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Immersive Labs nabs $75M to boost cybersecurity teams’ threat response skills
Immersive Labs Inc., a startup with a platform for training cybersecurity teams to fend off cyberattacks, has raised a $75 million funding round led by Insight Partners after doubling revenues over the last year. Menlo Ventures contributed as well, along with Citi Ventures and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Immersive Labs didn’t disclose a valuation in ...
Continuing acquisition spree, Accenture buys umlaut to boost industrial IoT business
Accenture PLC today announced that it’s acquiring umlaut SE, an engineering and technology firm active in areas such as the auto sector, to expand its industrial “internet of things” business. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. On its website, Germany-based umlaut says it has more than 4,000 employees and annual revenue exceeding ...
AI unicorn Dataiku takes its machine learning platform to the cloud
Dataiku Inc. today introduced a managed cloud edition of its artificial intelligence development platform that promises to reduce the amount of work involved in building custom machine learning models. New York-based Dataiku is backed by nearly $250 million in funding from investors including Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG venture capital arm. It achieved unicorn status in 2019 ...
Lawmakers introduce five antitrust bills to regulate tech giants
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers today debuted five bills aimed at reducing anticompetitive behavior by the tech industry’s biggest players across multiple areas, including e-commerce, mergers and acquisitions, and data interoperability. The introduction of the proposals follows a landmark antitrust investigation into the tech industry by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust. The panel ...
Nvidia acquires DeepMap as it builds out its end-to-end autonomous driving stack
Nvidia Corp. has inked a deal to acquire DeepMap Inc., a well-funded startup with mapping technology that helps autonomous vehicles navigate the road more reliably. Though the terms of the deal were not disclosed in the Thursday announcement, it’s safe to assume Nvidia is paying a fairly substantial sum for the startup. DeepMap has raised ...
Report reveals Trump Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for metadata of lawmakers
The U.S. Justice Department subpoenaed Apple Inc. to turn over metadata about at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, the New York Times has revealed. The record seizures took place under the Trump administration in 2017 and early 2018, the Times reported on Thursday. Prosecutors working under then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought the ...
Report: Intel has offered $2B+ to acquire chip startup SiFive
Intel Corp. is said to have made a more than $2 billion offer to buy SiFive Inc., a startup developing processor technology based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture. Bloomberg reported the acquisitions talks today, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter. The deal would represent one of Intel’s biggest acquisitions in recent memory ...
Cloud project management provider Monday.com closes up 15% after IPO raises $574M
Shares of Monday.com Ltd. rose more than 15% in their trading debut on the Nasdaq today, following an initial public offering that surpassed expectations and raised $574 million. The company is now worth nearly $8 billion. Israel-based Monday.com provides a popular project management platform of the same name that is used by employees at Adobe Inc., ...
Klarna boosts valuation to $45.6B with fresh $639M funding round
Confirming recent reports, financial technology startup Klarna Bank AB today announced that it has raised $639 million from a group of investors led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2. The round boosts the startup’s valuation from $31 billion in March to $45.6 billion. Including the new funding, Klarna has raised more than $2 billion ...
Kubernetes troubleshooting startup Komodor launches with $25M in funding
Startup Komodor Ltd., whose technology enables developers to fix issues in their companies’ software container environments faster, today launched from stealth mode and marked the milestone by revealing that it has closed a $25 million round of funding. The funding follows a wave of startup acquisitions in the Kubernetes tooling market. Accel led Komodor’s $25 ...