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Oma Fertility to speak on building a better IVF experience on TechCrunch Live
Join TechCrunch Live on March 29 at 12 pm PDT to hear Oma Fertility’s Gurjeet Singh and Chrissy Meyer of Root Ventures speak on building a better IVF experience.
Code editors are complex and demanding pieces of software, but from a business standpoint, they’re notoriously difficult to monetize. At the same time, they haven’t kept pace with recent trends…
Kubernetes development platform Okteto raises $15M Series A
Okteto, a startup that makes it easier for developers to quickly spin up Kubernetes-based development environments in order to speed up their development process, today announced that it has raised…
Superconductive, creators of Great Expectations, nabs $40M for a commercial version of its open source data quality tool
Data quality — the practice of testing and ensuring that the data and data sets you are using are what you expect them to be — has become a key…
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…
AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one
The idea behind the company was to get engineers back to spending the majority of their time designing and building hardware products.
Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product
The company saw an 18-month time period of rapid growth, which included seeing from 10 times to 30 times growth across all the metrics Daily tracks.
DevOps market demand drives quick Series C turnaround for Esper
CEO Yadhu Gopalan said Insight proactively approached the company, and Esper “jumped at the opportunity to partner with them to accelerate our trajectory and predict market growth quicker.”
There may be billions of IoT devices in use today, but the tooling around building (and updating) the software for them still leaves a lot to be desired. Esper, which…
ChargeLab raises seed capital to be the software provider powering EV charging infrastructure
As money floods into the electric vehicle market a number of small companies are trying to stake their claim as the go-to provider of charging infrastructure. These companies are developing…
Startups that deliver their service via an API are having a moment. Or perhaps a year. Speaking with founders and investors this year, it has become clear that the API…
Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Last November, we surveyed 13…
What’s beyond Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods in the future of food?
The age of alternative meats is upon us. Beyond Meat is a $5 billion public company selling burgers in Canadian McDonald’s and American Carl’s Jr., breakfast sausages in Dunkin, and…
Root Ventures, a young SF firm focused on ‘hard tech,’ just closed a much bigger second fund with $76.7 million
Root Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture firm that closed its debut fund with $30 million in 2015, has raised a second fund, closing it with $76.7269 million dollars in capital…
