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Cohesity’s valuation jumps to $3.7B with $145M equity sale
Institutional investors have offered to purchase some of the equity that Cohesity Inc. employees hold in the data management provider at a valuation of $3.7 billion, $1.2 billion more than what the company worth last year. The investors participating in the tender offer include Steadfast Capital Ventures, DFJ Growth, Foundation Capital, Wing Venture Capital and ...
Tricentis buys Neotys to broaden its continuous software testing capabilities
Tricentis GmbH, a major provider of tools for testing the reliability of enterprise software, has acquired Neotys SAS, another player in the software testing market that counts tech giants such as Cisco Systems Inc. among its customers. The deal is the latest in a series of acquisitions made by Tricentis in recent years. Tricentis, based ...
Amid rapid growth, ‘knowledge orchestration’ startup Zoomin raises $52M more
Zoomin Software Ltd., a startup that helps enterprise technology companies such as Dell Technologies Inc. share product explainers with customers, has raised $52 million in fresh funding. The Series C round, announced today, comes just four months after the New York and Israel-based startup announced a $21 million investment. This latest round is also notable ...
IBM debuts ‘industry’s first’ quantum developer certification
IBM Corp. today debuted what it describes as the industry’s first developer certification program focused on quantum computing, a move that represents a milestone for the nascent technology. Current quantum computers are only capable of performing relatively simple processing tasks. However, it’s believed that the technology will eventually become advanced enough to tackle calculations too ...
Deliveroo narrows IPO price target amid volatility in tech stocks
Food delivery giant Deliveroo today narrowed the price range for its forthcoming initial public offering, lowering the top end of its target valuation by £1 billion or about $1.38 billion. The move follows a recent slide in tech stocks driven by increased U.S. Treasury yields. London-based Deliveroo, incorporated as Roofoods Ltd., has about 6 million customers ...
Facebook details plans for two new undersea internet cables
Facebook Inc. this morning announced plans to deploy two new undersea internet cables that will connect the U.S. with Indonesia and Singapore. Google LLC is participating in one of the projects as well. For the last few years, the tech industry’s largest players have been driving a sizable portion of global spending on subsea internet ...
Blockchain analytics startup Chainalysis raises $100M in fresh funding
Chainalysis Inc., a startup that helps government agencies and banks detect illicit cryptocurrency transactions, has closed a $100 million funding round at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. The round, announced this morning, comes just months after the startup’s previous $100 million raise. This latest round saw the participation of Time Ventures, the investment firm of ...
AWS launches Lookout for Metrics to help companies monitor their operations
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Metrics, a machine learning service designed to help enterprises detect and respond to important business events such as a sudden jump in user sign-ups. With the service, AWS is looking to address a number of technical challenges that normally make such business ...
Cybersecurity startup Morphisec reels in $31M funding round
Morphisec Ltd., a cybersecurity startup with offices in the U.S. and Israel, today said that it has nabbed $31 million in fresh funding to support expansion initiatives. The startup employs a method it calls moving target defense to hide weak points in a company’s systems that hackers could potentially use to carry out breaches. Morphisec ...
Samsung’s newest memory chip more than doubles speeds of earlier modules
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a new type of random-access memory chip using an innovation known as high-k metal gate technology that can provide more than double the performance of previous-generation memory modules. Samsung detailed the chip (pictured) today. The company is targeting it at processor-intensive enterprise use cases such as supercomputing, machine learning ...