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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Oracle , a decade-long war over the future of software, neared its end in the Supreme Court this week as a battle of metaphors. Oracle covers a complex question : what elements of computer code can be copyrighted, and if that code is covered by copyright, when it’s still legal to use pieces of it under fair use. Alex Castro.

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Oracle Copyright API Law

Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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Open Source Database Open Raise

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Fast, Low-Cost Inference Offers Key to Profitable AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

For Microsoft, Oracle, Perplexity, Snap and hundreds of other leading companies, using the NVIDIA AI inference platform a full stack comprising world-class silicon, systems and software is the key to delivering high-throughput and low-latency inference and enabling great user experiences while lowering cost. With over 1.5

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Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The latest investment was led by Altimeter Capital with participation from new investors Greenoaks and Lone Pine along with existing investors Benchmark, Bond, FirstMark, GV, Index Ventures and Tiger Global. The round doubled the company’s previous valuation and increased the amount raised to $355 million.

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Open Source Oracle Database Free

This is the beginning of the unbundled database era

TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Ethan Batraski is a partner at Venrock and focuses on data infrastructure, open source and developer tools. Today, thanks to the cloud, microservices, distributed applications, global scale, real-time data and deep learning, new database architectures have emerged to solve for new performance requirements. Ethan Batraski.

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Database Oracle Data Analytics

ForgeRock files for IPO as identity and access management business grows

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

There certainly is a whole lot of room to grow, as the company estimates that the total global addressable market for identity services to be worth $71 billion. . ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go back even further to an open-source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005.

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The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool

NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Still, it’s one that is supported by Open Source, adopted by large nonprofit-serving businesses such as Oracle/NetSuite and Unit4, and creating an opening (and teaching tool) for even new-to-nonprofit technology solutions to understand basic service needs for nonprofits as supported by data.

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Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Swanson and Dehghanpisheh previously worked together at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on the AI and machine learning side of the business; Swanson was the worldwide leader at AWS’s AI customer solutions team and Dehghanpisheh was the global leader for machine learning solution architects.

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Project Oracle Learning Gartner

Data.World raises $50M to help enterprises organize and track their data

TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

He points to the platform’s recently launched Kos, an open source metadata model and integration toolkit that’s designed to make it easier to model data consistently. million, will be put toward “global expansion, talent acquisition and product innovation.” ” Growth into the future.

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Data Organization Track Raise

What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data. She also likes the big data for good work coming out of the UN Global Pulse initiative. Image: IBM.

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Data Organization Disaster Map

Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The Summit welcomed some of the most impressive individuals and organizations in the nonprofit sector, including Boys & Girls Clubs of America , Mary’s Meals, World Central Kitchen, the Ford Foundation, Greenpeace, Save the Children, and more to speak at the event’s global mainstage, in breakout sessions, and on thought leadership panels. .

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The CockroachDB EC-1

TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

MySQL, which remains one of the most popular database engines in the world, was first released in the mid-1990s, and Oracle Database, launched more than four decades ago, is still widely used in high-performance corporate environments. Database technology can change the world, but the world in these parts changes very, very slowly.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options

TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach Labs” was the final candidate. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TikTok's ban deadline is coming. What happens next?

Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

Oracle, which almost bought TikTok in 2020 and was a key part of TikToks earlier negotiations to address national security concerns, is also in the running. Under this arrangement, Oracle could also end up overseeing TikToks US data while ByteDance hangs onto its algorithm, as the Financial Times reported in March.

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

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Fast, Low-Cost Inference Offers Key to Profitable AI

Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation

This is the beginning of the unbundled database era

ForgeRock files for IPO as identity and access management business grows

The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool

Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack

Data.World raises $50M to help enterprises organize and track their data

What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

The CockroachDB EC-1

Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options

TikTok's ban deadline is coming. What happens next?

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