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Restate raises $7M to make building fault-tolerant applications easier
Restate GmbH, a startup with technology that allows applications to automatically recover from technical issues, today announced that it has closed a $7 million investment. Redpoint Ventures led the seed round. It was joined by Essence VC, firstminute.capital and multiple angel investors including the founders of Datadog Inc. and Confluent Inc. Enterprise applications can malfunction ...
Black Semiconductor secures €254.4M to develop graphene-based chip interconnects
Black Semiconductor GmbH, a startup that plans to make chip-to-chip interconnects from graphene, has secured €254.4 million in funding to support its research. The investment was disclosed today. Black Semiconductor, a spinout from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, said that the bulk of the capital was provided by Germany’s federal government and the state of ...
Databricks debuts new data pipeline and business intelligence tools
Databricks Inc. today introduced two new products, LakeFlow and AI/BI, that promise to ease several of the tasks involved in analyzing business information for useful patterns. LakeFlow is designed to simplify the process of building data pipelines. AI/BI, in turn, is a business intelligence platform with a built-in artificial intelligence chatbot. Databricks unveiled the offerings ...
Contact center automation startup Cognigy closes $100M funding round
Cognigy GmbH, the developer of an artificial intelligence platform designed to make contact centers more efficient, today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round. Eurazeo Growth led the Series C investment. It was joined by Insight Partners, DTCP, DN Capital and several other backers. The round follows several years in which Düsseldorf ...
Cyberhaven reels in $88M for its data security platform
Startup Cyberhaven Inc. has raised $88 million to widen the adoption of its namesake cybersecurity platform, which helps companies detect and block misuse of their business data. The round, a Series C investment, was announced this morning. Cyberhaven says that Adams Street Partners and Khosla Ventures were the lead investors. The round also drew contributions ...
Miniature computer maker Raspberry Pi raises £166M in London IPO
Shares of Raspberry Pi Holdings plc, a developer of miniature computers that power satellites and tomato bullhorns, jumped more than 37% in the company’s stock market debut today. The listing took place on the London Stock Exchange. Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi earlier raised £166 million, or $228 million, through an initial public offering. Investors bought 30.7% ...
Mandiant finds 165 Snowflake customers were targeted in hacking campaign
Mandiant today revealed that at least 165 organizations were targeted by a recent hacking campaign against Snowflake Inc. customers. The Google LLC unit, which provides breach response services, is working with the cloud data platform provider to notify affected users. Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC and LendingTree Inc., a publicly traded loan provider, are among the affected ...
Informatica rolls out new integrations for Databricks’ cloud data platform
Informatica Inc. is rolling out new integrations for Databricks Inc.’s cloud data platform that will help joint customers process their business information more efficiently. The integrations were developed as part of an expanded partnership that the companies announced today. In conjunction, Informatica is launching a technical blueprint designed to help customers build applications based on ...
Fortinet acquires cloud security startup Lacework
Fortinet Inc. has acquired Lacework Inc., a well-funded startup that helps enterprises protect their cloud environments from hackers. The companies didn’t disclose the financial terms in their announcement of the deal today. The acquisition comes about two months after reports emerged that Lacework had held sale talks with Wiz Inc., another venture-backed cybersecurity provider. The ...
Synopsys debuts ‘first complete’ chip blueprint bundle for implementing PCIe 7.0
Synopsys Inc. today introduced a suite of hardware designs that chipmakers can use to integrate the PCIe 7.0 interconnect technology into their products. According to the company, the suite is the industry’s “first complete” blueprint collection with all the core components necessary to implement PCIe 7.0. It comprises four main elements: a controller, PHY designs, ...