloudflare DNS goes down, taking a large piece of the internet with it
Many major websites and services were unreachable for a period Friday afternoon due to issues at Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. The outage seems to have started at about 2:15 Pacific…
Apple, Biden, Musk and other high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in crypto scam
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts — some with millions of followers — to spread a cryptocurrency scam. Apple,…
Ade Ajao, Maryanna Saenko, Charles Hudson, Ulili Onovakpuri and Melissa Bradley are coming to Disrupt
At TechCrunch Disrupt, our Startup Battlefield event is the centerpiece of the event, the true heart of this signature program. There’s good reason we take it so seriously. Over the…
Databricks acquires Redash, a visualizations service for data scientists
Data and analytics service Databricks today announced that it has acquired Redash, a company that helps data scientists and analysts visualize their data and build dashboards around it. Redash’s customers…
FirstMark Capital announces new funds with a fresh $650 million in investment capital
FirstMark Capital, the New York-based VC firm whose portfolio includes Shopify, Riot Games, Pinterest, Airbnb, InVision and more, has today announced the close of its two newest investment vehicles. FirstMark…
SaaS businesses uniquely benefited from falling infrastructure costs, superior business models, low interest rates and a shift from on-premise IT systems, but these tailwinds won’t last forever.
Decrypted: DEA spying on protesters, DDoS attacks, Signal downloads spike
This week saw protests spread across the world sparked by the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis last month. The…
Cloudflare partners with JD to expand its network in China
Cloudflare today announced a new partnership with JD Cloud & AI that will see the company expand its network in Chinato an additional 150 data centers. Currently, Cloudflare is available…
Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class
Internet security company Cloudflare has pledged to double its Summer 2020 internship class, and make the entire program remote if necessary, in response to cancellations of internships programs across the…
Early-stage founders: Don’t miss your chance to follow in the footsteps of tech giants. We know COVID-19 has created challenges for startup founders, but fear not. Disrupt SF is still…
