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Yotascale raises a $13M Series B to help companies track and manage their cloud spends

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Instead, you farm out your infrastructure needs to the major cloud platforms, namely Amazon AWS , Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. That’s all well and good, but over time, any startup’s cloud setup will become more complex, varied and perhaps multi-provider. What’s coming from the company?

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Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs

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” Area 120 was created by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in March 2016 with the goal of creating experimental apps and services that could be later folded into established profit drivers. . “Employees in the U.S. “Our managing partner of Area 120 remains at the company.”

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Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M

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” Based in San Francisco, Replit was co-founded by programmers Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and designer Haya Odeh in 2016. Ghostwriter appears to be the driver behind Replit’s recent explosive growth, leading to a partnership with Google Cloud and a user base eclipsing 22 million developers.

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud. Ross also mentioned Quip, a company Salesforce acquired in 2016, which embeds collaborative business process documents, spreadsheet and chat inside of Salesforce. “Customers don’t want to talk to sellers.

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Nobl9 raises $21M Series B for its SLO management platform

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Before starting Nobl9, co-founders Marcin Kurc (CEO) and Brian Singer (CPO) spent time together at Orbitera, where Singer was the co-founder and COO and Kurc the CEO, and then at Google Cloud, after it acquired Orbitera in 2016.

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Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app

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million Series A round in 2016 (Learn Capital and Prosus Ventures). Drive Capital led the round, with participation from past backers from Sololearn’s previous $1.2 Of note, Drive Capital was co-founded by two alums from Sequoia out of Columbus, Ohio, with a mission to focus on founders outside of the “usual” hubs. .”

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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. The service itself runs on Google Cloud and the 25-people team manages about 50,000 jobs per day for its clients.