Hot off the heels of its $250M Series C in October 2021 Rippling has announced its latest $250M Series D round which leaves the Employee Management Platform achieving a valuation of over $11.2B. Rippling was founded by Parker Conrad in 2016 entering YCombinator’s Winter ’17 batch where they caught the eye of the Zillionize team. Serial founder Parker has plenty of experience founding and leading world-class startups with his previous […]

Teleport enables the ability to access SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases remotely from anywhere with identity-based access like SSO (Single Sign-On). Zillionize invested in Teleport as part of the YCombinator S15 batch and is now listed as one of YCombinators top companies. Currently at position 151 at the time of writing. This Series C sees the company valued at $1.1B. CEO Ev Kontsevoy and co-founders Taylor Wakefield […]

Pyka, a battery-powered autonomous airplane maker targeting the aircraft spraying business market, added to our portfolio in 2017 as part of the YC S17 batch has just raised a $37m series A round that will enable them to further their mission to electrify and automate agricultural operations on farms and beyond. As the team mission statement says “We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and […]

Sarus software lets data scientists and analysts work on sensitive data without accessing the data directly. They can carry on their work as they always have, from standard database analysis to AI models with complex machine learning training, without risking a leak of any sensitive piece of information. Traditionally, companies have relied upon data masking, sometimes called de-identification, to protect data privacy. The basic idea is to remove all personally […]

Reality Defender is a user-friendly, no-code platform allowing companies to scan for fake content within media (audio, video and images). Reality Defender’s API and web app provide real-time scanning, deepfake scoring and PDF report cards, meaning that previously unscanned media can now be reviewed, in real-time with a new level of accuracy and accessibility. The project began as an incubation initiative between Microsoft, Intel and the AI Foundation. Their shared […]

The television and film industry has evolved dramatically in recent years. Amongst many of the developments, streaming is now mainstream. This has lead to a change in the type and frequency of content being engrossed by viewers worldwide along with a change in the devices which are used to do that. On-demand access has also improved the ability to serve niche audiences. Working at a number of major films and […]