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At Mechanical Orchard, our focus is on the “how” of modernizing critical legacy systems: safely, reliably, fearlessly.
The past few years have seen an explosion of examples highlighting the brittleness of important, crucial systems as they’ve aged. So we’re leaning in, hard: today, we announce the raising of $50m in a Series B round, led by GV (Google Ventures).
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This additional funding comes at an instrumental time for us at Pindrop as we continue to innovate groundbreaking voice security and authentication solutions. This support arrives as cyber threats continue to rise, with a 60% increase in contact center fraud in 2024 and a 450% increase in deepfake attacks in the first quarter of 2024 alone.
Our industry-leading deepfake detection technology, Pindrop Pulse, boasts a 96.4% accuracy rate with less than 1% false positives, underscoring our commitment to staying ahead of fraudsters and protecting our customers. With this new investment, we're set to redefine industry standards and continue delivering unparalleled security for our clients.
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8VC has been very instrumental in PeerDB (YC S23)'s journey so far. They really know the space (Data, Dev tools, Open Source) well and have been great partners! Thank you for all the advice and support so far Bhaskar GhoshKevin NiechenVenkatesh S.! Thanks for this super well written post Gabe Rosen. 🙏
Real-time, reliable data access is crucial for effective AI, as well as countless enterprise applications of olden times. Postgres has never been more important to the modern data stack, but you wouldn't know it from the data movement tools available.
Enter PeerDB (YC S23), which is fast emerging as the new data movement and ETL standard for Postgres enterprises. Built by longtime friends and Postgres builders Sai Krishna Srirampur and Kaushik Iska, PeerDB has been shipping product (and Postgres data) furiously from inception. By focusing on Postgres data types and quality, not quantity, of connectors - along with some extremely elegant implementations - PeerDB is consistently 10x faster and 80% cheaper than legacy ETL tools.
Today, PeerDB announced their seed round, which we were privileged to lead, along with participation from Y Combinator, Webb Investment Network, Wayfinder Ventures, and some distinguished angels. Congratulations to Sai, Kaushik, & friends!
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