TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Skype’s Engineering Head Joins Twilio

By TechTaffy Desk

Skype’s head of Engineering, Ott Kaukver, is joining Twilio as vice president of engineering. Mr. Kaukver will be leading Twilio’s  core engineering and operations teams.

Mr. Kaukver was responsible for managing the development of Skype products and growing a global engineering team. Mr. Kaukver also established Skype’s Mobile Engineering Unit and worked with mobile providers to develop a native Skype experience on handheld platforms.

Prior to his role at Skype, Mr. Kaukver served as the general manager of Software Development at Helmes. He holds a Bachelor of International Business Administration from the Estonian Business School and an MBA from INSEAD.

 

Just in

Series A

Tembo raises $14M

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

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. 
Fundings

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.
Around the web

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. 
IT

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.