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  • A new era for Hex, and data

    Hex CEO Barry McCardel announces Hex 4.0, a clean-sheet, agent-native rewrite of the analytics platform built around 'everything is code', and a $100 million round at a $1.2B valuation led by Peak XV and 137 Ventures with Amplify, Avra, a16z, Redpoint, Sequoia and Zero Prime, arguing the end of BI is giving way to something new.

    Announcement · Data Analysis · AI Agents · Startups

    5 min · 1,166 words

  • A5 v1.0

    Felix Palmer announces A5 v1.0, the pentagonal Discrete Global Grid System that encodes any point, line or polygon on Earth as 64-bit cell IDs. The release freezes a permanent cell ID definition and adds compacted coverings with set operations, spatial hierarchy functions, equal-area cells and faster indexing across languages.

    Announcement · Open Source · Algorithms · Data Analysis · Announcements

    6 min · 1,313 words