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Otterize picks up $11.5M to automate authorization in Kubernetes clusters
Otterize Inc., a startup making it easier to move data between applications running on Kubernetes, has secured $11.5 million in seed funding. Otterize disclosed the funding round this morning. According to TechCrunch, Index Ventures was the lead investor. Dig Ventures, Vine Ventures, Jibe Ventures, Crew Capital and Operator Partners participated as well. Many enterprise applications ...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy highlights efficiency drive, AI opportunities in shareholder letter
Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy today released his second annual letter to shareholders since taking over the helm from company founder Jeff Bezos. Bezos penned a memo to shareholders every April starting from 1997, the year Amazon went public. Jassy (pictured) published his first shareholder letter in 2022, focusing on topics such as ...
Reverse proxy startup ngrok debuts new Kubernetes networking tool
Reverse proxy startup ngrok Inc. today debuted the Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, a tool designed to help companies process network traffic sent to their Kubernetes clusters. The tool is launching a few months after the startup secured $50 million in Series A funding. Enterprise applications process inbound network traffic with the help of a system ...
EU raises competition concerns over Broadcom’s $61B VMware acquisition
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, has determined that Broadcom Inc.’s proposed acquisition of VMware Inc. may harm market competition. The decision, which was released today, represents a preliminary view. A final decision is expected later this year. The development comes in connection with an antitrust investigation that the EU opened into the ...
Cerbos raises $7.5M for its open-source authorization platform
Cerbos, a startup with an open-source platform for managing user access to applications, today announced that it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding. OMERS Ventures led the round with participation from multiple angel investors. Cerbos, officially Zenauth Ltd., previously raised $3.5 million in 2021. The London-based startup said it will use the proceeds from ...
Google poll: Companies implementing fewer sustainability programs, but interest is strong
Fewer corporate sustainability programs are moving into the implementation stage than a year ago but interest among executives continues to be strong, according to a new Google LLC survey. The 2023 Google Cloud Sustainability Survey polled 1,476 senior executives in 16 countries. The study, which the search giant published today, was carried out on its ...
Regulators in US and China request public comment on AI rules
Two regulatory agencies, one in the U.S. and the other in China, today asked members of the public to submit feedback about future artificial intelligence rules. The parallel developments come as tech firms in both countries rush to incorporate advanced AI models into their products. At the same time, those models are drawing scrutiny in ...
Market intelligence startup AlphaSense reels in $100M at $1.8B valuation
AlphaSense Inc., the developer of a market intelligence platform popular among investors and large enterprises, has secured $100 million in fresh funding. Announced today, the round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG startup fund. Goldman Sachs and Viking Global Investors participated as well. The funding extends a $225 million Series D investment that AlphaSense first ...
Recorded Future launches GPT-powered cybersecurity analytics tool
Recorded Future Inc. today launched a cybersecurity tool that uses an artificial intelligence model from OpenAI LP to detect threats. Boston-based Recorded Future provides a software platform that helps companies track hacker activities. A bank, for example, can use the platform to detect new malware campaigns targeting the financial sector. Recorded Future says that its technology ...
Google debuts new API for detecting open-source security vulnerabilities
Google LLC is releasing an application programming interface that will enable developers to scan the open-source code they use for vulnerabilities and other issues. The deps.dev API, as it’s called, debuted today. It extends an open-source cybersecurity project called deps.dev that Google launched in 2021. Developers often incorporate packages from the open-source ecosystem into their ...