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Former Wall Street executives raise $125M for new security startup
It’s not every day that a startup closes a nine-figure investment before even launching its website. Such is the appeal of cybersecurity startups today. BlueteamGlobal Inc., a newly established cybersecurity provider headed by veterans of the financial industry, hit the scene on Thursday with a hefty $125 million in funding. The startup stated in a ...
Heptio debuts two open-source tools for protecting Kubernetes clusters
Heptio Inc. exited stealth mode late last year with $8.5 million in funding to commercialize Kubernetes, the popular open-source framework for managing software containers. Ten months later, the startup is making two major contributions that could go a long way towards widening the project’s enterprise appeal. The first is Sonobuoy, a monitoring tool for checking that ...
Contract automation startup Ironclad raises $8M round led by Accel
While other parts of the enterprise are becoming increasingly automated, many legal departments still handle the administrative work involved in day-to-day operations manually. Ironclad Inc. is working to change that one contract at a time. The San Francisco-based startup’s efforts are supported by a newly closed $8 million funding round that was led by venture ...
Mozilla pilots three new Firefox tools, including an encrypted file-sharing service
Earlier this year, the Mozilla Foundation shut down its connected devices group as part of a move to shift resources from building commercial products to research and development. The latest fruits of the initiative are three experimental features for Firefox that became available on Tuesday. The first is a cloud-connected file sharing service called Send. ...
Branch Messenger’s bot-enabled shift work app attracts $6.8M investment
Managing staff schedules can be a hassle for retailers and other companies that rely heavily on hourly workers. According to Minneapolis-based Branch Messenger Inc., one way to ease the burden is by giving employees a direct say in when and where they take on shifts. The startup is putting the concept into practice with a self-service ...
Botmetric raises $3M to take on the cloud management market
As companies continue moving workloads to the cloud, the demand for tools that can ease the management of infrastructure as a service environments is rising in lockstep. One of the newest players is Botmetric LLC, which today said it has secured a $3 million funding round led by early-stage fund Blume Venture Associates. The startup has a ...
Crimson Hexagon’s newest tool applies computer vision to social media
Enterprise marketing teams rely heavily on social media to assess consumer sentiment, but the monitoring tools used for the task typically only track the part of the conversation that is communicated in written form. As a result, they overlook a major source of insight: the more than 3 billion photos that are posted on a daily ...
LogMeIn buys chatbot startup Nanorep for $45M to automate customer support
LogMeIn Inc. is the latest enterprise tech firm to jump on the chatbot bandwagon. The publicly traded remote access provider today announced that it’s acquiring Israeli virtual assistant maker Nanorep Technologies Ltd. for $45 million. LogMeIn will pay out up to $5 million more over the next two years if certain business goals are met. It’s ...
Microsoft veterans raise $10.8M to take on IFTTT and Flow
A few years before Microsoft Corp. jumped into workflow automation with Flow, a group of company veterans led by former software architect Nikhil Hasija banded together to pursue their own vision for addressing this market. Their startup, Azuqua Inc., today said it has raised $10.8 million from a consortium led by Insight Venture Partners. The ...
NEA leads $20M funding of AI-powered authentication startup UnifyID
So-called implicit authentication that relies on a user’s behavior rather than manual verification methods to confirm their identity is becoming increasingly viable, and venture capitalists are taking notice. UnifyID Inc., one of the startups pioneering the approach, has today said it has closed a $20 million financing round led by New Enterprise Associates. The investment ...