November 13, 2023
Standardized Developer Environments
↯ One big idea to spark your curiosity
Developers face endless friction in setting up their environments. Between config headaches, dependency issues, compute constraints, and security workflows, engineers waste 50-70% of their productive time on non-coding tasks.
For engineering leaders, these inefficiencies add up to over $80,000 per developer yearly in lost productivity. And on top of that, developers face daily frustrations getting set up to write code.
There's light at the end of the tunnel. New infrastructure-as-code solutions like Dev Containers and Devfile aim to bring sanity back with the promise of standardization of the development environment.
Leveraging SDEs for Peak Developer Velocity, Daytona
Funding
↯ Developer-friendly companies that announced new funding rounds
Daytona, an enterprise-grade GitHub Codespaces alternative for managing self-hosted, secure and standardized development environments, raised $2m in pre-Seed funding.
Integration.app, an AI-powered tool for building integrations to third-party applications, raised $3.5m in Seed funding.
Protecto, an API to protect enterprise data across the AI lifecycle (training, tuning/RAG, response, and prompt), raised $4m in Seed funding.
Pimlico, an infrastructure platform for building the next generation of smart accounts for decentralized applications, raised $4.2m in Seed funding.
Lunar, a platform that simplifies and centralizes third-party API management at scale, raised $6m in Seed funding.
Flip AI, a LLM that can understand observability data to help teams solve DevOps challenges, raised $6.5m in Seed funding.
DeepInfra, a tool that helps teams use the latest ML models with a simple API, raised $8m in Seed funding.
AppMap, an open-source runtime code analysis tool that records code execution traces, raised $10m in funding.
Kloudfuse, a unified datastore purpose-built for observability, raised $17m in Series A funding.
Ritual, a startup building an open, modular, and sovereign execution layer for AI on the blockchain, raised $25m in Series A funding.
Tabnine, an AI assistant that helps developers write code, raised $25m in Series B funding.
CAST AI, a Kubernetes cost optimization and automation platform, raised $35m in Series B funding.
Volante, a low-code financial integration platform to help legacy banks modernize their software, raised $66m in funding.
01.AI, a China-based competitor to OpenAI, raised an undisclosed amount of funding.