Startups and VC $26M for Airbyte, which is working to better connect data to where itâs needed: Having data is one thing, but startups are starting to get into not only storing data, but also how it gets ingested (Monte Carlo is working on that), and making sure itâs moved to where itâs needed. Thatâs where Airbyte comes in. And the companyâs latest round comes just months after it raised a $5.6 million seed deal. We asked our own Ron Miller what induced him to cover the round. Hereâs what he had to say: âWhat attracted me to this round was the fact that the founders were using open source to drive the development of a community of users, then worrying about monetization down the road.â Twilio opens wallet for Hyro: Whenever a company well known for leading a sea change in the tech world cuts a check, we tend to take notice. Recall when Salesforce was hip; its investments made waves. Today, Twilio is the BigCo in question, and Hyro the startup it is backing. Per our own Jordan Crook, Hyro âcalls itself an adaptive communications platform, which essentially means that customers use plug-and-play tools to get information to end users in a conversational way.â Very cool. $50M for Whatnot, which wants to livestream e-commerce: Look, if you are not into buying things, Whatnot is not going to be your jam. But if you are, it has a neat take on e-commerce that is popular around the world, but has yet to take off in North America. Notably this round comes mere months after Whatnot raised $20 million. Something something real-life NFTs?: What happens when you cross a startup that wants to bring blockchain to the real estate market and NFTs? You get this: Propy. The startup in question, is âauctioning a real apartment as an NFT.â I donât get it! But maybe thatâs the point. $65M for social engineering-fighting Tessian: U.K.-based Tessian is a cybersecurity company, which means that of course it raised a huge new round. The cybersecurity market is hotter than all heck given *waves arms around at all the breaches lately.* But what makes Tessian neat is that it is taking on the human side of things by âflagging problematic [usage] patterns [that] could signify risky stuff is happening.â | 