MotherDuck, which plans to commercialize its lightweight database DuckDB, raised $47.5M across a seed and Series A led by Redpoint and a16z, respectively (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen on the number of people hired via LinkedIn being a core metric, generative AI, regulation, and more  —  We dive into managing the relationships between designers, engineers, and PMs. … Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn …

The Block:
SEC filing: Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee leaves, as the company plans to restructure its product team into four divisions  —  Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee is set to depart the exchange.  —  Coinbase revealed plans to overhaul its entire product team, which now reports directly to the CEO.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
London-based Sequence, which offers APIs and other tools for pricing, billing, and related services, raised a $19M seed led by a16z  —  When it comes to fintech, consumers have commanded the most attention in the last decade, with banking, credit, investing and other legacy services getting the disruption treatment.

Catarina Moura / The Block:
Golden, which is building a Web3 data protocol that is expected to fully launch in Q2 2023, raised a $40M Series B led by a16z, bringing total funding to $60M  —  – Golden has raised $40 million in a series led by a16z crypto.  — The Series B round included high-profile investors …

Stephen Graves / Decrypt:
Google Cloud says it is running a Solana validator and is indexing Solana data for BigQuery, will add Solana support to Blockchain Node Engine in 2023, and more  —  Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at around $36.80 at time of publication.

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:
Aztec Network, which is developing an “encrypted version of Ethereum”, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z and plans a testnet within 12 months  —  Aztec Network, a privacy layer for web3, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …