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$1 billion NYC-startup Dash0 acquires Berlin tech company to build software that fixes itself
Dash0 is acquiring Polar Signals, gaining continuous profiling tech as it builds AI agents that can monitor and improve software in real time.
TL;DR
- Dash0, a New York City-headquartered observability company, is acquiring Berlin-based startup Polar Signals.
- Polar Signals specializes in continuous profiling, allowing developers to pinpoint where code consumes computing power and memory.
- Dash0 plans to integrate this technology into its platform and use it to train AI agents (Agent0) capable of monitoring and improving running software.
- A new feature, 'AutoTune,' will use AI to find inefficient code, suggest improvements, and prepare pull requests for automatic code optimization.
- The acquisition also includes Polar Signals' engineering team and its 'Great Lakes' storage engine, which will be the basis for Dash0's new SignalStore infrastructure.
- Dash0 recently achieved unicorn status with a $1 billion valuation after raising $110 million in Series B funding.