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Reaching $6B valuation in 18 months, cloud security startup Wiz raises $250M
Cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. today announced that it has achieved a $6 billion valuation, a mere 18 months after launching, thanks to a new $250 million funding round led by Greenoaks Capital and Insight Partners. The round comes six months after Wiz’s previous raise. The Israeli startup secured $350 million in funding at a $1.7 ...
Productivity startup Notion valued at $10B in latest $275M funding round
Notion Labs Inc. today disclosed that its valuation has jumped to $10 billion from $2 billion last April thanks to a new $275 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Coatue. The significant increase in the startup’s valuation is a reflection of its rapid business growth. San Francisco-based Notion, which operates a popular cloud-based ...
Samsung expects third-quarter operating profit to set three-year record
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today posted its preliminary earnings report for the third quarter, disclosing that operating profit jumped an estimated 28% year-over-year in the three months ended in September. The South Korean electronics giant believes that it generated an operating profit of about 15.8 trillion won or approximately $13.26 billion. The figure represents a ...
DOD completes key step in JWCC multicloud procurement program
The U.S. Defense Department has completed the market research phase of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, or JWCC, program, which aims to modernize the Pentagon’s information technology infrastructure. The development was reported on Thursday by Federal News Network. Danielle Metz, the DOD’s deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise, disclosed during an event earlier ...
Report: Apple developing iPhone-based platform for managing in-vehicle systems
Apple Inc. is developing a software platform that will enable users to adjust the settings of their cars’ in-vehicle systems via an iPhone, Bloomberg reported this morning. The platform is said to have been code-named “IronHeart” by the company’s engineers. IronHeart will complement Apple’s existing Car Play technology, which enables users to project apps from ...
Chronosphere raises $200M to continue growing its cloud-native observability platform
Chronosphere Inc., a startup helping enterprises analyze machine-generated data from their technology infrastructure, has closed $200 million in funding at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Announced this morning, the round was led by prominent tech investor General Atlantic. Addition, Greylock, Lux Capital and Founders Fund contributed as well. Chronosphere’s new unicorn status is particularly notable ...
Full-stack network observability startup Kentik nabs $40M funding round
Startup Kentik Inc. today announced that it has closed a $40 million Series C funding round led by Third Point Ventures to hire more engineers and speed up go-to-market initiatives. San Francisco-based Kentik provides software that helps information technology teams monitor their networks for issues. The startup enables administrators to detect cases when connections are ...
Muon Space raises $10M to build a climate-focused satellite constellation
Muon Space Inc., a new satellite startup that counts Google LLC as an early customer, today announced that it has raised $10 million in seed funding from a group of investors led by Costanoa Ventures. Mountain View, California-based Muon Space is looking to build satellites for studying climate change. The startup’s founding team includes former ...
Space company Satellogic expands AWS partnership as it scales up satellite network
Satellogic, a commercial satellite operator set to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. that will help support its growth efforts. Satellogic, incorporated as Nettar Group Inc., provides Earth imagery data to customers. The startup collects data using a network of 17 compact satellites ...
Former IBM Senior Vice President Robert Picciano joins CognitiveScale as CEO
Venture-backed artificial intelligence startup CognitiveScale Inc. today announced that Robert Picciano, a former IBM Corp. senior vice president, is joining as chief executive officer. Picciano headed IBM’s Cognitive Systems business unit until his departure from the company in 2020. The Cognitive Systems unit is responsible for, among other product lines, the Power Systems family of ...