Cockroach Labs, the company behind the open source distributed SQL database CockroachDB, has raised $ 86.6 million in a series D round of funding co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bond. Alphabet’s venture capital arm, GV, also participated in the round, having co-led its $ 55 million series C round back …
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Templafy, a Danish startup that helps anyone in a company create new documents while adhering to branding and legal guidelines, has raised $ 25 million in a series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. The raise comes as companies around the world have been forced to swiftly adapt …
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Privitar, a U.K. startup that helps companies embed privacy protection into their data projects, has raised $ 80 million in a series C round of funding led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from Accel, Partech, IQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and ABN AMRO Ventures. Founded in 2014, London-based Privitar enables companies …
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Folding@home software for donating compute for medical research passed 1 million downloads, director Greg Bowman said in a tweet today. The Folding@home Consortium is made up of 11 laboratories around the world studying the molecular structure of diseases like cancer, ALS, and influenza. Research into COVID-19 started earlier this month. …
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The Sandbox has raised $ 2.01 million in cash and cryptocurrency so that it can built out its blockchain-based game world, dubbed The Sandbox. The company raised the money as TSB Gaming, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, in the third quarter of last year, and it’s reporting it now as …
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UserTesting, a platform that helps companies get on-demand user feedback on their software and applications, has raised $ 100 million in a round of funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Accel, OpenView, and Greenspring. Founded in 2007, San Francisco-based UserTesting promises software companies instant access to users spanning …
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Beat Saber is one of virtual reality’s biggest hits, and the laser-sword rhythm dancing game has now reached a major sales milestone. Developer Beat Games Studio revealed today on Twitter that Beat Saber surpassed 2 million copies sold. Fans have also purchased more than 10 million songs as downloadable content. …
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This week, a team of scientists at Salesforce published a study detailing an AI system — ProGen — they say is capable of generating proteins in a “controllable fashion,” such that it could unlock new approaches to protein engineering. If their claims pan out, it could lay the groundwork for …
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SiLC Technologies, a silicon photonics startup specializing in photonic sensor and 3D imaging applications, today announced that it has closed a $ 12 million seed financing round. Founder and CEO Mehdi Asghari says that it’ll allow the company to refine its 4D+ Vision Chip lidar sensor, which it claims exceeds …
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