databases
Ariga is helping developers define database schema as code
As companies look to update their databases, especially in a cloud native context, with so many different databases out there, it’s a huge challenge for developers when migrating from one environmen
AWS announces new version of Aurora database that strips out I/O costs
AWS announced the general availability of a new version of its Aurora database this week called Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized. The big news from this version is that it gets rid of all I/O charges for d
DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity
When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. The open source produ
Google Cloud’s AlloyDB Omni lets you run its PostgreSQL-compatible database anywhere
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is Google Cloud’s fully managed cloud-based database service. And typically, that’s where the story ends with these born-in-the-cloud services. But Google Cloud is t
Omni looks to take on Looker with its cloud-powered BI platform
There’s been an explosion of business intelligence (BI) tools in recent years, or tools that analyze and convert raw data into info for use in decision making. Investments in them are on the ris
Rill wants to rethink BI dashboards with embedded database and instant UX
The founders of Rill first got into databases a decade ago when they started a company called Metamarkets, which was eventually snapped up by Snap in 2017. While at Metamarkets, the company built a da
NFT summer in New York is in full swing amid crypto winter
The NFT NYC conference this week has brought hordes of web3 enthusiasts to Times Square in an extravagant celebration that stands out against the much-less-exuberant crypto market. There have been yac
Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity
The pledge encourages VCs to invest a quarter of their funds into BIPOC women founders.
This is the beginning of the unbundled database era
The enterprise wants to store everything they can in the hopes of being able to deliver improved customer experiences and new market capabilities.
Revenue-based financing platform Bloom secures $377M Series A led by Credo and Fortress
While the likes of Pipe are reaching multi-billion valuations, European revenue-based financing is experiencing as much of a boom as it is in the U.S. U.K.-based startup platform Bloom has now secured
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With new serverless database, Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services
When AWS launched its storage offering in 2006, it began a march to offer compute, storage and database services in the cloud. Google, Microsoft, Alibaba and IBM, among others, would follow. One playe
NetApp acquires Instaclustr to deliver open source databases as a service
Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr, a Californi
Pinecone announces $28M Series A for purpose-built database aimed at data scientists
When Pinecone launched last year, the company’s message was around building a serverless vector database designed specifically for the needs of data scientists. While that database is at the cor
PopSQL aims to be a modern data team’s best friend
PopSQL enables users to connect to the database, write a SQL query and easily share it with others.
ApertureData is building a database focused on images with $3M seed
When Vishakha Gupta and her co-founder Luis Remis were working together at Intel Labs in 2016, they were charged with figuring out how to manage growing amounts of visual data (images and video). As t
PalmPay raised $100M Series A last August, claims to have 5 million users
Africa-focused payments startup PalmPay raised a $100 million Series A round last year. TechCrunch spotted this news in Partech Africa’s latest end-of-year report on venture capital investments in A
Canva acquires Flourish in mission to tell better stories with data
The acquisition comes as the visual communications company reached over 75 million monthly active users, up over 30 million in the past 12 months.
BigPanda gets its horn after securing $190M in fresh capital
The company’s technology transforms huge volumes of IT data into actionable insight and automates incident management so IT operations teams can be proactive about their response processes.
‘Pfeffel’ artist satirizes Boris Johnson with parody NFTs, sending 52% of proceeds to charity
As crazy as the NFT market has become, there’s been an increasing range of other things to do with NFTs other than pimp images of apes and punks — even if they have become enormously valuable.