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Grouparoo snares $3M seed to build open source customer data integration framework

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Creating a great customer experience requires a lot of data from a variety of sources, and pulling that disparate data together has captured the attention of companies and big and small from Salesforce and Adobe to Segment and Klaviyo. For now the company is taking an open source approach to build a community around the tool.

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Salto raises $27M to let you configure your SaaS platforms with code

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Salto , a Tel Aviv-based open-source startup that allows you to configure SaaS platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot with code, is coming out of stealth today and announced that it has raised a $27 million Series A round. “So we adapted software development fundamentals and best practices to the BizOps field.

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Camunda snares $98M Series B as process automation continues to flourish

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Perhaps that explains why Camunda , a Berlin startup that makes open source process automation software, announced an €82 million Series B today. Its history actually dates back to 2008 as a business process management (BPM) consulting firm. That translates into approximately $98 million U.S. Camunda is not your typical startup.

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Best Free and Open-Source Database Software

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Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Oracle released the first fully functional one in 1979, but today there are hundreds of proprietary and open-source options available.

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EdgeDB wants to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps

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Driven by a lack of scalability with legacy solutions, they’re looking for modern systems — including cloud-based systems — that support scaling while reducing costs and accelerating development. Gartner predicts that 75% of all databases will be migrated to a cloud service by 2022 — highlighting the shift.

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How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

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Box launched in 2005 as a consumer storage product before deciding to take on content management in the enterprise in 2008. “We spent a year on development, but it was a crowded market and we struggled to carve out our own niche. Google saw enough potential to buy the company for $1.6 billion just a year after launching.

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Daily Crunch: YouTube rolls out support for dubbing videos in more than 40 languages

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: Samsung wants you to have that crystal-clear smartphone communication in places where there is no cellular network connectivity, so it developed its own satellite-based solution, Ivan writes. “Towns” hall crier : Taylor writes about Houseparty founder Ben Rubin’s new open source group chat app called Towns.

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