It's no surprise that Harvard, Stanford, and MIT claim the largest number of female founder graduates, according to the latest CrunchBase Report. What's more interesting is that male founders are twice as likely as women to have a STEM undergrad degree.

The White House held its first ever Demo Day yesterday to promote diversity in tech, and we had a great time. Congrats to PartPic, a former TechCrunch Startup Battlefield participant (catch the next Battlefield at Disrupt SF, September 21-23) that was showcased at the event.

Fastly, a content delivery service based in San Francisco, announced $75M in Series D funding led by ICONIQ Capital. This brings Fastly's funding total to $129M in five rounds from a list of 9 investors.

Ben Thompson of Stratechery discusses the future of paid content and TV. As cable channels are slowly replaced by online video, he says, a few streaming giants (ESPN, HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video among them) will wage an intense competition for consumer attention and dollars.


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Tintri

$125M / Series F

Tintri develops VM-aware storage appliances that increase the performance of virtual servers and desktop environments. Tintri says it will use the $125M to expand globally via marketing and to increase its user base.

Mountain View California · Storage · Virtualization · Enterprise Software

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Fastly

$75M / Series D

Fastly is a content delivery service that helps companies quickly deliver dynamic content to their users. Fastly will use the $75M to develop new delivery solutions, expand globally, and invest in security and e-commerce.

San Francisco California · Content Delivery

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Amplitude

$9.0M / Series A

Amplitude is a scalable analytics platform built to fuel app growth. With the $9M, Amplitude plans to offer its basic features for free.

San Francisco California · Big Data · SaaS · Mobile Analytics

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