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To say that The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s relationship with Nutanix Inc is special would be an understatement. It bought a stake in the hyperconverged infrastructure startup three years ago, went on to be named as the chief underwriter for its upcoming …
Judge rules Dell privatization deal underpaid investors
Three years ago, Michael Dell took his namesake firm off the stock market after successfully convincing a requisite majority of shareholders to accept a $24 billion privatization offer. But the executive and his allies at Silver Lake Partners didn’t have as much …
Secretive chip start Innovium raises $50M in pre-launch funding
In today’s challenging venture capital environment, having a leadership team with a proven track record can go a long way towards helping a startup raise funding. The latest testament to this fact comes from Innovium Inc., which today revealed that it has …
What you missed in Big Data: Twitter and Intel take over the agenda
Last week’s biggest analytics-related news came not from the traditional data management vendors that usually dominate the agenda, but rather the web-scale crowd. Twitter Inc. led the charge by publishing the code for Heron, a homegrown stream processing framework that its engineers …
What you missed in Cloud: Dollars and Docker containers
The cloud ecosystem marked a major milestone last week after Twilio Inc. became the first software-as-a-service provider to file for a public offering since the start of the year. The move sends an encouraging signal to other tech firms that are also …
YC graduate Front gets $10M to bring email back in vogue
Gmail and Outlook have lost a lot ground to real-time messaging services like Slack in recent years, but workers still perform much of their communications via email, and Front Inc. is intent on keeping it that way. The YC-backed startup this week …
In sign of improving IPO market, Twilio files to go public
Two weeks after the technology industry’s second public offering of the year, a third is already in the pipe. Twilio Inc. this morning reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it’s planning to hit the stock market under the symbol …
Intel Capital calls off $1BN portfolio sale
Since joining the venture capital game in 1991, Intel has backed more than 1,400 startups across 57 countries and an even bigger number of segments, from software-as-a-service to healthcare automation. And according to a new blog post from the head of its …
SDN buzz: Viptela raises $75M on $875M valuation
Raising $75 million would constitute a major feat for a four-year-old startup even under normal circumstances, but Viptela Inc. has managed to do so amid a historic slump in venture capital activity. The round was led by Redline Capital Management, which had …
Agari raises $22M to protect companies from phishing
More and more organizations are training their employees to identify fraudulent emails, but judging by the 270 percent increase in phishing incidents that the FBI has recorded since 2015, the effort isn’t nearly as effective as it could be. So CSOs are …