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Amid profitability woes, Pandora raises $480 million from SiriusXM
Pandora Media Inc. suspended its long-running funding negotiations with KKR & Co. LP Thursday to review an outside proposal about a “substantial minority investment.” That bid today turned out to be a $480 million cash offer from Sirius XM Holdings Inc. that the music streaming provider has decided to accept. The investment will buy SiriusXM a ...
Shippable takes its software automation platform behind the firewall
Enterprises increasingly rely on the cloud to support operations, but many prefer to keep software projects on-premises because of security concerns. Shippable Inc. is moving to target this segment today with a new version of its development automation platform designed to run behind the firewall. Shippable Server provides the ability to manage the different systems ...
Security device maker Yubico closes $30M round backed by NEA
Two-factor authentication is one of the most reliable ways to protect user accounts from hacking, but it can often be difficult to implement for large companies with specialized security needs. Yubico AB, one of the startups working to ease the task, today secured $30 million in funding. The capital comes courtesy of New Enterprise Associates, Valley ...
Bosch teams up with TomTom to create radar maps for self-driving cars
Besides car parts and other industrial gear, manufacturing titan Robert Bosch GmbH now wants to start producing maps too. The German company, which is a key supplier to many leading automakers, has teamed up with TomTom NV in a newly announced partnership focused on providing road data for autonomous vehicles. The plan is to create a ...
Scout RFP raises $15.5M to change how firms engage suppliers
Finding suppliers for a project can be tremendously difficult in a large enterprise, where the expectations of the different stakeholders must be balanced with numerous budgetary and compliance restrictions. It’s a challenge that Scout RFP Inc. has spent the last four years working to ease. The San Francisco-based startup is backed by $15.5 million in newly ...
Minerva, a startup fighting evasive malware, closes $7.5M round
As companies adopt new and increasingly sophisticated security tools to protect their infrastructure, hackers are changing tactics to gain the upper hand. One of the most alarming trends in the so-called black-hat world is the use of camouflage methods to mask malicious files’ purpose, a threat that Minerva Labs Ltd. is working to tackle. The ...
Veritas debuts new tools to aid the multicloud model
Spreading a firm’s workloads across multiple public clouds with the help of the best services from each can provide major operational benefits. But in practice, there are numerous technical barriers that stand in the way of organizations adopting such a model. Veritas Technologies LLC hopes to lower the barrier with three new tools announced today. Each is ...
Clustree secures $7.9M to harness machine learning for recruiting
Many of the startups working to commercialize artificial intelligence nowadays have chosen recruiting as the area where they wish to make their mark. Among them is Paris-based Clustree SA, which today said it has raised $7.9 million from local funds Idinvest Partners and Alven Capital to help it stand out from the pack. The startup ...
DigitalOcean adds firewall service to target serious workloads
DigitalOcean Inc. is pursuing an aggressive development roadmap to counter the competition from Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and the other bigger players in the cloud market. The provider passed another milestone today after launching a native firewall for its infrastructure as a service platform. It’s designed to reduce the amount of effort involved in securing ...
Newly public Alteryx buys Y Combinator-backed Yhat to speed data science projects
Three months after going public in a $126 million offering, analytics powerhouse Alteryx Inc. is putting some of that money to use. At a user event in Las Vegas today, the company announced that it has acquired Yhat Inc., a Y Combinator-backed startup that sells tools for data scientists. The three products that make up ...