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Databricks crossed $350M run rate in Q3, up from $200M one year ago

TechCrunch

Ghodsi took over as CEO in 2016 after serving as the company’s VP of engineering. Let’s say that a company has a lot of data on its machinery and wants to know when different pieces are going to fail. Or, perhaps a company wants to find patterns in some economic data. He’s also a co-founder.

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Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists

TechCrunch

Shinji Kim, the sole founder and CEO, explained that the tool is a solution to a problem she has seen directly in corporate data science teams. She formerly founded Concord Systems, a real-time data processing startup that was acquired by Akamai in 2016. Photo via Select Star.

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DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity

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Krupenya says this capability puts data administration in reach of not just the most technical data engineers, but also people in other lines of business roles, who normally might not have access to tools like this. “So So actually anyone who needs to work with data can use DBeaver,” she told TechCrunch.

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No-code business intelligence service y42 raises $2.9M seed round

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So out of that frustration, I decided to develop an internal tool that was actually quite usable and in 2016, I decided to turn it into an actual company. . “I was using tools like Tableau and Alteryx, and it was really hard to glue them together — and they were quite expensive.

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TinyML: The challenges and opportunities of low-power ML applications

O'Reilly Media - Data

Terms that relate to data engineering, data management, and data analytics dominate the top tiers of proposal topics. Data engineering is an intense focus of interest and innovation, with data-in-motion—e.g., stream, time-series—starting to displace the batch-centric, data-at-rest paradigm.

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Manta, a data observability startup, raises $35M to grow its workforce

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Manta was founded in 2016 by Kratky, who previously led R&D at Profinit, a data science consultancy based in Czechia. The goal, he said, was to tackle the complexity of enterprise data environments with maps of data dependencies designed to help users avoid “major data incidents.”

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Inc. 5000 Series DC Metro Recognizes AgileEngine as a Regional Leader

Agile Engine

AgileEngine occupies the 176th position in this year’s Inc 5000 Series for DC Metro based on the company’s 70% growth in 2016–2018. In comparison, the growth rate of the greater economy averaged 10% in 2016–2018. Headquartered in McLean, AgileEngine has grown from 121 to 300+ people in 2016–2018. Named the Inc.

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