Frederic Lardinois

Editor, TechCrunch

Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded SiliconFilter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite). Frederic covers enterprise, cloud, developer tools, Google, Microsoft, gadgets, transportation and anything else he finds interesting. He owns just over a 50th of a bitcoin.

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At a price of $111 for the Sat75 X board, this is a fun and easy way to get into building a custom mechanical keyboard without breaking the bank.

CannonKeys launches a modern take on a classic mechanical keyboard with the Sat75 X

Definity focuses on the data transformation plane on top of a data lake or warehouse, not the data ingestion part of the pipeline.

Definity raises $4.5M as it looks to transform data application observability

For many companies, this also means that now is the time to start implementing these algorithms.

The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here

The $79 K2 has long been one of Keychron’s bestselling mechanical keyboards. As with all of the company’s K-line boards, it offers a relatively no-frills experience but provides all of…

Keychron’s K2 HE turns magnets and wood into an affordable mechanical keyboard

Google’s new features include Gemini in BigQuery and Looker to help users with data engineering and analysis.

Google Cloud expands its database portfolio with new AI capabilities

Lightrun also on Wednesday disclosed an $18 million SAFE round it raised last year, bringing Lightrun’s total funding to date to $45 million.

Lightrun launches its AI debugger to help developers fix their production code

Airtable today announced that it has acquired Dopt, a startup focused on helping other startups build product onboarding experiences for new users. Earlier this year, Dopt introduced a number of…

Airtable acquihires onboarding startup Dopt for AI talent

ClickHouse has made a name for itself as a real-time data warehouse for large enterprises. Its customer list includes Deutsche Bank, eBay, Fastly, GitLab, HubSpot, Microsoft, ServiceNow and Spotify.

Real-time database startup ClickHouse acquires PeerDB to expand its Postgres support

Vanta, a trust management platform that helps businesses automate much of their security and compliance processes, today announced that it has raised a $150 million Series C funding round led…

Vanta raises $150M Series C, now valued at $2.45B

The transaction values Cyabra at $70 million, and the company expects the merger to close by the end of the year.

Cyabra, a startup helping companies and governments detect disinformation, plans to go public via SPAC

Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We’ll talk to some of the sharpest minds and professionals in the industry — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS companies,…

Announcing the agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Tricentis, the well-funded test automation platform that helps developers find bugs in their code (now with the help of AI, of course), today announced that it has acquired SeaLights, a…

Test automation platform Tricentis acquires SeaLights

Whether it’s an online marketplace, store or social media platform, virtually every site today uses some kind of recommendation service to personalize its offerings. Shaped, which is announcing an $8…

Shaped raises $8M Series A and launches its self-serve recommendations and search service

Running a small business means doing more with less. AI agents can help, but building custom agents for specific workflows remains challenging, even with today’s low-code/no-code tools. The idea behind…

With $6M in seed funding, Enso plans to bring AI agents to SMBs

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

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

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

Nubank acquires AI-for-banks startup Hyperplane

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

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

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…

Notion Sites takes Notion sites up a level

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

SUSE wants a piece of the AI cake, too

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…

Databricks launches LakeFlow to help its customers build their data pipelines

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…

Databricks expands Mosaic AI to help enterprises build with LLMs

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…

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

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 10…

Atlassian now gives startups a year of free access

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…

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

ClickUp Knowledge Management combines a new wiki-like editor and with a new AI system that can also bring in data from Google Drive, Dropbox, Confluence, Figma and other sources.

ClickUp wants to take on Notion and Confluence with its new AI-based Knowledge Base

If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried every to-do list app and productivity system, only to find yourself giving up sooner rather than later because managing your productivity system becomes…

Hoop uses AI to automatically manage your to-do list

Spun out of Bosch, Dive wants to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by both using modern mathematical approaches and cloud computing.

Dive goes cloud-native for its computational fluid dynamics simulation service

Tobiko aims to reimagine how teams work with data by offering a dbt-compatible data transformation platform.

With $21.8M in funding, Tobiko aims to build a modern data platform

Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake Service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes.

Fivetran launches a managed data lake service

Redpanda has already integrated Benthos into its own service and has made it the core technology of its new Redpanda Connect service.

Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform