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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Alphabet is building a salt-powered system for storing renewable energy
Alphabet Inc.’s latest moonshot project appears to be one of its most ambitious yet. Google Inc.’s parent company has revealed to Bloomberg that its secretive X research group is working on a project meant to tackle one of the biggest economic obstacles …