Anindha Parthy

Congrats to the Datadog engineering team for releasing the private beta of their on-call product today. We know first hand how difficult it is to build! I guess I need to update this blog post now? https://lnkd.in/edct4mgA

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Engineers are experiencing a seismic shift driven by market volatility, the rise of GenAI, and new approaches to quantifying engineering impact. But there's a disconnect between business leaders and the engineers building their products. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝘆 Jellyfish 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Vt3lcO 📉 71% of execs at large enterprises believe productivity decreased, while only 40% of engineers agree. 🤷‍♂️ 43% of engineers feel that leadership at their company is out of the loop regarding engineering challenges, compared to 92% of executives 😩 46% of engineers report their teams are experiencing burnout, compared to 34% of executives. This chasm between perception and reality can breed mistrust, misalignment, and missed opportunities. 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹, 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻: ✨ Foster psychological safety for open dialogue 🤝 Build trust through active listening and empathy 💡 Inspire teams by painting a compelling vision 🧭 Provide clarity amidst ambiguity and change By complementing hard metrics with soft skills, leaders can create an environment where engineers thrive and innovation flourishes. 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #Engineering

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🚀 Scaling New Heights: Cribl's Strategic Growth 🚀 In a remarkable stride within the competitive market of data infrastructure, San Francisco-based startup Cribl has recently clinched a substantial $319 million in its latest Series E funding. This momentous investment spearheaded by GV (Alphabet’s venture arm) pushes Cribl to a towering valuation of $3.5 billion. 🌟 🔍 Here's Why This Matters for Startups and Small Businesses: 🔹 Innovation and Expansion: Cribl's trajectory illuminates the potent impact of innovative solutions in data management amidst an ever-expanding corporate data environment. 🔹 Significant Growth Potential: With the company boasting an impressive portfolio including 25% of the Fortune 500, the journey reflects significant growth potential and scalability that startups can aspire to. 🔹 Strategic Partnerships: The involvement of heavyweight investors like GV and others underscores the importance of strategic partnerships in accelerating business growth. Key Takeaways: - 🌐 Adapting advanced data solutions is crucial in leveraging the voluminous data generated today. - 📈 Embrace growth by seeking impactful investments and forming strategic partnerships. - 🚀 Aim for scalability by continuously innovating and expanding your solution offerings. Stay updated, engage with current trends, and continuously seek to innovate. The path Cribl is carving out highlights the robust possibilities within tech and data management sectors. For a deeper dive into Cribl’s funding news: https://lnkd.in/gQhmrYUK #DataManagement #StartupGrowth #Innovation This post was generated by an AI. Please contact us for more information.

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Most startups choose Stripe for billing, but soon realize there’s more infrastructure needed to manage pricing & packaging. This "additional infrastructure" usually involves building & maintaining admin panels, feature flags, entitlements, and a bunch of UX for plan management (e.g. upgrade paths, usage meters, customer portals, pricing tables, etc). Developers shouldn’t have to build or maintain any of this—none of it is core to their product. At Schematic, we call this "the last mile of pricing & packaging." Central to what we're trying to do for customers is make it easy for developers to outsource this last mile, so they can focus on shipping new value and avoid getting bogged down in the latest pricing or billing initiative.

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Vishal Sachdev highlights the strategic integration of open source and proprietary tech in architecting tech stacks, developer ecosystems and resulting business models. The world class companies effectively balance value commoditization in open source and value capture in proprietary tech. This is the strategic challenge for companies operating in #blockchain and #AI. I believe those who operate at the intersection of blockchain *and* AI stand to win this strategic battle...

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🔋 #TodayinVC - All of the biggest deal announcements in venture capital - July 10th, 2024. Sourced from Litquidity's Exec Sum. 💰 Fundraising Announcements: - AI robotics startup Skild AI raised a $300M Series A at a $1.5B valuation led by Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank Investment Advisers, and Bezos Expeditions (BW) - Captions, a GenAI video creation and editing platform, raised a $60M Series C at a $500M valuation led by Index Ventures (BW) - Volley, a startup creating voice-controlled games, raised a $55M Series C led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund and Lightspeed (FN) - Athletic Brewing Co., America’s largest non-alcoholic brewery, raised $50M at an $800M valuation led by General Atlantic (WSJ) - B2B payments and remittance startup NALA raised a $40M Series A led by Acrew Capital (TC) - Canoe Intelligence, a fintech for alternative investors, raised a $36M Series C led by Goldman Sachs (BW) - Command Zero, an autonomous and user-led cyber investigation platform, raised a $21M seed round led by TECH WEEK by a16z(PRN) - AI video tech startup Phyron AI raised a $10M Series B led by Round2 Capital Partners(FN) - Scaler, an ML-based decarbonizing platform for real estate, raised a $10M Series A led by Plural (EU) - The Lasso, an online car bidding platform, raised $9.8M in funding led by Crosslink Capital and Manresa Ventures(FN) - AI-driven behavioral modeling and big data solutions startup Synerise raised an $8.5M Series B+ led by VTEX (FN) - Biostate AI, a scalable biodata foundry startup, raised $4M in funding led by Matter Venture Partners (FN) - nodaFi, a facility operations platform, raised a $3.5M seed round led by Base10 Partners (FN) - Accend (YC S23), a startup helping fintechs / banks accelerate business clients' onboarding, raised a $3.2M seed round led by Adverb Ventures (FN) Congrats to all - what #startups do you have your eyes on? 👀 Follow @Today in VC for daily #venturecapital news! 📆

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Technical founders can develop into great leaders by having a strong sense of urgency. As BCV partner Kevin Zhang explains, modern engineering teams are used to organized sprints, so technical founders should treat other parts of the business with a similar timeline of “as soon as possible.” After all, time kills all deals. Read more in our head start guide for founders.

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At Proplens AI we are building vertical AI (LLM) agents for real estate! 🏢 At times we do see skepticism around application of Gen AI to reimagine customer journeys in traditional industries like real estate, specifically in Asia. "Customer interactions in real estate will always be a high-touch human only workflow, how will AI add value here?". Proponents of these old school arguments tend to ignore the fact that AI is not all about automation, but also about enabling and empowering human professionals to deliver significantly better, faster, cheaper outcomes🎯in ways never imagined earlier. These arguments also ignore the evolving consumer behaviour in favour of transparency, information authenticity, responsiveness & personalization - areas where AI can directly amplify customer experience (CX) for real estate firms.✨ Sales and customer support professionals in RE firms spend significant amount of time in routine tasks like follow-ups, personalizing customer communication, information lookup & coordination tasks. Our AI agents make their lives simpler, enabling them achieve more! Win for businesses, employees & end consumers💪. #proptech #GenerativeAI #AIforRE

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🚀 Scale Founder Interview: Merge! 🚀 We're excited to share our interview with Shensi Ding, co-founder of Merge! For those who didn't already know, Merge is tackling the $100B+ integration market with their unified API platform - with support from leading investors like Accel-KKR, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and more. In this edition, Shensi shares invaluable insights on making the leap to full-time founder: + The founder's catch-22: needing validation to quit, but needing to quit for validation + How to validate before going full-time + Why the best founders are risk mitigators, not risk takers Shensi has already been featured in TechCrunch, This Week in Startups, or Forbes, and we're really excited to share her story below! 👉 Read the full edition here: https://lnkd.in/gzqGxUEg #Merge #B2BSaaS #UnifiedAPI #Startup #VentureCapital #SeriesB #Fundraising

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We've mapped the 250 most relevant early-stage startups within the European data ecosystem! 🚀 Our coverage spans categories like Data Collection, Storage, Integration, Security & Privacy, and Platform. Discover how these startups are leveraging AI 🧠, the most active sectors 👩‍💻👨‍💻, and key funding trends 🏦. Don't miss the simple table listing all the companies! 😀 #AI #Europeanstartups #MMCresearch #vcfunding Advika Jalan

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Insightful look into bioplatform strategy, and what it takes to raise a Series A from my partner, Omri Amirav-Drory: https://lnkd.in/dFv7GbF6

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Is it worth investing in YC companies at scale? Brian Bell from Team Ignite VC shares his thoughts on early stage investing, YC and more with Nataraj! Don't miss the full conversation 👇 #startups #venture #vc #yc #podcast

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This recent benchmark by Carta highlights how different industries are performing, with intriguing insights on valuation caps and cash raised. 💡 TestSprite’s Perspective: Autonomous testing isn’t just a trend—it’s a game-changer. Our AI-powered platform is designed to seamlessly integrate with your testing workflows, saving time and boosting efficiency. We’ve seen firsthand how this shift enables faster iteration cycles and higher software quality, which are critical in today’s fast-paced environment. To dive deeper into how autonomous testing can transform your processes, check out our latest insights on www.testsprite.com. Let’s continue the conversation and explore how AI can power your next breakthrough. #startups #funding #AI #softwaretesting #autonomoustesting

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🚀 Niken Patel and Keith Block talked to TechCrunch about Neuron7's $44m Series B funding and the massive opportunity to reinvent service. The AI landscape is like the wild west, where "Every board is asking their CEO, what’s the AI strategy?” and Neuron7 is a compelling answer, with AI in production and delivering results at Fortune 1000 customers. With 300% growth in ARR last year, global deployments, and many customers doubling their spend on Neuron7 solutions after 16-18 months, the #ServiceResolutionIntelligence category is poised for continued growith. "Neuron7 represents the next great leap forward for the service industry," according to Block.   Get in touch and build the future of service with Neuron7. 🚀   #FieldService #TechnicalSupport #AI

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Thanks Joanne Chen and Jaya Gupta from Foundation Capital for the nod! Great to be in the cohort of top notch AI companies. Observability data is untapped goldmine of information, but when the time comes (in the middle of incident), it still requires "expert" skills to find the needle in the haystack. We at Deductive AI are democratizing the expertise to everyone in the organization.

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Deploying live data in production? Socket.io is great for dev but tough on serverless. Check out these alternatives: liveblocks.io: Simple, prebuilt components. Firebase/Supabase: Stream directly from DB, but with trade-offs. partykit.io: Lots of control, chaotic for complex state. https://freestyle.sh: My project! Uses regular functions and dependencies, backend-triggered invalidations for real-time updates. Think React Query for live data. #DevOps #Serverless #LiveData #Tech Check it out docs.freestyle.dev!

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Think of Howdy as the aspirin 💊 that chases away staffing headaches. Here’s a brief case study featuring real estate tech company OJO: Problem: OJO wanted to expand its engineering team but was hesitant about integrating remote devs into their team. Solution: Howdy tailored our recruitment efforts to OJO's needs and successfully onboarded a team of talented LatAm engineers. Result: The Howdy engineers quickly dispelled OJO's initial reservations and transformed its perspective on working with contract developers. "The commitment shown by Howdy engineers completely changed our perception. OJO and Howdy engineers work seamlessly as a team, integrating and collaborating effectively." - Qingqing Ouyang, Executive Vice President of Engineering, OJO Follow the link below for a full case study with more details.

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