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IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2)

Austin Startup

rather than simply being screens to edit data from a database. Funding Follows Growth and Acquisitions The big fundraising event in this space in the first part of 2021 was Camunda and their $100 million series B round. Acquisitions like this start to make the math for Camunda’s fundraise make a lot of sense.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

.” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. Tomorrow, that billion-dollar startup acquisition might not need an engineer at all. You name it.”

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. Because they are open source. Google has optimized this open source to freemium model in almost all of its products.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). Of course there are exceptions?—?last

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The best-known example of SDN probably is  Nicira , not in the least because of their $1 billion acquisition by VMWare. And finally we have all kinds of middleware that facilitate the storage of data, like database management systems in all their flavors (ranging from relational to document- and key/value-oriented storage).

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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A

Austin Startup

million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc., the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5

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