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Trump fires away on Twitter after London attack
The US president tweeted: 'We must stop being politically correct.'
By	Nolan D. McCaskill and Rebecca Morin
6/4/17, 1:46 AM CET
President Donald Trump on Sunday called for an end to political correctness, suggesting that terrorism "will only get worse" if the U.S. doesn't "get smart" and reinstate his administration's travel ban.
"We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don't get smart it will only get worse," the president warned in a tweet Sunday morning.
Trump's initial response to Saturday's terror attack in London — which claimed seven lives, left dozens more hospitalized and ended with police shooting dead three attackers — urged the courts to reinstate the travel ban.
"We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!" the president wrote Saturday night, minutes before assuring London and the United Kingdom that the U.S. will do whatever it can to assist in wake of the attack.
On Sunday, though, the president took a different tack, stoking fears from his personal Twitter account while also criticizing London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, and noting "we are not having a gun debate right now … because they used knives and a truck!"
Authorities said a white van mounted the pavement on the London Bridge on Saturday night, hitting a number of pedestrians. The van later drove to Borough Market, a venue with many bars and restaurants on the south side of the river Thames and very close to the London Bridge. The attackers jumped out of the van and stabbed a number of people but were shot dead by police within eight minutes of the first emergency call.
Khan, London's first Muslim mayor, told BBC that no words can describe the grief and anger London feels.
"I'm appalled and furious that these cowardly terrorists would deliberately target innocent Londoners and bystanders enjoying their Saturday night. There can be no justification for the acts of these terrorists, and I'm quite clear that we will never let them win, nor will we allow them to cower our city of Londoners," Khan said.
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He added that Londoners will see an increased police presence over the next few days but cautioned that there's no reason to be alarmed by that.
Trump, who drew criticism for promoting a Drudge Report tweet that NBC's "Nightly News" refused to share because "the info is unconfirmed," mischaracterized Khan's remark Sunday.
"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!'" Trump said. His social media director, Dan Scavino, urged Khan to "WAKE UP!!!!"
Khan had previously criticized Trump during the U.S. presidential campaign last May, tweeting that his "ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe" and "risks alienating mainstream Muslims."
Candidate Trump proposed a "Muslim ban," but his administration has maintained that its executive order is not a ban on Muslims entering the country but rather a national security directive to keep Americans safe.
Earlier this week, Trump labeled a shooting incident at a casino in Manila, Philippines, as a terrorist attack. But authorities said the incident was likely a robbery attempt.
Trump has often tweeted following terrorist attacks. In April, the president wrote that a shooting on Paris' Champs Élysées "will have a big effect on presidential election." Authorities said the attack was "likely terrorist-related." And following an attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, Trump called the attacker an "evil loser" during remarks while he was overseas in Bethlehem.
Trump has asked the Supreme Court to revive his complex and controversial travel ban executive order, which has been repeatedly blocked by lower courts — even after the administration introduced a revised order in March.
The Justice Department on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily lift injunctions barring officials from carrying out Trump's directive to suspend visa issuance to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries and halt the flow of refugees to the U.S. from across the globe. The high court could review the legality of the travel ban this fall.
Republicans in Congress, however, are skeptical about the fate of the ban. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) told "Face the Nation" on CBS that she disagrees with the president's view that the travel ban needs to be enacted now.
"I think that the travel ban is too broad, and that is why it has been rejected by the courts," she said. "The president is right, however, that we need to do a better job of vetting individuals who are coming from war-torn countries into our nation, but I do believe that the very broad ban that he has proposed is not the right way to go."
Asked on "Fox News Sunday" whether the Supreme Court would reinstate Trump's travel ban, Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) couldn't say.
"I don't know what the court will decide," he said.
Trump spoke with British Prime Minister Theresa May by phone on Saturday, according to a readout from the White House, which said the president "offered his condolences" and "praised the heroic response of police and other first responders."
May said Saturday that the bridge incident was being treated as a "potential act of terrorism," which she confirmed on Sunday.
"We believe we are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face as terrorism breeds terrorism, and perpetrators are inspired to attack not only on the basis of carefully-constructed plots after years of planning and training — and not even as lone attackers radicalized online — but by copying one another and often using the crudest of means of attack," May said. "We cannot and must not pretend that things can continue as they are."
The Anne Frank Center, a nonprofit that focuses on civil and human rights activism, condemned Trump's first response Saturday, tweeting "SHAME ON YOU … for dedicating your first Tweet after tonight's #LondonBridge attack to your immoral #MuslimBan."
"Terrorism includes violence that destroys people, as well as prejudice that destroys people's souls. The response cannot be a #MuslimBan," the center said Sunday.
James Randerson contributed to this report.
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Turkey to ramp up EastMed drilling in response to EU sanctions
EU foreign ministers unanimously approved an initial series of measures against Turkey over Ankara's exploration efforts off the coast of Cyprus on Monday.


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Vietnam's field hospital serves peacekeeping mission in South Sudan
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Vietnam will, for the first time, send military doctors to participate in the UN's peacekeeping force. The doctors will travel to South Sudan to take over a field hospital of the United Kingdoms whose personnel are about to withdraw. After receiving intensive training over the past nearly four years, the doctors are ready to carry out its international humanitarian mission. A patient with multiple serious injures is transferred to the field hospital. Upon arrival, he is immediately diagnosed with suspended breathing, cardiac arrest, and in need of intensive care. This is a situation that the hospital will frequently encounter when they deploy to South Sudan to join the UN's peacekeeping forces. Founded in December 2014, the Field Hospital (level 2, no.1) is the first individual unit from Vietnam which will directly participate in UN peacekeeping forces. Therefore, the selection of eligible employees and training work has been well prepared by the Ministry of National Defence over the past almost four years. The opening of the field hospital saw staff selected from the 175 Military Hospital, the 7A Military Hospital, the 7B Military Hospital, and the Army Corps No.4 Hospital. Severe weather conditions in Africa are not only the only strenuous factor, there are also dangers that may arise from unexpected accidents and attacks from antagonistic forces, extremist troops, or racial and religious conflicts, among others. Besides, other new tasks – such as professional training; foreign language; lessons on communication, psychology, and cultural behaviour in a new environment with higher requirements… [Read full story]
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It's almost Halloween - the days are slipping past, but they too can be a lot of fun - all leading up to a great family/friend time for all. This year, try placing your scarecrow at a table (an old one from your garage or shed), or make one from two saw horses and a flat board. Instead of the 'ol straw hat, place a chef's hat on his/her head and make sure he/she has an apron. Then load on the bountiful Fall harvest (pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, apples, etc.). Heads will turn to check out the new chef in town.
Place a handful of your choice of treats in an ice cream cone, or waffle cone. You can even make colorful cones from heavy paper, rolled in a cone shape, and taped. Place in your scariest bowl and let the fun begin.
Spray shaving cream into plastic containers and add just a quick drop of food coloring in each one in the colors of Halloween - yellow, orange, monster green, etc.
The little ones can then make tomorrow's blueprints for even more fun on the tub, or enclosure, and no harm is done - clean-up is fast and easy.
And speaking of kids - begin now to make a memory placemat for enjoyment years to come - not only for the wee ones but for all the adults as well.
Take pictures while raking leaves, making costumes, or any Fall or Halloween fun- time. and include the adults and any friends or neighbors that just happen to come by. Continue your collection of pictures until Halloween day and make your child or friend, or husband, wife, or whoever the centerpiece in the mat. Add all the other pictures around, with the date and year on the very bottom.
Halloween and every day leading up to this holiday - ENJOY!


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Q: How to close a TabItem in MVVM Light In my view i'm adding dynamically custom TabItems (TextseiteTabItem). With the property DataContext i gave each TabItem a Model to work with (fill in values). Now i added a close-command to the custom TabItems but it wont work. I cant manage to send the close-command to the viewmodel. Above is my attempt..
My custom TabItem:
<sdk:TabItem x:Class="PortfolioCreator.TextseiteTabItem"
           xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
           xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
           xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
           xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
           mc:Ignorable="d"
           xmlns:navigation="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Navigation"
           xmlns:sdk="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/sdk"
           xmlns:toolkit="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/toolkit">

    <sdk:TabItem.Header>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <sdk:Label Content="{Binding Seitennummer, StringFormat='Seite {0}', Mode=TwoWay}"/>
            <Button Content="X"
                    Command="{Binding CloseTabCommand, Mode=TwoWay}"
                    DataContext="{Binding ElementName=TemplateTabControl}"
                    CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedItem, ElementName=TemplateTabControl}" />
        </StackPanel>
    </sdk:TabItem.Header>

    <sdk:TabItem.Content>
        <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
            ...
        </Grid>
    </sdk:TabItem.Content>
</sdk:TabItem>

In my View:
...
<sdk:TabControl toolkit:DockPanel.Dock="Bottom" ItemsSource="{Binding Tabs}" x:Name="TemplateTabControl"/>
...

In my ViewModel:
public class PortfolioViewModel : ViewModelBase
{
    public ObservableCollection<TabItem> Tabs { get; set; }

    public RelayCommand<TabItem> CloseTabCommand
    {
        get;
        private set;
    }

    public PortfolioViewModel()
    {
        CloseTabCommand = new RelayCommand<TabItem>(tab =>
        {
            //never reached
        },
        tab =>
        {
            //never reached
        });

        Tabs = new ObservableCollection<TabItem>();

        AddTextseite();
        AddTextseite();
    }

    void AddTextseite()
    {
        TabItem item = new TextseiteTabItem();
        item.DataContext = new TextSeiteModel();

        Tabs.Add(item);
    }

}

A: You are attempting to use MVVM but the strange thing I see is collection of ui elements (Tabs) in your view model. The correct way would be to create ViewModel that describes Tab item and move the command there. Then it will bind. To remove tab from Tabs you should expose event in your Tab view model and attach to it form PortfolioViewModel.
Of course my change will cause that your TextseiteTabItem will not show in TablControl. But it can be easily fixed with TabControl.ItemTemplate and TabControl.ContentTemplate.

A: First, your CloseTabCommand does nothing in your current code snippet: //never reached. The execute handler should read something like tab.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed or myTabControl.Items.Remove(myTabItem).
Second, as @Rafal pointed out, using UI elements in the ViewModel is not the correct way to implement MVVM. If you want closable tab items, the correct way would be to derive a generic CloseableTabItem control or write a ClosableTabItemBehavior on the UI layer with a settable ICommand CloseCommand that can be bound to the corresponding ICommand instance on the ViewModel. Admittedly this approach might be too elaborate for your project though.

A: here you find a demo application with closeable tabs for wpf, maybe it works for your silverlight version also.

A: This is my workaround for this problem. I admit it is not a good solution and breaks the mvvm pattern but as @herzmeister says other approaches are too elaborate for my project right now. (But it won't be the final solution ;-) )
TabItemViewModel:
public delegate void CloseTabItemHandler();

public class TextseiteTabItemViewModel : ViewModelBase
{
    public event CloseTabItemHandler CloseTabItem;
    public RelayCommand CloseTabCommand {get; set;}

    public TextseiteTabItemViewModel()
    {
        CloseTabCommand = new RelayCommand(() =>
        {
            if (CloseTabItem == null) return;
            CloseTabItem();
        });
    }
}

TabItemView:
<sdk:TabItem x:Class="PortfolioCreator.TextseiteTabItemView"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        mc:Ignorable="d"
        xmlns:navigation="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Navigation"
        xmlns:sdk="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/sdk"
        xmlns:toolkit="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/toolkit">

    <sdk:TabItem.Header>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <Button Content="X" Command="{Binding CloseTabCommand, Mode=TwoWay}" />
        </StackPanel>
    </sdk:TabItem.Header>

    <sdk:TabItem.Content>
        <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
            ...
        </Grid>
    </sdk:TabItem.Content>
</sdk:TabItem>

Parent ViewModel:
public class PortfolioViewModel : ViewModelBase
{
    public ObservableCollection<TabItem> Tabs { get; set; }

    public PortfolioViewModel()
    {
        Tabs = new ObservableCollection<TabItem>();

        AddTextseite();
        AddTextseite();
    }

    void AddTextseite()
    {
        var viewmodel = new TextseiteTabItemViewModel();

        TabItem item = new TextseiteTabItemView();
        item.DataContext = viewmodel;

        viewmodel.CloseTabItem += new CloseTabItemHandler(() =>
        {
            Tabs.Remove(item);
        });

        Tabs.Add(item);
    }
}

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Bringing more stability
Bringing more stability to crystal oscillators. By Graham Pitcher.
Temperature is an important factor in determining the stability of crystal oscillators. By compensating for the effects of temperature on the oscillation frequency of the crystal, a temperature compensated crystal oscillator (tcxo) can exhibit up to 50 times better stability over its operating temperature range than a comparable uncompensated oscillator.
For example, where an uncompensated device might offer ±20 ppm stability over the temperature range from –40 to 85°C, a tcxo of otherwise equivalent specifications might be stable to within ±0.4 ppm over the same temperature range.
Adding temperature compensation to an oscillator requires considerable extra circuitry, which leads to a bulkier device with higher power consumption. However, the trend in communication systems design, particularly for mobile equipment, is toward ever smaller component size and power requirement, without sacrificing performance of course.
To reconcile these apparently contradictory requirements, C-MAC MicroTechnology has developed Pluto, an analogue temperature compensation chip for high stability tcxos.
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Langdon-Davies, John
Entry updated 3 April 2020. Tagged: Author.
(1897-1971) South African-born poet and author, mostly in the UK from the age of six, a pacifist in World War One, and much involved in Spain and its conflicts during the interWar years; he is of some sf interest for A Short History of the Future (1936), which – like J D Bernal's The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1929 chap) – is essentially an exercise in Futures Studies avant la lettre, predicting a Utopian future by the end of the twentieth century. In the 1960s, he became very well known as the creator of the Jackdaw series of picture-book history aids for children. [JC]
John Langdon-Davies
born Eschowe, Zululand, South Africa: 18 March 1897
died 5 December 1971
A Short History of the Future (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1936) [hb/]
The Unknown, Is It Nearer? (New York: Signet/New American Library, 1956) with Eric J Dingwall [nonfiction: pb/Richard Powers]


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Live updates: Bajaj Auto announcement
Aditya Chatterjee Updated: 2019-01-21 14:19:10 IST
Bajaj Auto will be announcing an important initiative that is believed to be mark an important milestone for the Pune based two- and three-wheeler manufacturer. The event is being addressed by Rakesh Sharma, Executive Director in the presence of Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director and Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog. More details on the announcement on our social channels and below
Jan 21, 02:47 PM (IST)
Some of the visuals that will be used by #BajajAuto to communicate its new identity. Pan-India showrooms will be updated soon with the new identity, colours and signages
That's the company's new brand identity. Speaks about the company's global dreams that being created in India
"There's no other Indian automobile company that endorses #MakeInIndia with such passion like #BajajAuto" Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog shares his view on #BajajAuto's new brand identity.
"The World's favourite Indian" is the new brand identity of Bajaj Auto.
#BajajAuto sells its products in 70 countries which makes it the only Indian brand to do so. Largest exporter of two-wheelers in the world.
"Bajaj will launch an electric two-wheeler soon" - Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director, #BajajAuto
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In 1983, the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB) established a Scholarship Grants program to focus on the profession of architecture with a generous donation from major founder and Santa Barbara Architect, Pierre Claeyssens. Since that time new funders have joined to increase the funding and yearly grants. To date, over $1,300,000 has been given to students studying in the fields of Architecture in Santa Barbara County.
The annual awards generally exceed $50,000 and distributed to 15-20 students. AFSB partners with the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, a local non – profit, to maintain the funds and do the administrative work to select the recipients based upon AFSB's directive criteria.
An annual Scholarship Reception and Awards Ceremony is held each year at an inspired location to celebrate and honor the students who have received awards that year.
AFSB encourages and embraces the scholarship recipients to be involved and serve their communities as they pursue their careers and is delighted when some have returned to Santa Barbara and joined AFSB to be part of the team as program volunteers and Directors on our Board.
AFSB Scholarship Fund – This general fund is for exceptional students studying Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architectural History, Architectural Preservation, or Urban Planning.
Lutah Maria Riggs Fund – This fund honors Santa Barbara's own pioneer Architect who was the first woman to be named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects – the highest honor bestowed upon AIA members and who designed some of Santa Barbara's most beloved and prominent structures. This fund goes to a student showing exceptional scholastics in their field of study.
Santa Barbara Beautiful Fund – Santa Barbara Beautiful is a non- profit and longtime partner of the Architectural Foundation involved with the promotion and appreciation of the importance of beauty in architecture and landscape architecture. This fund focuses on a student showing commitment in their field of study and excellence in their internship or work experience.
The Sustainability Project Fund – The Sustainability Project of Santa Barbara for years highlighted, educated, and promoted the importance of Sustainability in our world and especially in the built environment. This fund is designated for the student who demonstrates interest and understanding of the importance of design that addresses sustainability for a healthy environment.
Cassandra Ensberg & Tom Jacobs Art in Architecture Fund – Cassandra Ensberg is the second woman architect to become a fellow of the American Institute of Architects from the AIA Santa Barbara Chapter. She and her architect partner and husband Tom Jacobs have created this Art in Architecture fund to recognize a student who shows ability and understanding of the importance and essential connection between Art and Architecture.
Anyone interested in contributing to the AFSB Scholarship Funds or creating a new scholarship should contact AFSB at 805-965-6307. For those wanting to apply for a scholarship, you can find more information on the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara website.
Many scholarship recipients have expressed their gratitude for our support of their education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning.


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('bus', '0013_auto_20170331_2339'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.DeleteModel(
            name='BusDestinationArea',
        ),
        migrations.DeleteModel(
            name='BusPickArea',
        ),
    ]

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Józef Urbanek (ur. 1885) – działacz niepodległościowy, 12 marca 1931 odznaczony Krzyżem Niepodległości z Mieczami
 Józef Urbanek (1886-1937) – podpułkownik dyplomowany piechoty Wojska Polskiego, kawaler Virtuti Militari
 Józef Urbanek (1894–1938) – żołnierz 3 Pułku Piechoty Legionów Polskich, 13 września 1933 odznaczony Krzyżem Niepodległości
 Józef Urbanek (1894–1954) – starszy sierżant Wojska Polskiego, podoficer 59 Pułku Piechoty Wielkopolskiej, 20 lipca 1932 odznaczony Medalem Niepodległości
 Józef Urbanek (1909-1944) – podporucznik piechoty rezerwy Wojska Polskiego

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I'm making the final edits.
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Medical supply marketplace startup bttn. sews up additional $5M seed
Coming off a $1.5 million seed round in June, bttn. announced Thursday that it secured another $5 million extension, led by FUSE, to the round to give it a $26.5 million post-money valuation.
The Seattle-based company was founded in March 2021 by JT Garwood and Jack Miller after seeing the challenges medical organizations had during the global pandemic to not only find supplies, but also get fair prices for them.
"We went into this building on the pain points customers had dealing with a system that is so archaic and outdated — most were still faxing in order forms and keeping closets full of supplies, but not knowing what was there," Garwood, CEO, told TechCrunch.
Bttn. is going after the U.S. wholesale medical supply market, which is predicted to be valued at $243.3 billion by the end of 2021, according to IBISWorld. The company created a business-to-business e-commerce platform with a variety of high-quality medical supplies, saving customers an average of between 20% and 40%, while providing a better ordering and shipping experience, Garwood said.
It now boasts more than 300 customers, including individual practices and surgical centers, and multiple government contracts. It is also currently the preferred supplier for over 17 healthcare associations across the country, Garwood said. In addition to expanding into dental supplies, bttn. is also attracting customers like senior living facilities and home and hospice care.
Garwood intends to use the funds to expand bttn.'s technology, sales and operations teams, and increase its partnerships. The company is also adding new features like a portal to track shipments more easily, better order automation and improve the ability to control when supplies will get to them.
Bttn. is also analyzing more of the data coming in from its marketplace to recognize where the trends are coming from, including hospitalization rates, to share with customers. For example, if hospitals are overcrowded, supply shortages will follow, Garwood said.
"The medical supply industry was built on inequity, and we have a sense of duty to build a product that enables a better future for our customers," he added. "We can proactively let customers know that spikes are expected, provide them with correct information and give that power back to the consumers and healthcare providers in ways they never had before."
Whereas bttn.'s first seed round was "about pouring gas on the fire," partnering with FUSE this time around was an easy decision for Garwood, who said the firm is bringing new assets to the table.
Brendan Wales, general partner at FUSE, said via email that his firm backs promising entrepreneurs building businesses in the Pacific Northwest and discovered bttn. before they announced any funding.
He said there is massive consumerization of healthcare, most evident on the patient side for years, but now becoming so on the provider side. Medical office employees are looking for the same type of customer experience they get from online businesses they frequently shop at, and bttn. "has a relentless drive to provide the same type of experiences and interactions to health providers."
"We fell in love with the idea of providing a transparent and delightful customer experience to health providers, something that has been sorely lacking," Wales added. "That, tied in with a young and ambitious team, made it so that our entire partnership worked tirelessly to partner with them."
How tech can build more resilient supply chains
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Edge Delta raises $15M Series A to take on Splunk
Seattle-based Edge Delta, a startup that is building a modern distributed monitoring stack that is competing directly with industry heavyweights like Splunk, New Relic and Datadog, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures and Tim Tully, the former CTO of Splunk. Previous investors MaC Venture Capital and Amity Ventures also participated in this round, which brings the company's total funding to date to $18 million.
"Our thesis is that there's no way that enterprises today can continue to analyze all their data in real time," said Edge Delta co-founder and CEO Ozan Unlu, who has worked in the observability space for about 15 years already (including at Microsoft and Sumo Logic). "The way that it was traditionally done with these primitive, centralized models — there's just too much data. It worked 10 years ago, but gigabytes turned into terabytes and now terabytes are turning into petabytes. That whole model is breaking down."
Image Credits: Edge Delta
He acknowledges that traditional big data warehousing works quite well for business intelligence and analytics use cases. But that's not real-time and also involves moving a lot of data from where it's generated to a centralized warehouse. The promise of Edge Delta is that it can offer all of the capabilities of this centralized model by allowing enterprises to start to analyze their logs, metrics, traces and other telemetry right at the source. This, in turn, also allows them to get visibility into all of the data that's generated there, instead of many of today's systems, which only provide insights into a small slice of this information.
While competing services tend to have agents that run on a customer's machine, but typically only compress the data, encrypt it and then send it on to its final destination, Edge Delta's agent starts analyzing the data right at the local level. With that, if you want to, for example, graph error rates from your Kubernetes cluster, you wouldn't have to gather all of this data and send it off to your data warehouse where it has to be indexed before it can be analyzed and graphed.
With Edge Delta, you could instead have every single node draw its own graph, which Edge Delta can then combine later on. With this, Edge Delta argues, its agent is able to offer significant performance benefits, often by orders of magnitude. This also allows businesses to run their machine learning models at the edge, as well.
"What I saw before I was leaving Splunk was that people were sort of being choosy about where they put workloads for a variety of reasons, including cost control," said Menlo Ventures' Tim Tully, who joined the firm only a couple of months ago. "So this idea that you can move some of the compute down to the edge and lower latency and do machine learning at the edge in a distributed way was incredibly fascinating to me."
Edge Delta is able to offer a significantly cheaper service, in large part because it doesn't have to run a lot of compute and manage huge storage pools itself since a lot of that is handled at the edge. And while the customers obviously still incur some overhead to provision this compute power, it's still significantly less than what they would be paying for a comparable service. The company argues that it typically sees about a 90 percent improvement in total cost of ownership compared to traditional centralized services.
Edge Delta charges based on volume and it is not shy to compare its prices with Splunk's and does so right on its pricing calculator. Indeed, in talking to Tully and Unlu, Splunk was clearly on everybody's mind.
"There's kind of this concept of unbundling of Splunk," Unlu said. "You have Snowflake and the data warehouse solutions coming in from one side, and they're saying, 'hey, if you don't care about real time, go use us.' And then we're the other half of the equation, which is: actually there's a lot of real-time operational use cases and this model is actually better for those massive stream processing datasets that you required to analyze in real time."
But despite this competition, Edge Delta can still integrate with Splunk and similar services. Users can still take their data, ingest it through Edge Delta and then pass it on to the likes of Sumo Logic, Splunk, AWS's S3 and other solutions.
"If you follow the trajectory of Splunk, we had this whole idea of building this business around IoT and Splunk at the Edge — and we never really quite got there," Tully said. "I think what we're winding up seeing collectively is the edge actually means something a little bit different. […] The advances in distributed computing and sophistication of hardware at the edge allows these types of problems to be solved at a lower cost and lower latency."
The Edge Delta team plans to use the new funding to expand its team and support all of the new customers that have shown interest in the product. For that, it is building out its go-to-market and marketing teams, as well as its customer success and support teams.
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Written by Frederic Lardinois in: AWS,Big Data,business intelligence,Cloud,computing,CTO,data security,data warehouse,Datadog,Enterprise,Information technology,MaC Venture Capital,machine learning,menlo ventures,New Relic,real-time,Recent Funding,Seattle,splunk,Startups,sumo logic,system administration,TC,Technology,Zend Developer | Tags: microsoft
Network security startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit
Last year, Seattle-based network security startup ExtraHop was riding high, quickly approaching $100 million in ARR and even making noises about a possible IPO in 2021. But there will be no IPO, at least for now, as the company announced this morning it has been acquired by a pair of private equity firms for $900 million.
The firms, Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners, are buying a security solution that provides controls across a hybrid environment, something that could be useful as more companies find themselves in a position where they have some assets on-site and some in the cloud.
The company is part of the narrower Network Detection and Response (NDR) market. According to Jesse Rothstein, ExtraHop's chief technology officer and co-founder, it's a technology that is suited to today's threat landscape, "I will say that ExtraHop's north star has always really remained the same, and that has been around extracting intelligence from all of the network traffic in the wire data. This is where I think the network detection and response space is particularly well suited to protecting against advanced threats," he told TechCrunch.
The company uses analytics and machine learning to figure out if there are threats and where they are coming from, regardless of how customers are deploying infrastructure. Rothstein said he envisions a world where environments have become more distributed with less defined perimeters and more porous networks.
"So the ability to have this high-quality detection and response capability utilizing next generation machine learning technology and behavioral analytics is so very important," he said.
Max de Groen, managing director at Bain, says his company was attracted to the NDR space, and saw ExtraHop as a key player. "As we looked at the NDR market, ExtraHop, which [ … ] has spent 14 years building the product, really stood out as the best individual technology in the space," de Groen told us.
Security remains a frothy market with lots of growth potential. We continue to see a mix of startups and established platform players jockeying for position, and private equity firms often try to establish a package of services. Last week, Symphony Technology Group bought FireEye's product group for $1.2 billion, just a couple of months after snagging McAfee's enterprise business for $4 billion as it tries to cobble together a comprehensive enterprise security solution.
Written by Ron Miller in: Bain Capital,Cloud,Crosspoint Capital,EC Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure,EC Enterprise Applications,Enterprise,Exit,extrahop,Fundings & Exits,M&A,Mergers and Acquisitions,Private Equity,Seattle,Startups,Zend Developer | Tags: security
Amazon will expand its Amazon Care on-demand healthcare offering U.S.-wide this summer
Amazon is apparently pleased with how its Amazon Care pilot in Seattle has gone, since it announced this morning that it will be expanding the offering across the U.S. this summer, and opening it up to companies of all sizes, in addition to its own employees. The Amazon Care model combines on-demand and in-person care, and is meant as a solution from the search giant to address shortfalls in current offering for employer-sponsored healthcare offerings.
In a blog post announcing the expansion, Amazon touted the speed of access to care made possible for its employees and their families via the remote, chat and video-based features of Amazon Care. These are facilitated via a dedicated Amazon Care app, which provides direct, live chats via a nurse or doctor. Issues that then require in-person care is then handled via a house call, so a medical professional is actually sent to your home to take care of things like administering blood tests or doing a chest exam, and prescriptions are delivered to your door as well.
The expansion is being handled differently across both in-person and remote variants of care; remote services will be available starting this summer to both Amazon's own employees, as well as other companies who sign on as customers, starting this summer. The in-person side will be rolling out more slowly, starting with availability in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and "other cities in the coming months" according to the company.
As of today, Amazon Care is expanding in its home state of Washington to begin serving other companies. The idea is that others will sing on to make Amazon Care part of its overall benefits package for employees. Amazon is touting the speed advantages of testing services, including results delivery, for things including COVID-19 as a major strength of the service.
The Amazon Care model has a surprisingly Amazon twist, too – when using the in-person care option, the app will provide an updating ETA for when to expect your physician or medical technician, which is eerily similar to how its primary app treats package delivery.
While the Amazon Care pilot in Washington only launched a year-and-a-half ago, the company has had its collective mind set on upending the corporate healthcare industry for some time now. It announced a partnership with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan back at the very beginning of 2018 to form a joint venture specifically to address the gaps they saw in the private corporate healthcare provider market.
Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway to build their own healthcare company
That deep pocketed all-star team ended up officially disbanding at the outset of this year, after having done a whole lot of not very much in the three years in between. One of the stated reasons that Amazon and its partners gave for unpartnering was that each had made a lot of progress on its own in addressing the problems it had faced anyway. While Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan's work in that regard might be less obvious, Amazon was clearly referring to Amazon Care.
It's not unusual for large tech companies with lots of cash on the balance sheet and a need to attract and retain top-flight talent to spin up their own healthcare benefits for their workforces. Apple and Google both have their own on-campus wellness centers staffed by medical professionals, for instance. But Amazon's ambitious have clearly exceeded those of its peers, and it looks intent on making a business line out of the work it did to improve its own employee care services — a strategy that isn't too dissimilar from what happened with AWS, by the way.
Written by Darrell Etherington in: Amazon,Amazon Care,Apple,AWS,baltimore,Berkshire Hathaway,computing,Enterprise,eta,Health,healthcare,jpmorgan,physician,Seattle,TC,Technology,United States,Washington,Washington D.C.,Zend Developer | Tags: google
OctoML raises $28M Series B for its machine learning acceleration platform
OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform built on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners also participated in this round, which brings the company's total funding to $47 million. The company last raised in April 2020, when it announced its $15 million Series A round led by Amplify.
The promise of OctoML, which was founded by the team that also created TVM, is that developers can bring their models to its platform and the service will automatically optimize that model's performance for any given cloud or edge device.
As Brazil-born OctoML co-founder and CEO Luis Ceze told me, since raising its Series A round, the company started onboarding some early adopters to its "Octomizer" SaaS platform.
Image Credits: OctoML
"It's still in early access, but we are we have close to 1,000 early access sign-ups on the waitlist," Ceze said. "That was a pretty strong signal for us to end up taking this [funding]. The Series B was pre-emptive. We were planning on starting to raise money right about now. We had barely started spending our Series A money — we still had a lot of that left. But since we saw this growth and we had more paying customers than we anticipated, there were a lot of signals like, 'hey, now we can accelerate the go-to-market machinery, build a customer success team and continue expanding the engineering team to build new features.' "
Ceze tells me that the team also saw strong growth signals in the overall community around the TVM project (with about 1,000 people attending its virtual conference last year). As for its customer base (and companies on its waitlist), Ceze says it represents a wide range of verticals that range from defense contractors to financial services and life science companies, automotive firms and startups in a variety of fields.
Recently, OctoML also launched support for the Apple M1 chip — and saw very good performance from that.
The company has also formed partnerships with industry heavyweights like Microsoft (which is also a customer), Qualcomm and AMD to build out the open-source components and optimize its service for an even wider range of models (and larger ones, too).
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On the engineering side, Ceze tells me that the team is looking at not just optimizing and tuning models but also the training process. Training ML models can quickly become costly and any service that can speed up that process leads to direct savings for its users — which in turn makes OctoML an easier sell. The plan here, Ceze tells me, is to offer an end-to-end solution where people can optimize their ML training and the resulting models and then push their models out to their preferred platform. Right now, its users still have to take the artifact that the Octomizer creates and deploy that themselves, but deployment support is on OctoML's roadmap.
"When we first met Luis and the OctoML team, we knew they were poised to transform the way ML teams deploy their machine learning models," said Lee Fixel, founder of Addition. "They have the vision, the talent and the technology to drive ML transformation across every major enterprise. They launched Octomizer six months ago and it's already becoming the go-to solution developers and data scientists use to maximize ML model performance. We look forward to supporting the company's continued growth."
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Written by Frederic Lardinois in: Addition,AMD,amplify,amplify-partners,artificial intelligence,brazil,Developer,Enterprise,Lee Fixel,machine learning,madrona venture group,ML,OctoML,Qualcomm,Recent Funding,Seattle,Series A,Sony,Startups,Venture Capital,Zend Developer | Tags: microsoft
AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones
AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers' existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller versions so that its users can also deploy them in their stores or office locations. These appliances are fully managed by AWS and offer 64 cores of compute, 128GB of memory and 4TB of local NVMe storage.
In addition, the company expanded its set of Local Zones, which are basically small extensions of existing AWS regions that are more expensive to use but offer low-latency access in metro areas. This service launched in Los Angeles in 2019 and starting today, it's also available in preview in Boston, Houston and Miami. Soon, it'll expand to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Seattle. Google, it's worth noting, is doing something similar with its Mobile Edge Cloud.
The general idea here — and that's not dissimilar from what Google, Microsoft and others are now doing — is to bring AWS to the edge and to do so in a variety of form factors.
As AWS CEO Andy Jassy rightly noted, AWS always believed that the vast majority of companies, "in the fullness of time" (Jassy's favorite phrase from this keynote), would move to the cloud. Because of this, AWS focused on cloud services over hybrid capabilities early on. He argues that AWS watched others try and fail in building their hybrid offerings, in large parts because what customers really wanted was to use the same control plane on all edge nodes and in the cloud. None of the existing solutions from other vendors, Jassy argues, got any traction (though AWSs competitors would surely deny this) because of this.
The first result of that was VMware Cloud on AWS, which allowed customers to use the same VMware software and tools on AWS they were already familiar with. But at the end of the day, that was really about moving on-premises services to the cloud.
With Outpost, AWS launched a fully managed edge solution that can run AWS infrastructure in its customers' data centers. It's been an interesting journey for AWS, but the fact that the company closed out its keynote with this focus on hybrid — no matter how it wants to define it — shows that it now understands that there is clearly a need for this kind of service. The AWS way is to extend AWS into the edge — and I think most of its competitors will agree with that. Microsoft tried this early on with Azure Stack and really didn't get a lot of traction, as far as I'm aware, but it has since retooled its efforts around Azure Arc. Google, meanwhile, is betting big on Anthos.
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Written by Frederic Lardinois in: Amazon Web Services,Atlanta,AWS re:Invent 2020,boston,chicago,Cloud,cloud applications,Cloud Computing,cloud infrastructure,cloud services,computing,Dallas,denver,Developer,Enterprise,Houston,Kansas City,Las Vegas,los angeles,miami,minneapolis,mobile edge,New York,Philadelphia,phoenix,Portland,Seattle,TC,VMware,web hosting,web services,Zend Developer | Tags: google, microsoft
Temporal raises $18.75M for its microservices orchestration platform
Temporal, a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised an $18.75 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors Addition Ventures and Amplify Partners also joined, together with new investor Madrona Venture Group. With this, the company has now raised a total of $25.5 million.
Founded by Maxim Fateev (CEO) and Samar Abbas (CTO), who created the open-source Cadence orchestration engine during their time at Uber, Temporal aims to make it easier for developers and operators to run microservices in production. Current users include the likes of Box and Snap.
"Before microservices, coding applications was much simpler," Temporal's Fateev told me. "Resources were always located in the same place — the monolith server with a single DB — which meant developers didn't have to codify a bunch of guessing about where things were. Microservices, on the other hand, are highly distributed, which means developers need to coordinate changes across a number of servers in different physical locations."
Those servers could go down at any time, so engineers often spend a lot of time building custom reliability code to make calls to these services. As Fateev argues, that's table stakes and doesn't help these developers create something that builds real business value. Temporal gives these developers access to a set of what the team calls "reliability primitives" that handle these use cases. "This means developers spend far more time writing differentiated code for their business and end up with a more reliable application than they could have built themselves," said Fateev.
Temporal's target use is virtually any developer who works with microservices — and wants them to be reliable. Because of this, the company's tool — despite offering a read-only web-based user interface for administering and monitoring the system — isn't the main focus here. The company also doesn't have any plans to create a no-code/low-code workflow builder, Fateev tells me. However, since it is open-source, quite a few Temporal users build their own solutions on top of it.
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The company itself plans to offer a cloud-based Temporal-as-a-Service offering soon. Interestingly, Fateev tells me that the team isn't looking at offering enterprise support or licensing in the near future. "After spending a lot of time thinking it over, we decided a hosted offering was best for the open-source community and long-term growth of the business," he said.
Unsurprisingly, the company plans to use the new funding to improve its existing tool and build out this cloud service, with plans to launch it into general availability next year. At the same time, the team plans to say true to its open-source roots and host events and provide more resources to its community.
"Temporal enables Snapchat to focus on building the business logic of a robust asynchronous API system without requiring a complex state management infrastructure," said Steven Sun, Snap Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer. "This has improved the efficiency of launching our services for the Snapchat community."
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: amplify-partners,ceo,Cloud Computing,cloud infrastructure,Developer,Enterprise,madrona venture group,microservices,Recent Funding,Seattle,Snap,snap inc,Snapchat,Startups,Temporal,Uber,Zend Developer |
Strike Graph raises $3.9M to help automate security audits
Compliance automation isn't exactly the most exciting topic, but security audits are big business and companies that aim to get a SOC 2, ISO 207001 or FedRamp certification can often spend six figures to get through the process with the help of an auditing service. Seattle-based Strike Graph, which is launching today and announcing a $3.9 million seed funding round, wants to automate as much of this process as possible.
The company's funding round was led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Amplify.LA, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Green D Ventures.
Strike Graph co-founder and CEO Justin Beals tells me that the idea for the company came to him during his time as CTO at machine learning startup Koru (which had a bit of an odd exit last year). To get enterprise adoption for that service, the company had to get a SOC 2 security certification. "It was a real challenge, especially for a small company. In talking to my colleagues, I just recognized how much of a challenge it was across the board. And so when it was time for the next startup, I was just really curious," he told me.
Image Credits: Strike Graph
Together with his co-founder Brian Bero, he incubated the idea at Madrona Venture Labs, where he spent some time as Entrepreneur in Residence after Koru.
Beals argues that today's process tends to be slow, inefficient and expensive. The idea behind Strike Graph, unsurprisingly, is to remove as many of these inefficiencies as is currently possible. The company itself, it is worth noting, doesn't provide the actual audit service. Businesses will still need to hire an auditing service for that. But Beals also argues that the bulk of what companies are paying for today is pre-audit preparation.
"We do all that preparation work and preparing you and then, after your first audit, you have to go and renew every year. So there's an important maintenance of that information."
When customers come to Strike Graph, they fill out a risk assessment. The company takes that and can then provide them with controls for how to improve their security posture — both to pass the audit and to secure their data. Beals also noted that soon, Strike Graph will be able to help businesses automate the collection of evidence for the audit (say your encryption settings) and can pull that in regularly. Certifications like SOC 2, after all, require companies to have ongoing security practices in place and get re-audited every 12 months. Automated evidence collection will launch in early 2021, once the team has built out the first set of its integrations to collect that data.
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That's also where the company, which mostly targets mid-size businesses, plans to spend a lot of its new funding. In addition, the company plans to focus on its marketing efforts, mostly around content marketing and educating its potential customers.
"Every company, big or small, that sells a software solution must address a broad set of compliance requirements in regards to security and privacy. Obtaining the certifications can be a burdensome, opaque and expensive process. Strike Graph is applying intelligent technology to this problem — they help the company identify the appropriate risks, enable the audit to run smoothly and then automate the compliance and testing going forward," said Hope Cochran, managing director at Madrona Venture Group. "These audits were a necessary pain when I was a CFO, and Strike Graph's elegant solution brings together teams across the company to move the business forward faster."
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: amplify,audit,auditing,business,economy,encryption,Enterprise,Entrepreneur,Finance,Hope Cochran,Justin Beals,Koru,machine learning,madrona venture group,Recent Funding,Seattle,seed fund,Startups,Strike Graph,TC,Zend Developer |
GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage
Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to COVID-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.
Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO.
GrubMarket, which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.
Sources close to the company confirmed to TechCrunch that GrubMarket — which is profitable, and originally hadn't planned to raise more than $20 million — has now doubled its valuation compared to its last round — sources tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.
The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital and Mojo Partners, alongside previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital, Scrum Ventures and other unnamed participants. Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort. For some context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 — $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says.
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Mike Xu, the founder and CEO, said that the plan remains for the company to go public (he's talked about it before), but given that it's not having trouble raising from private markets and is currently growing at 100% over last year, and the IPO market is less certain at the moment, he declined to put an exact timeline on when this might actually happen, although he was clear that this is where his focus is in the near future.
"The only success criteria of my startup career is whether GrubMarket can eventually make $100 billion of annual sales," he said to me over both email and in a phone conversation. "To achieve this goal, I am willing to stay heads-down and hardworking every day until it is done, and it does not matter whether it will take me 15 years or 50 years."
I don't doubt that he means it. I'll note that we had this call in the middle of the night his time in California, even after I asked multiple times if there wasn't a more reasonable hour in the daytime for him to talk. (He insisted that he got his best work done at 4:30 a.m., a result of how a lot of the grocery business works.) Xu on the one hand is very gentle with a calm demeanor, but don't let his quiet manner fool you. He also is focused and relentless in his work ethic.
When people talk today about buying food, alongside traditional grocery stores and other physical food markets, they increasingly talk about grocery delivery companies, restaurant delivery platforms, meal kit services and more that make or provide food to people by way of apps. GrubMarket has built itself as a profitable but quiet giant that underpins the fuel that helps companies in all of these categories by becoming one of the critical companies building bridges between food producers and those that interact with customers.
Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market. Food production is not unlike shipping and other older, non-tech industries, with a lot of transactions couched in legacy processes: GrubMarket has built software that connects the different segments of the food supply chain in a faster and more efficient way, and then provides the logistics to help it run.
To be sure, it's an area that would have evolved regardless of the world health situation, but the rise and growth of the coronavirus has definitely "helped" GrubMarket not just by creating more demand for delivered food, but by providing a way for those in the food supply chain to interact with less contact and more tech-fueled efficiency.
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Sales of WholesaleWare, as the platform is called, Xu said, have seen more than 800% growth over the last year, now managing "several hundreds of millions of dollars of food wholesale activities" annually.
Underpinning its tech is the sheer size of the operation: economies of scale in action. The company is active in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Texas, Michigan, Boston and New York (and many places in between) and says that it currently operates some 21 warehouses nationwide. Xu describes GrubMarket as a "major food provider" in the Bay Area and the rest of California, with (as one example) more than 5 million pounds of frozen meat in its east San Francisco Bay warehouse.
Its customers include more than 500 grocery stores, 8,000 restaurants and 2,000 corporate offices, with familiar names like Whole Foods, Kroger, Albertson, Safeway, Sprouts Farmers Market, Raley's Market, 99 Ranch Market, Blue Apron, Hello Fresh, Fresh Direct, Imperfect Foods, Misfit Market, Sun Basket and GoodEggs all on the list, with GrubMarket supplying them items that they resell directly, or use in creating their own products (like meal kits).
While much of GrubMarket's growth has been — like a lot of its produce — organic, its profitability has helped it also grow inorganically. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.
It's not to say that GrubMarket has not had growing pains. The company, Xu said, was like many others in the food delivery business — "overwhelmed" at the start of the pandemic in March and April of this year. "We had to limit our daily delivery volume in some regions, and put new customers on waiting lists." Even so, the B2C business grew between 300% and 500% depending on the market. Xu said things calmed down by May and even as some B2B customers never came back after cities were locked down, as a category, B2B has largely recovered, he said.
Interestingly, the startup itself has taken a very proactive approach in order to limit its own workers' and customers' exposure to COVID-19, doing as much testing as it could — tests have been, as we all know, in very short supply — as well as a lot of social distancing and cleaning operations.
"There have been no mandates about masks, but we supplied them extensively," he said.
So far it seems to have worked. Xu said the company has only found "a couple of employees" that were positive this year. In one case in April, a case was found not through a test (which it didn't have, this happened in Michigan) but through a routine check and finding an employee showing symptoms, and its response was swift: the facilities were locked down for two weeks and sanitized, despite this happening in one of the busiest months in the history of the company (and the food supply sector overall).
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That's notable leadership at a time when it feels like a lot of leaders have failed us, which only helps to bolster the company's strong growth.
"Having a proven track record of sustained hypergrowth and net income profitability, GrubMarket stands out as an extraordinarily rare Silicon Valley startup in the food technology and ecommerce segment," said Jay Chen, managing partner of Celtic House Venture Partner. "Scaling over 15x in 4 years, GrubMarket's creativity and capital efficiency is unmatched by anyone else in this space. Mike's team has done an incredible job growing the company thoughtfully and sustainably. We are proud to be a partner in the company's rapid nationwide expansion and excited by the strong momentum of WholesaleWare, their SaaS suite, which is the best we have seen in space."
Updated with more detail on the valuation.
Written by Ingrid Lunden in: BlackRock,Blue Apron,boston,california,Celtic House Venture Partners,digital-garage,DoorDash,e-commerce,eCommerce,Enterprise,farmer's market,food,food delivery,food production,food supply chain,Food Technology,ggv capital,grocery delivery,Grocery store,GrubMarket,hello fresh,imperfect foods,kroger,los angeles,marketing,michigan,Mike Xu,Mojo Partners,New York,online food ordering,Recent Funding,Reimagined Ventures,retailers,safeway,san diego,Seattle,Startups,Sun Basket,TC,texas,whole foods,WI Harper Group,Y Combinator,Zend Developer |
Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform
Seattle-based Pulumi has quickly made a name for itself as a modern platform that lets developers specify their infrastructure through writing code in their preferred programming language — and not YAML. With the launch of Pulumi 2.0, those languages now include JavaScript, TypeScript, Go and .NET, in addition to its original support for Python. It's also now extending its reach beyond its core infrastructure features to include deeper support for policy enforcement, testing and more.
As the company also today announced, it now has over 10,000 users and more than 100 paying customers. With that, it's seeing a 10x increase in its year-over-year annual run rate, though without knowing the exact numbers, it's obviously hard to know what exactly to make of that number. Current customers include the likes of Cockroach Labs, Mercedes-Benz and Tableau .
When the company first launched, its messaging was very much around containers and serverless. But as Pulumi founder and CEO Joe Duffy told me, today the company is often directly engaging with infrastructure teams that are building the platforms for the engineers in their respective companies.
As for Pulumi 2.0, Duffy says that "this is really taking the original Pulumi vision of infrastructure as code — using your favorite language — and augmenting it with what we're calling superpowers." That includes expanding the product's overall capabilities from infrastructure provisioning to the adjacent problem spaces. That includes continuous delivery, but also policy-as-code. This extends the original Pulumi vision beyond just infrastructure but now also lets developers encapsulate their various infrastructure policies as code, as well.
Another area is testing. Because Pulumi allows developers to use "real" programming languages, they can also use the same testing techniques they are used to from the application development world to test the code they use to build their underlying infrastructure and catch mistakes before they go into production. And with all of that, developers can also use all of the usual tools they use to write code for defining the infrastructure that this code will then run on.
"The underlying philosophy is taking our heritage of using the best of what we know and love about programming languages — and really applying that to the entire spectrum of challenges people face when it comes to cloud infrastructure, from development to infrastructure teams to security engineers, really helping the entire organization be more productive working together," said Duffy. "I think that's the key: moving from infrastructure provisioning to something that works for the whole organization."
Duffy also highlighted that many of the company's larger enterprise users are relying on Pulumi to encode their own internal architectures as code and then roll them out across the company.
"We still embrace what makes each of the clouds special. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes," Duffy said. "We're not trying to be a PaaS that abstracts over all. We're just helping to be the consistent workflow across the entire team to help people adopt the modern approaches."
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: Cloud Computing,cockroach labs,computing,Developer,Enterprise,Javascript,Mercedes-Benz,Programming Languages,Pulumi,python,Seattle,serverless computing,tableau,TC,TypeScript,Zend Developer |


Johannesburg – It seems these days all celebs seem to be serving up is a whole lot of beef. Come on guys, let's make love, not war.
Bonang Matheba has been caught in the middle of many beefy scandals, so it wouldn't be too difficult for fans to believe rumours that she is not on speaking terms with presenter, Lerato Kganyago. Fortunately B* says those rumours are rubbish!
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President Trump announces Misty May-Treanor to Presidential Council
Misty May-Treanor to be appointed co-chair of President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
This past weekend was quite the weekend for Long Beach volleyball. On Saturday, the Long Beach State men's volleyball team won its first national championship in 27 years against UCLA at the Pauley Pavilion in Westwood, California.
On Friday, President Trump announced his chairs of the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition (PCSFN), which includes three-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Long Beach City College Director of Volleyball Operations and Long Beach State alumna, Misty May-Treanor.
Others appointed to the PCSFN were New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, former New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, football legend Herschel Junior Walker, golfer Natalie Gulpis and the man who gave President Trump a clean bill of health during the 2016 presidential campaign, Dr. Mehmet Oz. All appointed members will chair their respected positions for a two-year term.
May-Treanor, 40, currently oversees both men's and women's programs at Long Beach City College. She won Olympic gold medals with long-time partner, Kerri Walsh-Jennings, in 2004, 2008 and 2012 before retiring after the 2012 Olympic Games at the age of 34. Walsh and May-Treanor are 66-time event champions and once went on an incredible 112 match winning streak.
The PCSFN was established in the '50s, and it encourages Americans to live a healthy and active lifestyle through good nutrition and by learning from fitness professionals and educators.
Congratulations to Misty May-Treanor on an incredible honor. You make the city of Long Beach proud.


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Forth Road Bridge Brings New Passenger Services
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Page 28, 4th September 1964 — Forth Road Bridge Brings New Passenger Services
DIRECT bus services from Edinburgh to Dunfermline, and to Kirkcaldy and Leven will be introduced for the first time tomorrow (September 5) following the opening of the new Forth Road Bridge today by Her Majesty The Queen. Previously the only direct connections between Fife and Edinburgh were by rail, and passengers wishing to travel to Dunfermline, for example, by road, had to cross the Forth by ferry from South Queensferry and walk several hundred yards to catch a bus from North Queensferry.
The new through bus service to Dunfermline operates half hourly with alternate journeys via South Queensferry, A journey time of 45 minutes is provided on the direct journeys. the South Queensferry journeys taking 10 minutes longer. This compares with a journey time of about 10 minutes by rail, and as already announced in The Commercial Motor, August 21, British Railways have slashed fares on their routes into Fife in anticipation of competition from the new bus services. The single fare to Dunfermline, for example, is now only 2d. more than the single fare on the new bus service.
• An hourly bus service will operate between Edinburgh and Leven, via Kirkcaldy, with a half-hourly service as far as Kirkcaldy on Saturdays. The through journey from Edinburgh to Leven (a distance of 32 miles) is scheduled to lake 95 minutes. Both new services will be operated jointly by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. and W. Alexander and Sons (Fife) Ltd. The opportunity is also being taken to introduce day and afternoon tours via the bridge. Scottish Omnibuses tours from Edinburgh to Braemar and Spittal of Glenshee, to Pitlochry, Pass of Kittlecrankie and Loch Tay, and to Glamis Castle will now travel outwards via the Forth Bridge, whilst tours to Aberfoyle, Trossachs and Loch Katrine, to Comrie Moor and Loch Earn and to Fintry Hills, Balmaha and Loch Lomond will return to Edinburgh via the bridge. Two new afternoon tours will be introduced from Edinburgh to Glenfarg, Perth and Gleneagles and to Culross and Dunfermline, the former using the new bridge in both directions, and the latter travelling outwards via the Kincardine bridge and returning via the Forth bridge.
An additional tour to be operated until further notice will he a Forth Road Bridge tour, of approximately one hour's duration, coaches travelling out to the bridge, crossing it, and returning to Edinburgh immediately by the same route. This tour will operate at frequent intervals, and is due to start operating as soon as the bridge is opened to vehicular traffic this afternoon.
Locations: Perth, Dunfermline, Fife, Leven, Glenfarg, Gleneagles, Edinburgh, Spittal, Braemar


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Kane scores twice in first start for Spurs
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Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur celebrates after scoring their team's first goal during the UEFA Conference League Play-Offs Leg Two match between Tottenham Hotspur and Pacos de Ferreira at on August 26, 2021 in London, England.
Harry Kane netted a double in his first match since announcing that he will stay at Tottenham this season as Spurs beat Pacos de Ferreira 3-0 on Thursday to overturn a first-leg deficit in the Europa Conference League play-off round.
Nuno Espirito Santo's men head into Friday's group-stage draw for the inaugural edition of Uefa's third-tier competition.
England striker Kane had wanted to leave Spurs in the close season for Manchester City, but was denied a move by club chairman Daniel Levy and confirmed earlier this week he would be remaining in north London.
He had missed Tottenham's first two games of the campaign to regain full fitness after captaining England on their run to the Euro 2020 final, but made a substitute appearance in a 1-0 win at Nuno's former club Wolves last weekend.
"I see Harry every day since he joined us, every day. He doesn't have to prove (anything) to anyone," Nuno said. "He's committed. You can see.
"All the situations that have happened, are part of the past, let's look and move forward, but I see him every day."
Santo gave Kane his first start since taking over as manager and also named him as captain with usual skipper Hugo Lloris rested.
The 28-year-old made an almost immediate impact at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, levelling the tie, after a 1-0 first-leg loss in Portugal, in the ninth minute by collecting Bryan Gil's pass and slotting home.
Kane pounced on a loose ball in the box to put Spurs in control 10 minutes before half-time, to the delight of the home fans who had sung his name at Molineux when his future was still uncertain.
Giovani Lo Celso put the result beyond doubt in the second half and Kane was replaced by Son Heung-min with 18 minutes left.
"He (Kane) is still improving," Nuno added. "But playing is the best way for all players to improve, to compete and the edge of the game is what takes players beyond their limits and that is what we expect from all of them."
Jose Mourinho's Roma eased into the group phase with a 3-0 second-leg victory over Trabzonspor at the Stadio Olimpico.
The Italian side wrapped up a 5-1 aggregate success to book their spot in Friday's draw and give Mourinho a third straight win since taking charge.
Roma, who also won their Serie A opener against Fiorentina at the weekend, put the tie beyond their Turkish visitors' reach with Bryan Cristante's 20th-minute strike.
Nicolo Zaniolo and substitute Stephan El Shaarawy both scored in the second half as Roma progressed with the minimum of fuss.
French club Rennes also cruised through, winning 3-1 over Rosenborg in Norway for a 5-1 aggregate success.
Maximilian Wittek's double helped the Netherlands' Vitesse Arnhem edge out Anderlecht 2-1 and 5-4 on aggregate, while FC Copenhagen thrashed Sivasspor 5-0 in the Danish capital after a 2-1 first-leg win.
Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar reached the group stage of a European competition for the first time, beating Riga in extra time.
In the Europa League play-offs, Fenerbahce saw off HJK 6-2 on aggregate, winning 5-2 in Finland, while Rapid Vienna beat Zorya Luhansk 3-2 in Ukraine after last week's 3-0 first-leg victory.
Scottish giants Celtic held on for a 3-2 aggregate win over AZ Alkmaar despite losing in the Netherlands.
Kyogo Furuhashi's brilliant start to life in Glasgow since signing from Kashima Antlers continued with his seventh goal for Celtic.
AZ hit back to lead on the night before half-time, but a 2-1 defeat was enough for Celtic to give their new era under Ange Postecoglou another boost after an impressive start to the season since the former Australia boss took charge.
Steven Gerrard's Rangers also edged into the group stage, beating Alashkert 1-0 on aggregate after a goalless draw in Armenia.