tech:

taffy

Jared Wray joins Cloud Foundry Foundation as Technical Fellow

Jared Wray will join the Cloud Foundry Foundation as the first Technical Fellow as part of the organization’s recently launched Fellowship program. Mr. Wray founded Tier 3, a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform company, acquired by CenturyLink in 2013.

“Jared is an exceptionally well-known member of the Cloud Foundry community, having founded Tier 3. At CenturyLink, they offer AppFog, which is Cloud Foundry certified and was developed prior to Jared leaving,” said Chip Childers, VP of Technology for Cloud Foundry Foundation.

The Cloud Foundry Foundation is an independent non-profit organization formed to sustain the development, promotion and adoption of Cloud Foundry.

[Image courtesy: The Cloud Foundry Foundation]

Just in

Tembo raises $14M

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Tembo, a Postgres managed service provider, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.

Raspberry Pi is now a public company — TC

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate, writes Romain Dillet. 

AlphaSense raises $650M

AlphaSense, a market intelligence and search platform, has raised $650 million in funding, co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners.

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI — VentureBeat

Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, writes Shubham Sharma. 

Capgemini partners with DARPA to explore quantum computing for carbon capture

Capgemini Government Solutions has launched a new initiative with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate quantum computing's potential in carbon capture.