January 16, 2023

Troubleshooting Tax

Every workflow in software development has a tax. The cost of those taxes — money, time, disruptions — varies across teams and tech stacks. For teams working with data, the troubleshooting tax occurs when there are no clearly defined processes or practices for wrangling their data. They often spend a significant amount of time figuring out where to store it and how to access it, all while trying to understand — and work around — the limitations of each access environment.   

Data scientists, ML engineers, and other data-users spend an unpredictable number of hours in exploratory data analysis, featurization, and experimentation to test hypotheses. In a world where both human time and machine time are extremely costly, the ability to get your data easily, quickly, and consistently from any environment — without paying the troubleshooting tax — is essential.

Introducing XetHub, XetHub

Funding

XetHub, a collaborative storage platform for data management, raised $7.5m in Seed funding.

Metaplane, a data observability platform for automatically detecting data incidents, raised $8.4m in Seed funding.

Hack the Box, a cybersecurity upskilling platform, raised $55m in Series B funding.

Chronosphere, a cloud-native observability platform, raised $115m in Series C funding.