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Open-source business intelligence startup Preset nabs $35.9M funding
Business intelligence software startup Preset Inc. today announced that it has raised $35.9 million in funding from existing backer Andreessen Horowitz and new investor Redpoint Ventures, which led the round. The round follows a $12.5 million Series A investment in 2019. Preset provides a paid cloud version of Apache Superset, an open-source business intelligence platform ...
T-Mobile says more than 48M people affected by data breach
T-Mobile US Inc. this morning said in a statement that information belonging to more than 48 million past, current and prospective customers was stolen in a breach of its systems. On Sunday, Motherboard reported that an online forum post offered to sell personal data about T-Mobile customers. The carrier in response launched an investigation and ...
Rapid Robotics raises $36.7M for its AI-powered industrial robots
Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global have led a $36.7 million funding round for Rapid Robotics Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence-powered robots aimed at the industrial sector. San Francisco-based Rapid Robotics announced the funding this morning. The startup says its technology is aimed at making it easier for manufacturers to introduce automation into their operations. ...
API startup Postman now valued at $5.6B thanks to new $225M round
Developer tooling startup Postman Inc. today said that it has closed a $225 million funding round led by Insight Partners at a $5.6 billion valuation. That’s up from a $2 billion valuation last June. The jump is a reflection of Postman’s rapid market expansion: The startup’s installed base has grown from 11 million users to ...
Microsoft invests in Rubrik at reported $4B valuation to expand partnership
Microsoft Corp. has bought a stake in data protection unicorn Rubrik Inc. as part of a new collaboration that will see them work together to help enterprises protect their systems against ransomware. The collaboration expands upon an existing, long-running partnership between the two companies. Rubrik didn’t disclose the size of Microsoft’s investment in its announcement ...
MOLOCO raises $150M to help companies run AI-driven mobile ad campaigns
Advertising technology startup MOLOCO Inc. today said that it has closed a $150 million funding round led by Tiger Global at a $1.5 billion valuation. The Redwood City, California-based startup disclosed on the occasion that it’s generating annual recurring revenues of more than $100 million. MOLOCO added that its top line has been “consistently” growing ...
Collaborative data analytics startup InfoSum raises $65M
Startup InfoSum Inc. today announced that it has raised $65 million in funding to broaden the adoption of its namesake software platform, which enables companies to launch joint data analytics projects with each other in a secure manner. The funding was provided by Chrysalis Investments, a publicly traded investment firm based in the U.K. InfoSum ...
US government launches investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced today that it has opened a probe into the Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system found in Tesla Inc. vehicles. Since 2018, the NHTSA has identified 11 crashes in which Tesla vehicles collided with stationary emergency vehicles. The crashes all occurred while the Autopilot system was active. “Most incidents took ...
Google and Facebook detail plans for new 190-terabit subsea internet cable
Google LLC and Facebook Inc. are participating in a project to build a new 7,450-mile subsea cable that will connect Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. The companies announced the project this morning. The cable is called Apricot and will be capable of transporting 190 terabits of data per second when it comes ...
Startup funding specialist Carta raises $500M at $7.4B valuation
Carta Inc., the operator of a cloud platform that helps startups manage the financial tasks involved in raising funding, has closed a $500 million investment led by Silver Lake. The investment values Carta at $7.4 billion, founder and Chief Executive Officer Henry Ward (pictured) wrote in an announcement today. That’s up from about $3.1 billion ...