Monday January 13, 2025

Luminoso Lands $6.5M In Series A To Keep Building Cloud Text Analytics Service

 Luminoso, a Cambridge, MA-based text analytics company announced $6.5M in Series A funding today, led by Acadia Woods with Digital Garage also participating. That brings their total funds raised to $8M. Luminoso was born out of research at the MIT Media Labs and spun off in 2010. After getting their seed funding in 2012, they […]

CoreOS Raises $8M Series A Round, Launches Managed Linux As A Service

 CoreOS, a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on investments by Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. This comes after a previous investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital last year. Read More […]

Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data

 Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to […]

CloudPhysics Grabs $15M In Series C Funding And Announces New Virtual Storage Predictive Analytics

 CloudPhysics has a vision for the data center: It wants to give sysadmins clarity and insight into possible issues that create bottlenecks in a virtualized environment, offer solutions when they happen, and help prevent issues before they even happen — all as a cloud service. Read More Tweet This Post

ThoughtSpot Grabs $30M In Series B Funding To Modernize Business Intelligence

 ThoughtSpot, a startup that hopes to modernize the way companies do business intelligence, announced $30 million in Series B funding today led by Khosla Ventures with help from existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding brings its total to $40.7 million to date. As part of the deal, Keith Rabois, who is a partner at […]

Freshdesk Snags $31M in Series D Funding To Continue Building Customer Support Services

 Freshdesk, the customer support as a service company with 23,000 customers, raised $31 million in Series D funding today in a round led by Tiger Global Management, with Accel Partners and Google Capital also contributing. The funding is significant, especially given its total to date was $44 million and the highest amount the company had […]

ExtraHop Raises $41M Series C Round For Its Real-Time IT Analytics Service

 Seattle-based ExtraHop, a service that offers real-time analytics based on analyzing data right off the wire instead of using software that runs on the server, today announced that it has raised a $41 million Series C round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). While TCV may not be a household name, the company has previously […]

ElasticSearch Scores $70M In Series C To Fund Growth Spurt

 ElasticSearch announced $70M in Series C funding today just 18 months after forming the company. Company executives say they will use the money to continue to drive their phenomenal growth. This round is being led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Additional funders include Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures. It brings total funding to date to $104M. It’s said […]

Instart Logic Bags $26M in Series C Funding To Continue Reinventing Content Delivery Networks

 Content delivery network company Instart Logic today received $26 million in Series C funding from KPCB, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tenaya Capital. The Series C is in addition to $17 million the company raised in earlier rounds. Instart Logic is developing a new way of dealing with the Content Delivery Network concept. Generally, companies build out… […]

Sift Science Lands $18M Series B From Spark Capital To Stop Credit Card Fraud

 Today Sift Science, a credit card fraud prevention company, has closed an $18 million Series B round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Max Levchin, and First Round Capital. But what exactly is Sift Science? Read More Tweet This Post