Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

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Unit secures $100M round at $1.2B valuation for its banking-as-a-service platform

Insight Partners has led a $100 million funding round for Unit Finance Inc., a startup helps companies launch new financial services faster. The round, which Unit announced this morning, also included the participation of Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Flourish Ventures, Moving Capital and Stepstone. The startup is now valued at $1.2 billion. Unit provides a ...

Chip startup Cornami raises $68M+ round to enable more secure data encryption

Cornami Inc., a startup with a specialized processor that can help companies protect their business data from cyberattacks, has raised more than $68 million in funding to support go-to-market initiatives.  Cornami announced the funding round today. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the investment, while Impact Venture Capital, Octave Ventures and multiple existing investors participated as ...

GreyOrange raises $110M for its AI-powered warehouse robots

Robotics startup GreyOrange today announced that it has raised $110 million from Mithril Capital and BlackRock. The investment included a mix of equity and debt financing, according to TechCrunch. GreyOrange, officially Grey Orange Pte. Ltd., will use the capital to grow its headcount by hiring an additional 300 workers. The startup plans to expand its ...

Uber teams up with Serve Robotics and Motional for autonomous food deliveries

Uber Technologies Inc. is teaming up with robotics startup Serve Robotics Inc. and Motional Inc., a self-driving vehicle company, to pilot an autonomous food delivery service in California. Uber announced the partnerships today. As part of the pilot program, the company will reportedly deploy robots from Serve Robotics in West Hollywood and Motional vehicles in ...

Sysdig debuts Sysdig Advisor to help developers fix Kubernetes errors faster

Sysdig Inc. today debuted a new software tool called Sysdig Advisor that promises to help companies fix technical issues in their Kubernetes deployments faster. San Francisco-based Sysdig is a unicorn startup backed by more than $700 million in funding. It offers two software products: One focuses on finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities, while the other, a platform ...

Veeam adds new cybersecurity and automation features to its Kasten K10 platform

Data protection giant Veeam Software Corp. today introduced a new version of Kasten K10, its backup and recovery platform for Kubernetes environments. Kasten K10 became part of Veeam’s product portfolio in late 2020 through a startup acquisition. The platform enables companies to create backup copies of the data in a Kubernetes environment and recover them ...

Newly launched AI startup Inflection AI raises $225M in funding

Artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI Inc. has raised $225 million in funding. Inflection AI detailed the funding in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Palo Alto, California-based startup specified that the financing was provided in the form of an equity investment but didn’t disclose the investors who provided the capital.  It ...

Twitter shares drop after Elon Musk tweets acquisition is ‘temporarily on hold’

Shares of Twitter Inc. declined more than 9% today after Elon Musk tweeted that his proposed $44 billion acquisition of the social network is “temporarily on hold.” “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk tweeted early this morning. In a second ...

Blockchain data startup Chainalysis secures $170M in funding at $8.6B valuation

Chainalysis Inc., which provides data about the cryptocurrency ecosystem to organizations such as government agencies and banks, has closed a $170 million funding round that values it at $8.6 billion. Chainalysis announced the funding round today. Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund was the lead investor, while Accel, Blackstone, Dragoneer, FundersClub, the Bank of New York ...

Komodor nabs $42M to help companies maintain their Kubernetes deployments

Kubernetes tooling provider Komodor Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $42 million funding round led by Tiger Global.  The round also included the participation of a half-dozen other investors. Among them was Accel, which led Komodor’s previous $25 million round last June. Tel Aviv-based Komodor provides a software platform that helps companies run ...