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New Relic Raises $100M

By TechTaffy Desk

Software analytics company New Relic has raised $100 million in financing. BlackRock and Passport Capital led the round, with T. Rowe Price Associates and Wellington Management also participating.  The company has raised $215 million to date.

New Relic says it currently analyzes over 200 billion data points per day for over three million application instances from tens of thousands of customers.

[Image courtesy: New Relic]

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