This engineer built a tool to help him automatically

This engineer built a tool to help him automatically respond to IT issues during his day job and then turned it into a startup that just raised $8 million

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Published 20 May 2020

· On Wednesday, the IT incident response platform FireHydrant announced an $8 million Series A funding round.
· Founder and CEO Robert Ross said he started FireHydrant because he had become frustrated with all of the simple, repetitive tasks that he had to complete when dealing with an IT incident. His tool will complete those...

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This engineer built a tool to help him automatically respond to IT issues during his day job and then turned it into a startup that just raised $8 million

This engineer built a tool to help him automatically respond to IT issues during his day job and then turned it into a startup that just raised $8 million

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