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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

“[I] previously cofounded Ooyala and served as their CTO for eight years … From that experience, it was clear that every company was rapidly becoming a data company, and that there was a tremendous shortage of talent available to assist companies on their journey,” Knapp told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

But while my cofounder Charity Majors and I started this company to build a great product and build a great software business (in turn enabling our customers to do so as well), we’ve always shared a third, underlying motivation: to build a company our people are proud to be a part of.