Migrating to the cloud is a transformative step for any organization. It offers scalability, flexibility, and cost savings, but it also...

<p>Edera, a startup looking to simplify and improve how Kubernetes containers and AI workloads are secured by offering a new hypervisor, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Kubernetes is now 10 years old, but Edera founders Ariadne Conill (distinguished engineer), Emily Long [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, valuing Mercor at $2 billion — eight times its previous valuation, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. Existing investors Benchmark and General Catalyst, as [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Confluent&#8217;s approach of growing from open source to commercial product has worked out well — the company defied conventional wisdom and still ended up thriving.</p>

<p>The company closed last year with $2 billion in GMV and is on target to do close to $6 billion this year. To maintain its status as a global leader, that meant going after some new capital.</p>

<p>Crossbeam founder and CEO Bob Moore founded his startup to help companies building sales partnerships understand their overlapping accounts, using a process called account mapping. He knew that eventually the company would benefit from a network effect as customers attracted other partners to the network. As that vision has come to fruition, it has caught [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While software development frameworks make developing software faster and easier than ever, pre-deployment testing gets more and more complex by the day. Over the past decade, Testlio has grown exponentially and positioned itself as an &#8220;Elance for Software Testing.&#8221; In addition to its own team of 150 or so, the company now commands an army [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After being instrumental in launching the Kubernetes open source project, Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda left Google to launch Heptio in 2016. They then sold the company to VMware in 2018. Both left VMware in 2022 and McLuckie went on to found a stealth startup after a short stint as an entrepreneur in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Okteto, a startup that makes it easier for developers to quickly spin up Kubernetes-based development environments in order to speed up their development process, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with existing investors Haystack, Root Ventures and Uncorrelated Ventures also [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week confirmed that even when current events cloud the outlook, some startups still manage to raise significant amounts of funding, with those tied to security and [&hellip;]</p>

Accel has maintained its India fund size at $650 million for its eighth vehicle, even as other venture firms in the region are racing to raise increasingly larger pools of capital. The firm had ample opportunity to raise multi-billion dollars,said Shekhar Kirani, partner at Accel, in an interview with

<p>Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $12 million in a funding round &#8212; a tranche smaller than Opsera&#8217;s previous raise &#8212; led by Taiwania Capital with participation from Clear Ventures, Felicis Ventures and others. Bringing the company&#8217;s total raised to $31.3 million, the new cash will be put [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Technical debt is often the unsung villain of the enterprise, crippling companies seeking to modernize as they realize just how much &#8220;legacy&#8221; lives in their stack. And as with most kinds of debt, there is usually interest to pay, too. This is something that fledgling U.K. startup AppFactor is setting out to solve, with a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>DevOps has changed the game for how developers build, deploy, update and monitor applications across their network. Now, an eponymous startup called DataOps.live &#8212; which has built a DataOps platform based on the learnings of DevOps, but targeted at the world of data science &#8212; is announcing a round of funding on the heels of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Generative AI isn&#8217;t just about creative endeavors and parlor tricks.</p>

<p>In a typical large organization, DevOps tasks have become so complex, and involve navigating so many tools, it has become difficult to understand the current state of affairs, and to add resources when needed. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where developers often need to submit a ticket, even for a routine operation, which is adding [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Metrist, a startup that helps IT teams stay on top of outages among the many cloud services they use to run their own applications, today announced that it has raised a $5.5 million seed round from the likes of Heavybit, Morado Ventures and PagerDuty co-founder Alex Solomon and StatusPage co-founders Scott and Steve Klein. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As tools like Salesforce grow in usage, a crop of new startups is emerging to make integrating the tools into existing processes easier.</p>

<p>A cloud kitchen &#8212; also known as a ghost kitchen or a shared kitchen — offers restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs a commercial kitchen space at a reduced cost for food delivery and takeout. This trend has been circling around the restaurant industry. More food entrepreneurs are turning to cloud kitchens to reduce their operation [&hellip;]</p>