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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

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Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Fubini helped cofound the outfit with a handful of others.) Now he’s turning the enterprise into a bigger organization.

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

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Fleet , a startup offering a service that helps to track and manage enterprise devices like laptops, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by CRV with participation from angel investors including GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij. ” Growing user base.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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million in seed funding to make its mission a reality, with backers including OSS Capital; Lux Capital; Sisu Game Ventures; and — somewhat notably — Bob Young , the cofounder and former CEO of Red Hat, an enterprise-focused open-source company that IBM went on to acquire for $34 billion in 2019. Godot editor demo.

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Traceable AI nabs $60M to secure app APIs using machine learning

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The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product development, recruitment, and customer acquisition. billion) and Harness (which recently raised a $230 million Series D).

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

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One of the biggest challenges enterprises face is processing all the data that they gather, and — by extension — deriving insights from that data. The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. Image Credits: Enso.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

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An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. Freddy Mallet, SonarSource’s second cofounder, was a project architect at E-Trade and CTO at agtech startup Hortis.

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Papaya wants to help electrify last-mile logistics in Europe

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Soft-launched back in February, Papaya’s software is designed to help fleet operators source and manage electric or light-electric vehicles (LEVs), solving something that cofounder and CEO Santi Ureta says is usually “highly fragmented and opaque.” million from a slew of institutional and angel investors. .