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DNA-based data storage startup Catalog raises $35M in funding
Catalog Technologies Inc., a Boston-based startup looking to use synthetic DNA to store digital data, has closed a $35 million funding round to support its research efforts. The funding, led by Hanwha Impact and announced today, will go toward improving the capabilities of Catalog’s DNA-based data storage platform. The startup is hoping to make the ...
Kore.ai raises $50M for its AI-powered experience optimization platform
Startup Kore.ai Inc. today announced that it has raised a $50 million funding round led by Vistara Growth and PNC to fuel the growth of its software platform, which helps companies build artificial intelligence assistants to automate repetitive business tasks. Kore.ai also disclosed that it has secured a $20 million credit line from Sterling National ...
DeepMind develops AI that can forecast the weather
DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research arm of Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc., today detailed a new project that seeks to harness machine learning to generate better weather forecasts. The project is a collaboration between DeepMind and the Met Office, the U.K.’s national weather service. The researchers involved in the initiative developed an AI system capable ...
Akamai inks $600M deal to acquire microsegmentation startup Guardicore
Akamai Technologies Inc. today said that it has inked a $600 million deal to acquire Guardicore Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based startup with a microsegmentation platform for securing corporate networks. Microsegmentation is a popular approach to limiting the impact of cyberattacks. Often, data breaches begin with a single compromised application. Hackers use the compromised application to ...
Clumio brings its backup-as-a-service technology to Amazon S3 storage
Well-funded data protection startup Clumio Inc. today debuted a new solution, Clumio Protect for Amazon S3, that it says can help companies mitigate ransomware attacks targeting records they keep in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 storage service. S3 is one of the most popular services in the entire public cloud ecosystem. Some companies use S3 ...
Cyber insurance startup Coalition valued at $3.5B+ in latest $205M funding round
Coalition Inc., a cybersecurity insurance provider that also supplies its customers with breach prevention software, is now worth more than $3.5 billion after raising a funding round led by Durable Capital, T. Rowe Price and Whale Rock Capital. Coalition announced the investment this morning. The startup says it plans to use the funding to launch ...
Amazon debuts Astro robot assistant and adds more smart home devices
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a flurry of additions to its portfolio of smart home devices, including a robot called Astro that can transport items between rooms and perform numerous other tasks. Astro is joined by a smart thermostat that automatically adjusts indoor temperature according to the user’s preferences. Amazon is refreshing several existing product lineups ...
Cloudflare targets the cloud object storage market with new R2 service
Cloudflare Inc. today previewed Cloudflare R2 Storage, an upcoming object storage service that the company says will offer lower pricing than existing offerings from the major cloud operators. R2 advances Cloudflare’s ongoing effort to expand into more parts of the enterprise technology market. As part of the initiative, the company has also been growing its ...
New IBM and Linux Foundation toolkit makes AI projects more organized
IBM Corp. has teamed up with the The LF AI & Data Foundation, an open-source group operating as part of the Linux Foundation, to launch a new toolkit for managing enterprise machine learning projects. The toolkit is called the Machine Learning eXchange and made its debut today under an open-source license. According to IBM, the ...
HPE expands GreenLake portfolio with new data protection and analytics services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today expanded its GreenLake product portfolio, a core pillar of the company’s revenue growth strategy, with a set of new cloud-based data protection and analytics services. The GreenLake portfolio includes data center hardware products that enterprises can buy on a pay-as-you-go basis instead of purchasing everything upfront. GreenLake also features a ...