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US joins the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday following a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron that the U.S. has joined the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, an international cybersecurity partnership that the Trump administration ignored. The Paris Call was launched in November 2018 during the Paris Peace Forum. It aims to bring the international ...
Applied Intuition raises $175M for its autonomous vehicle development tools
Startup Applied Intuition Inc. today said that it has closed a $175 million funding round to expand the feature set and adoption of its software tools, which help automakers build autonomous driving systems. The round, raised at a $3.6 billion valuation, brings Applied Intuition’s total outside funding to more than $350 million. Investor and serial ...
Informatica debuts Cloud Data Marketplace for sharing datasets and AI models
Informatica LLC today introduced the Cloud Data Marketplace, a tool through which a company’s employees can share datasets and artificial intelligence models with one another. The Cloud Data Marketplace marks Informatica’s first major product update since going public last month. In a large enterprise, it’s not always obvious where a business analyst or data scientist ...
Cerebras Systems raises $250M for the ‘fastest AI processor on Earth’
Cerebras Systems Inc., the developer of a wafer-sized artificial intelligence chip with 2.6 trillion transistors, has raised $250 million in funding to further develop its technology and expand industry adoption. The funding was provided by Alpha Wave Ventures and Abu Dhabi Growth Fund. Cerebras Systems said in its announcement of the funding round today that ...
ControlUp closes $100M round to help enterprises optimize their virtual desktops
Startup ControlUp Technologies Ltd., which helps enterprises manage and troubleshoot the virtual desktops used by their employees for work, today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round co-led by K1 Investment Management and JVP. ControlUp will use the capital to expand its 250-person workforce. The additional employees will help the San Jose, ...
Alphabet’s CapitalG joins $250M round for data management startup Collibra
Data management startup Collibra Inc. is now valued at $5.25 billion, more than double what it was worth last April, after raising $250 million from a group of investors that included Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG investment arm. Collibra announced the investment this morning. The funding round also saw the participation of Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, ...
Socure raises $450M for its identity verification platform at $4.5B valuation
Socure Inc., a startup that helps companies such as banks verify the identities of their customers, has raised $450 million in funding after increasing bookings by 500% over the past year. The funding round, announced today, was jointly led by Accel and T. Rowe Price. Bain Capital Ventures and Tiger Global participated as well along ...
Palantir posts 36% revenue growth for third quarter, but stock drops
Palantir Technologies Inc. today reported that its revenue in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 grew by 36% year-over-year, to $392 million, above the $385 million that analysts polled by Refinitiv had expected. The data management and analytics provider’s earnings per share didn’t disappoint either, reaching four cents per share on an adjusted basis, in ...
UiPath introduces new RPA bot development features in latest platform release
UiPath Inc. today introduced a new release of its robotic process automation platform that provides enterprises with more ways of automating repetitive business tasks. Robotic process automation, or RPA, is an increasingly popular technology that helps organizations operate more efficiently. RPA tools such as UiPath’s platform enable companies to create software bots that can perform ...
AI pioneer Andrew Ng’s Landing AI raises $57M in funding
Landing AI Inc., a startup led by artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng, has raised $57 million in funding from a group of investors that included the venture capital arms of Intel Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The investment was announced this morning. Landing AI will reportedly use the proceeds from the round to double ...