PC shipments decline slows in Q3 2023, but Apple plunges over 23%

October 10, 2023
It hasn’t been a great time in recent quarters for PC companies, but with IDC, Gartner and Canalys all reporting data for Q3 2023, it shows an improving landscape. While shipments still declined between 7% and 9%, depending on whose data you looked at, the decline was slowing. But perhaps the biggest surprise in these […]

23andMe resets user passwords after genetic data posted online

October 10, 2023
Days after user personal surfaced online, the genetic testing company 23andMe said it’s requiring all users to reset their passwords “out of caution.” On Friday, 23andMe confirmed that hackers had obtained some users’ data, but stopped short of calling the incident a data breach. The company said that the hackers had accessed “certain accounts” of […]

Solar-powered everything with Giovanni Fili of Exeger

October 10, 2023
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Giovanni Fili, the founder and CEO of Exeger, a startup that creates flexible solar cells that can create electric energy off of any light condition. Fili talked about what it has been like devoting the […]

Harbour secures $15M to streamline and automate contract drafting

October 10, 2023
Contract management startup Harbour today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round that had participation from Getty Images co-founder Jonathan Klein, Scribble Ventures and The Palmer Company. Bringing Harbour’s total raised to $20 million, the new funds will be put toward growing the startup’s team of 12 and scaling its […]

Gutsy launches with huge $51M seed to bring process mining to security

October 10, 2023
Twistlock was founded in 2015 with the idea of securing the nascent cloud native computing environment, a notion you could argue was well ahead of its time. When the company was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2019 for $410 million, it turned out that wasn’t the end of the story. The founding group got […]

TabbyML, an open source challenger to GitHub Copilot, raises $3.2 million

October 10, 2023
The race to create AI assistants that help humans write computer code is heating up. TabbyML, built by two ex-Googlers, has secured $3.2 million in seed funding to work on its open source code generator. In contrast to GitHub’s Copilot, a self-hosted coding assistant like TabbyML has the advantage of being highly customizable, suggested the […]

Data observability startup Acceldata raises $10M more

October 10, 2023
Data observability startup Acceldata today announced that it raised $10 million in an extension to its Series C round, bringing its total raised to over $100 million. New investor Prosperty7 Ventures was the sole contributor to the tranche, according to Acceldata co-founder and CEO Rohit Choudhary, which will be put toward go-to-market efforts, mergers and […]