🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-11-12
Insights from the All Things Open conference and two FinOps investments!
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Two hot takes on the two stories caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + ☁️ During All Things Open conference in Raleigh, I had a chance to speak with the LocalStack team… congrats!
Techmeme: Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
By Paul Sawers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
💸 + ☁️ Not just one but two (2!) cloud fiscal responsibility (aka FinOps) investments across ScaleOps and PointFive!
Techmeme: New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: PointFive, which helps companies track usage across multiple clouds, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, after raising a $16M seed in June 2024 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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