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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Glean raises $100M for its enterprise data search and discovery platform

Six months after exiting stealth mode, enterprise search engine startup Glean Technologies Inc. today announced that it has secured a $100 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation.  Sequoia Capital led the investment. Glean has raised a total of $155 million from investors to date. In large organizations, business information is often scattered across ...

Dynatrace posts strong financial results amid cloud growth

Observability provider Dynatrace Inc. today posted fourth-quarter financial results that surpassed analyst estimates across the board. In conjunction, the company announced that Chief Financial Officer Kevin Burns will leave at the end of the year. Burns joined the company in 2016 and led its initial public offering three years later. No reason for his departure ...

Microsoft to update software licensing terms after reported EU antitrust scrutiny

Microsoft Corp. will change the licensing terms of some software products after reportedly drawing scrutiny from antitrust regulators in the European Union. Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith announced the move in a blog post today.  Last year, a number of cloud providers in the EU filed regulatory complaints against Microsoft over its software ...

Strata Identity debuts new open-source tool to ease multicloud security

Startup Strata Identity Inc. today debuted a new open-source tool dubbed Hexa that promises to simplify cybersecurity for organizations using multiple public clouds. Boulder, Colorado-based Strata launched in 2019 and raised a $11 million funding round led by Menlo Ventures last year. The startup provides a software platform that helps companies secure their multicloud environments. Hexa, the ...

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 ...