Frederic Lardinois

June 26, 2024

Retool expands its low-code platform for creating internal apps to support external apps, too

Retool's focus is on business apps, not the next social network.

June 26, 2024

Nubank acquires AI-for-banks startup Hyperplane

Hyperplane focused on allowing banks to train their own models to power tools across their risk, collections and marketing departments.

June 26, 2024

Creatio raises $200M at a $1.2B valuation for its no-code CRM and workflow platform

Creatio CEO Katherine Kostereva argues that what sets her company apart is that it was always architected to work at an enterprise scale.

June 25, 2024

Notion Sites takes Notion sites up a level

Popular productivity tool Notion has long allowed its users to make any of their pages public. Now, the company is expanding on this with the launch of Notion Sites, which adds several new features to its existing publishing tools. For the most part, these are pretty straightforward, but together, they do make for a more […]

June 18, 2024

SUSE wants a piece of the AI cake, too

Suse on Tuesday is announcing its AI strategy and SUSE AI solutions, a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform.

June 12, 2024

Databricks expands Mosaic AI to help enterprises build with LLMs

A year ago, Databricks acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion. Now rebranded as Mosaic AI, the platform has become integral to Databricks’ AI solutions. Today, at the company’s Data + AI Summit, it is launching a number of new features for the service. Ahead of the announcements, I spoke to Databricks co-founders CEO Ali Ghodsi and […]

June 12, 2024

Databricks launches LakeFlow to help its customers build their data pipelines

Since its launch in 2013, Databricks has relied on its ecosystem of partners, such as Fivetran, Rudderstack, and dbt, to provide tools for data preparation and loading. But now, at its annual Data + AI Summit, the company announced LakeFlow, its own data engineering solution that can handle data ingestion, transformation and orchestration and eliminates […]

June 12, 2024

Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform

When one of the co-creators of the popular open-source stream-processing framework Apache Flink launches a new startup, it’s worth paying attention. Stephan Ewen was among the founding team of the open source project back in 2010 and then later became the CTO of Data Artisans, which aimed to monetize Flink. Alibaba then acquired the company […]

June 6, 2024

Atlassian now gives startups a year of free access

Long before product-led growth became a buzzword, Atlassian offered free tiers for virtually all of its productivity and developer tools. Today, that mostly means free access for up to ten users and some other limitations. For startups, that’s a good way to get started with the company’s tools like Jira and Bitbucket, but they also […]

June 6, 2024

Tektonic AI raises $10M to build GenAI agents for automating business operations

Only a few years ago, one of the hottest topics in enterprise software was ‘robotic process automation’ (RPA). It doesn’t feel like those services, which tried to automate a lot of repetitive business processes, ever quite lived up to their promise. The rise of generative AI, however, may just be the missing key to building […]