Observe raises $115 million: Enterprises are under pressure to find more cost-effective ways to run their technologies. That's where Observe comes in. The company, which is cozy with Snowflake, "builds observability tools for machine-generated data that aims to break down data silos, [which is] useful for developers to understand how apps are working, being used, and potentially failing." Read More
Drugs are only as good as the patient data: Century Health, which raised $2 million, is applying artificial intelligence to clinical data as a way to uncover new applications for drugs. Read More
See how your apples are doing: Orchard Robotics' system is cutting out the middleman, or perhaps middle farmer. Founder and CEO Charlie Wu says Orchard's cameras "image trees from bud to bloom to harvest, and use advanced computer vision and machine learning models we've developed to collect precise data about hundreds of millions of fruit." Read More
Music producer in-training: If your child saw "Pitch Perfect" and wants to do what Anna Kendrick's character Beca did with her computer, Playtime Engineering has you covered. The Blipblox has all the bells and whistles to simplify electronic music-making. Read More
Sensing road repairs: Cyvl.ai, now with $6 million in new capital, is using sensors that it says "can create a digital twin of the infrastructure piece such as a road, and then showing where there are weaknesses and predicting when there is likely to be a repair event." With all that's gone on with transportation infrastructure lately, seems like good timing. Read More
