Metrics alone don’t help you build a business. They can help you set targets, but they do little to help you hit those targets.
Lisbon VC Indico Capital Partners is launching a climate tech fund — dubbed the Indico Blue Fund. The €50 million VC and growth equity fund will target “Blue Economy” (technology t
Small and medium businesses regularly face cashflow problems. But if that’s an already inconvenient predicament, it has been exacerbated to the breaking point for too many during the COVID-19 pa
This morning DigitalOcean, a provider of cloud computing services to SMBs, filed to go public. The company intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “DOCN.
VPNs are in high demand as Americans scramble to keep access to TikTok and WeChat amid a looming government ban. There are dozens of free VPNs out there that promise to protect your privacy by keeping
Earlier today, DigitalOcean announced that it raised $50 million more from prior investors Access Industries and Andreessen Horowitz. The capital comes after the SMB and developer-focused cloud infras
Before the hyperclouds, there were Linode, Mediatemple, HostGator and seemingly a million other hosting services that let you rent affordable virtual private servers for your development needs. And wh
I really wish I hadn’t had cause to write this piece, but it recently came to my attention, in an especially unfortunate way, that death in the modern era can have a complex and difficult techni
Jonathan Keidan, the founder of Torch Capital, had already built a portfolio that included Acorns, Compass, Digital Ocean and Sweetgreen, before he raised single dollar for his inaugural venture capit
Like any ambitious cloud infrastructure player, Digital Ocean also recently announced a solution for running Kubernetes clusters on its platform. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Barcelona, the c
Say hello to the Bandwidth Alliance, a new group led by Cloudflare that promises to reduce the price of bandwidth for many cloud customers. The overall idea here is that customers who use both Cloudfl
AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service
Digital Ocean today announced Spaces, its object storage service. This complements the company's block storage service. Both of these services have different use cases, of course; unlike the block sto
Following the violent far right demonstrations in Charlottesville at the weekend, another two web services companies have terminated their business relationships with the Nazi propaganda website, The
As the market continues to mature, and as we watch a blossoming of SaaS activity in New York City, we believe that NYC is poised to become a genuine leader in the formation of companies leading the ne
DigitalOcean today announced that it has secured $10 million in equipment financing from CapX Partners. CapX previously invested in DigitalOcean's $3.2 million seed round in 2013. The announcement com
Meatspace, an addictive new web service and mobile app is part Snapchat, part Twitter and part animated gifs. It works like this: You write an update in 250 characters or less and then pose for the ca
<a target="_blank" href="http://digitalocean.com">DigitalOcean</a>, the quickly growing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalocean.com/features">SSD-only</a> web hosting and cloud infrastructur
There are two camps in the cloud world. There are the cloud washers, which are the ones who put a cloud sticker on everything. They say, “Oh, yes, it’s a private cloud for big data.” Then they t
Digital Ocean, one of the fastest-growing cloud hosting services around, today announced that it has raised a $3.2 million seed round led by IA Ventures, with participation from CrunchFund and TechSta
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