By: Logan Bartlett, Sai Senthilkumar, and Adele Li The Ink: Cyera’s $100M Series B funding Investors: Logan Bartlett, Sai Senthilkumar and Adele Li The problem: With the migration to the cloud, data consumption and operationalization has exploded along with the proliferation of purpose-built data stores for differing workloads. Statistica estimated…

The Ink: GreenPlaces’ $13M Series A funding Investors: Annie Kadavy, Medha Agarwal, and Meera Clark The Scoop: GreenPlaces is a software platform for managing a company’s sustainability measurement, reporting, verification, and offsetting / reduction efforts. …

By: Erica Brescia and Jacob Effron The Ink: Jason Warner incubates new AI company, Poolside, at Redpoint Increasing output to date: Software has already revolutionized the way we communicate, collaborate, transact, discover and learn. And while very early innings, AI has recently improved the way we create software. Large language…

The Ink: Fixie’s $17M seed funding Investors: Erica Brescia and Jordan Segall The scoop: Language Learning Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have clearly taken the world by storm. People are already using them to automate content creation, plan travel, get answers to complex questions, write code and so much more. However…

Alt: Fresh Ink! Welcoming DragonflyDB, builders of the best in-memory store in the universe The ink: DragonflyDB’s $21M in new funding Investors: Satish Dharmaraj and Jordan Segall The scoop: DragonflyDB is rethinking what an in-memory datastore should look and behave like, with the goal of building something significantly more performant…

By: Patrick Chase and Erica Brescia The ink: Zed’s $10M Series A funding Investors: Patrick Chase and Erica Brescia The scoop: Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. The Zeditors: It’s incredibly rare to come across a team that has made it…

By: Tomasz Tunguz and Patrick Chase My laptop is faster than your cloud. For the last ten years, the data ecosystem has focused on big data — the bigger the data set, the more exciting. But most workloads aren’t massive. Instead of requiring a scale-out database in the sky, most…

By: Annie Kadavy and Urvashi Barooah E-commerce as a % of overall retail has almost tripled in the last decade. There are now about 59 million packages delivered every day in the US. In a country where there are 130 million households, that means 1 box is on the doorstep…

By: Urvashi Barooah and Satish Dharmaraj Blockchains have seen tremendous growth in the past few years. Today–even amidst a downturn–more than $2B is transacted on just the ethereum network on a daily basis. Yet, network reliability is a huge issue. Just last week, Solana had a 6 hour long outage…