FundersClub

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: GitLab announced its $100M Series D, led by ICONIQ, and minting it a new $B portfolio company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The space we’re describing is broad, including companies like Hashicorp, which went public last year and builds developer tools relating to infrastructure and security. GitLab also went public last year on the back of its git-style code repo service for devs. Gitlab once valued >$15B now $5.5B, ARR run rate $268M.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The company has a freemium business model and will also be rolling out a business plan this fall for $16 per user per month. Prior to starting Vowel, Berman was one of the founders of baby monitor company Nanit. The company had teams spread out around the world, and communication was tough as a result.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

And it’s where you’ll find our many partner companies to help you realize that growth. Peruse the pivotal partners at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 We’re fortunate to partner with some of the startup world’s leading companies to help make magic at Disrupt. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses with open source at their core. Take PostCSS, a widely popular CSS framework built by Andrey Sitnik.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Successful companies such as Hashicorp, JFrog, Elastic, MongoDB and Gitlab have demonstrated the power of open source models. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies. This enables open source companies to acquire a vast, free user base.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Yesterday, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitted to a reporter that this didn’t feel like the right moment to take his buy now, pay later company public. “I In his view, “the public market for BNPL companies actually feels pretty damn strong at the moment.” Last year, these companies were racing up the charts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

A series of negative signals about the value of technology companies, the stinging cost of slowing growth at tech concerns, and several ancillary signals from the more speculative regions of the tech market sum to a dramatically changed market. It’s worth remembering just how wild the last two years have been in startup land.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

General Catalyst is widely recognized as one of the top venture capital firms, with portfolio companies that include Snap, Kayak, Airbnb, Stripe, HubSpot and GitLab. Boyce has been with General Catalyst since 2013, leading investments in companies like Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

French mobile gaming company Homa Games raised $50 million on the back of huge download numbers. And ahead we have the GitLab direct listing, and AvidExchange IPO. Mono gets the Tiger imprimatur , which matters, as the startup could prove that the Plaid model will spawn regional players. Chat you on Wednesday!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The list is big: Postman co-founder and chief executive Asthana told TechCrunch that 98% of the Fortune 500 companies are customers of Postman. “We Big companies tend to be slower as they have many other things on their plate,” he told me two years ago. We are solving a fundamental problem for the technology landscape.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB), a SaaS platform for DevOps, completed a successful public listing on October 14, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are many tasks still being performed manually, with engineers spending a good chunk of time on paperwork and spreadsheets, so the idea behind the company was to get engineers back to spending the majority of their time designing and building hardware products, Ratner said. In total, the company has brought in $3.8

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500

MARCH 18, 2020

On March 16th, 500 had the opportunity to lead a chat with Darren Murph, the Head of Working Remote at GitLab. Due to the novel COVID-19 virus, many companies are adapting their workforces to be partially, if not completely, remote. The post Tools and Tips for Working Remotely From 500 & GitLab appeared first on 500 Startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

January 2020 seems like a long time ago: Billie Eilish swept the Grammy Awards, Tesla’s market cap made it America’s most valuable car company, and Visa announced plans to purchase Plaid for $5.3 Despite the outcome not being what we predicted when we went in, I think we as a company grew a lot and learned a lot,” said Perret.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

In her latest TC+ post , she broke down the steps required to capture these key metrics that will “show prospective investors how they stand to gain from investing in your company, and put yourself in the best possible position to achieve your goals.”. There may be less of a hype premium attached to Mobileye when it does list.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle.io , an Idaho-based startup that helps software companies sell through cloud marketplaces such as AWS’s, announced today it has raised a $100 million Series C funding round. As often, the company started with entrepreneurs scratching their own itch, my colleague Ron Miller reported last March. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new cash brings the company’s total raised to $33 million, which CEO Marc Boscher says is being put toward product development and expanding Unito’s headcount from 65 people to 70 by the end of the year. Users can map how other users, lists, custom fields and leverage the various connected tools.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

million onto its existing seed funding round, bringing total investment into the company to $6.75 The company, which describes itself as a “Zero DevOps alternative to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud,” originally raised a $2.25 One new feature the company is launching today is preview environments. Image Credits: Render.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The company previously raised a $300,000 angel investment and a $700,000 pre-seed investment for a total of $5.1 The company has around 100 customers, including Netflix and other Fortune 500 companies, along with 22 employees, 12 of whom were hired this year. Today the early-stage startup announced a $4.1 million seed round.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Embark Trucks announced its $70M Series C led by Tiger Global to continue rollout of its autonomous trucking fleet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

“We plan on eventually introducing turn-key integrations with Vercel, Netlify, GitHub, GitLab, Sentry, DataDog and many other services, making EdgeDB Cloud the key component of future application stacks.” And so EdgeDB was born.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures, and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Yahoo is the parent company to TechCrunch. GitLab Announced February 9 that it’s reducing its headcount by 7%.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Existing investors LBBW , OCCIDENT, Verve Ventures , HTGF and Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub, also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to about $15.7 The company was co-founded in 2018 by Sergej Dechand , Khaled Yakdan and their former professor at the University of Bonn, Matthew Smith.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? We’ll talk with Thomas about launching GitHub Copilot, the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool, and the future of coding in the AI age. Join the global startup community at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , September 19–21 in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Co-founders Sebastian Rindom, Oliver Juhl and Nicklas Gellner started the company a year ago, though they have been working on the software for four years with an initial customer. Combined with a pre-seed round from Seedcamp last year, the company has brought in close to $9 million in total funding.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

And, we became small investors in the company. And then finally, a few weeks later, their usage started to spike, and a real investment round came together, and we scrambled, triangulated, and spent a bunch of time with Will and Macgill, the original creators of Humble Dot.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Evidence of the former can be found in the growth posted by Databricks in recent quarters, and the latter by just how much cash Big Tech companies are willing to drop on ML-focused roles. The company is now worth around $1 billion, it said in a release. This could include a git-style service ( GitLab , GitHub , etc.),

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 31, 2023

Gitlab, Confluent, Databricks, MongoDB, Elastic, Snyk, Hashicorp, Mulesoft, have become huge companies using open source software. Company Status Market Cap or M&A Value, $B Databricks Private 38 MongoDB Public 28 Confluent Public 10 Gitlab Public 7.7 Across, just these they have generated about $100b in market cap.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Now more than ever we support founders throughout the life of their company. Brad was co-founder and CEO of Perfect Audience, an ad network funded by Y Combinator in 2011, acquired by Marin Software in 2014 and used by companies like Eventbrite, Atlassian, and New Relic to market to more than a billion people.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Cortex , a startup that helps engineering teams get improved visibility into the Rube Goldberg machine that is their microservices architecture and improve their overall development practices around it, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, which led the company’s $2.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In a recent interview, Sid Sijbrandij, the founder of Gitlab observed something about remote teams that I think is absolutely true. I’ve seen it in many of the remote/distributed companies we work with. As company scale, they need to develop infrastructure to successfully manage and coordinate large numbers of people.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The company today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A funding round led by Decibel Partners. The service currently integrates with about 40 DevOps tools like Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Gerrit and TestRails. Fike Ventures, Eniac Ventures and Fathom Capital also participated in this round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Elastic, Confluent and GitLab have proven that startups, too, can layer commercial success on top of open source projects. One company that doesn’t rule them all. Automattic may be the largest contributor in the WordPress community, but there are many other companies who lend to the success of the ecosystem. Founding privilege.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Rent the Runway , NerdWallet and other companies are setting us up for a busy second half of October. But this week will see the debut of a company worth a multiple of those other venture-backed former startups as GitLab goes public. And the developer tooling company recently turned up the valuation heat. Into the breach.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

The company’s two founders, Omri Gazitt, CEO and Gert Drapers, CTO, have decades of experience building some of the industry’s identity building blocks including SAML, OAuth 2.0 For now, the company is still working with early customers but is also expanding the private beta today. and OpenID. Oso announces $8.2M

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