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Bizzabo lands $15M to help companies supercharge their business events
Software-as-a-service startup Bizzabo Inc. today announced that it has raised $15 million in funding to automate an essential but often overlooked aspect of companies’ marketing efforts: business conferences. According to Bizzabo, customer events, partner meetups and other live gatherings account for 24 percent of the average chief marketing officer’s annual budget. A lot of the ...
Through partnership with Komatsu, Nvidia will bring AI to construction sites
Construction sites can now be added to the growing list of industrial environments where artificial intelligence is being applied. Nvidia Corp. today revealed that it has entered a partnership with Tokyo-based Komatsu Ltd., one of the world’s largest heavy equipment manufacturers, to harness AI for improving worker safety in building projects. The collaboration will revolve ...
Upstream Security raises $9M to keep hackers out of your car
Research firm Gartner Inc. predicts that more than 250 million connected vehicles will roam the roads by 2020. Upstream Security Inc. is laying the groundwork to ensure that those vehicles and their owners won’t become an easy target for hackers, a mission backed by a group of high-profile investors. The startup today announced the completion ...
Simility raises $17.5M round led by Accel for its fraud-fighting AI
For a bank or a retailer that processes upwards of tens of thousands of transactions a day, spotting fraudulent activity can be tricky to say the least. Simility Inc. wants to help. The three-year-old fraud detection startup today announced that it has raised a $17.5 million funding round led by venture capital powerhouse Accel. The firm ...
HashiCorp looks to codify cloud infrastructure with Terraform Enterprise
HashiCorp Inc., the well-funded automation startup, today rolled out a product called Terraform Enterprise into general availability that promises to codify how companies manage their infrastructure. The launch follows an extensive beta program that saw more than 100 organizations pilot the software. Based on an open-source tool HashiCorp originally released in 2014, Terraform Enterprise can ...
Microsoft releases a development toolkit for quantum computers
Microsoft Corp.’s efforts to engage the developer community have taken a decidedly futuristic turn. The company this morning released a software bundle called the Quantum Development Kit that can be used to build applications for quantum computers. It might seem like a somewhat premature move, given that the quantum systems in existence today have limited processing power and ...
LiDAR startup Ouster comes out of stealth with $27M in funding
Ouster Inc., a San Francisco-based hardware startup backed by $27 million in funding, today launched from stealth mode to carve out a niche for itself in the crowded LiDAR market. LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is the method companies such as Alphabet Inc. use to help their autonomous vehicles navigate the roads. A ...
Alpin’s new cloud platform aims to solve ‘shadow IT’ problem
The accessibility of software-as-a-service products is a double-edged sword. One hand, the average cloud offering is much easier to manage than the on-premises alternative, but on the other, users often sign up for applications without approval from the information technology organization. Boulder, Colorado-based Alpin Inc. today launched a platform to combat this phenomenon, which can ...
AWS goes after the single sign-on market with free cloud service
In a low-key announcement on Thursday that only started making the rounds this morning, Amazon Web Services Inc. introduced a new service to take on Okta Inc. and other established single sign-on providers. The tool has a fairly straightforward value proposition. Organizations can use AWS SSO to let users access the different assets in their internal cloud environments with a single ...
Nvidia’s new Titan V chip targets desktop-based AI development
Nvidia Corp.’s new Titan V graphics processing unit shares little resemblance to the earlier gaming-oriented chips in the series. The GPU, which the company unveiled Thursday night, retails for $2,999 and is geared toward artificial intelligence applications. Unlike other Nvidia graphics cards optimized for AI, however, it’s designed to be used in desktops rather than servers. ...