Exciting times for data infrastructure companies

Fundraises and new releases

Author

Dinuraj Sugumaran
September 21, 2023

Welcome to this week's Five Data Points.

I'm Dinuraj, and I want to share with you five interesting articles I've read this week that I believe will be valuable to you.

1 - Databricks raises $500M more

Databricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B despite late-stage gloom

2 - Serverless DuckDb generally available

MotherDuck is Open for All With $100M in the Nest

3 - Iceberg table format company Tabular raises funding

Tabular's Iceberg vision backed by VC funding

4 - Apache Pinot 1.0 release!

Announcing Apache Pinot 1.0™

5 - A visual data analysis of green equality

Assessing Urban Green Equality Using Vienna’s Open Data Portal

I hope these articles enriched your thinking with fresh perspectives and deeper insight. Let me know if any of the articles especially resonate with you, or you have topics that you want explored further.

If you found any value in this at all, do pass it along to your friends and colleagues who you think might benefit from it.

Thanks for joining me on this journey of expanding our knowledge about data. I'll see you again next week with more to learn.

Dinuraj Sugumaran