Afternoon must-reads Observe raises $115 million: Enterprises are under pressure to find more cost-effective ways to run their technologies. Thatâs where Observe comes in. The company, which is cozy with Snowflake, âbuilds observability tools for machine-generated data that aims to break down data silos, [which is] useful for developers to understand how apps are working, being used, and potentially failing.â Read More Drugs are only as good as the patient data: Century Health, which raised $2 million, is applying artificial intelligence to clinical data as a way to uncover new applications for drugs. Read More See how your apples are doing: Orchard Roboticsâ system is cutting out the middleman, or perhaps middle farmer. Founder and CEO Charlie Wu says Orchardâs cameras âimage trees from bud to bloom to harvest, and use advanced computer vision and machine learning models weâve developed to collect precise data about hundreds of millions of fruit.â Read More Music producer in-training: If your child saw âPitch Perfectâ and wants to do what Anna Kendrickâs character Beca did with her computer, Playtime Engineering has you covered. The Blipblox has all the bells and whistles to simplify electronic music-making. Read More Sensing road repairs: Cyvl.ai, now with $6 million in new capital, is using sensors that it says âcan create a digital twin of the infrastructure piece such as a road, and then showing where there are weaknesses and predicting when there is likely to be a repair event.â With all thatâs gone on with transportation infrastructure lately, seems like good timing. Read More | 
