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Render raises $4.5M for its DevOps platform

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Render , the winner of our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield, today announced that it has added another $4.5 The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner.

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

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billion in its October, 2019 Series F when it raised $400 million. The former startup reached a run rate of around $350 million at the end of Q3 2020, up from $200 million in revenue in Q3 2019, putting it on a rapid growth pace for a former startup of its size. Or, perhaps a company wants to find patterns in some economic data.

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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

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In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

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The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. The San Francisco-based company is currently active in some of the fastest-growing housing markets in the U.S.

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Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across Africa

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Over 100,000 engineers have taken part in the company’s learning network and community, and, as of 2019, Andela had more than 1,500 engineers on its payroll. In September 2019, it let go of 420 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.

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HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

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Sestito, the former director of threat research at Cylance and VP of engineering at Qualys, co-founded the company several months ago with Tanner Burns and Jim Ballard. “Adversarial machine learning attacks are not loud like ransomware — you have to be looking for them to catch them in time,” Sestito said.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

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“We find ourselves in an extremely good place to have the right solution that meets the market needs.” They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

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