YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes • TechCrunch

YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes • ProWellTech

Atmos, a startup which has built an online marketplace that teams up homebuyers with builders and land developers to design and build custom homes, has emerged from stealth today with $12.5 million raised in Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Atmos touts that with its tech, homebuyers are…

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The best movies and shows to watch after God of War Ragnarök

After the widely acclaimed success of developer Santa Monica Studio’s return to the franchise with God of Warfans have been counting down the days to the freshly released and equally lauded Ragnarök. Now with the game out, countless are surely continuing this exciting soft-rebooted adventure filled with cathartic action and the thoughtful character development of…

Yahaha raises $40M more for its user-generated, low-code immersive gaming platform • TechCrunch

Yahaha raises $40M more for its user-generated, low-code immersive gaming platform • ProWellTech

Yahaha, a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. Now, with 100,000 creators and hundreds of thousands of players, it’s raised a further $40 million…

Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end • TechCrunch

Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end • ProWellTech

Since its launch in 2017, Retool has made a name for itself by offering developers an easier way to build line-of-business apps for their internal users. Unlike the many low-code/no-code tools on the market today, Retool’s focus remains squarely on developers, despite its helpful drag-and-drop interface. Now, about half a year after announcing its $45…

MotherDuck secures investment from Andreessen Horowitz to commercialize DuckDB • TechCrunch

MotherDuck secures investment from Andreessen Horowitz to commercialize DuckDB • ProWellTech

Jordan Tigani — a founding engineer at Google BigQuery, Google’s fully managed data analysis platform — was working as the chief product officer at SingleStore when he noticed that the vast majority of database workloads were small (less than 10GB in size) and low-bandwidth. While vendors were building for massive data sets, the term “big…

Impacked packs up $2.5M to give the packaging industry a greener tint • TechCrunch

Impacked packs up $2.5M to give the packaging industry a greener tint • ProWellTech

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. Impacked is a B2B company that’s bringing green tech to the forefront for everything from jars, tubes and pouches to bottles. The company raised a $2.5 million seed funding round led by TenOneTen Ventures, taking its total funding raised to $3.3 million….