Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Parloa raises $120M at $1B valuation to expand enterprise AI agent platform

Agentic artificial intelligence for customer experience startup Parloa GmbH announced today that it has raised $120 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to accelerate its expansion across North America and Europe, enhance its Agent Management Platform and hire international talent. Founded in 2018, Parloa offers the AI Agent Management Platform, a platform ...

Qualys beats Q1 estimates with double-digit revenue growth and higher earnings

Shares in Qualys Inc. rose more than 4% in late trading today after the cybersecurity software provider reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2025 first quarter and gave revenue guidance ahead of expectations. For the quarter ended March 31, Qualys reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.67, up from $1.45 per share in ...

Safe Software adds data virtualization and augmented reality to FME Platform to boost enterprise integration

Data integration company Safe Software Inc. today announced two major additions to its FME Platform that are aimed at bringing easier data access and spatial intelligence to the forefront of enterprise operations. Announced at the company’s Peak of Data and AI 2025 conference in Seattle, the new features, FME Data Virtualization and FME Realize, mark ...

BrowserStack acquires Requestly to expand developer testing capabilities

Web and mobile testing company BrowserStack Inc. today announced that it has acquired Requestly, a startup that offers an open-source HTTP interception and application programming interface mocking tool that eliminates critical bottlenecks in modern web development, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2021, Requestly offers an open-source tool designed to streamline API development and testing by allowing ...

Tesseral launches with $3.3M to simplify B2B authentication for software developers

Tesseral, a startup offering open-source authentication infrastructure for business-to-business software firms, today launched with an announcement that it has raised $3.3 million in funding to position itself as a fast, secure alternative to in-house auth solutions. The company debuts with an open-source authentication platform designed specifically for B2B software-as-a-service applications. The platform provides developers with ...

Coralogix adds ‘Continuous Profiling’ for low-impact real-time performance monitoring

Observability platform company Coralogix Ltd. today announced the launch of “Continuous Profiling,” a new capability that delivers real-time visibility into application performance without any code changes or production impact. The new capability seeks to address the limitations of traditional code profiling tools, which often introduce performance overhead and require intrusive changes to application code. Coralogix argues that ...

Palantir shares dip despite Q1 revenue beat and raised full-year outlook

Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. fell more than 8% in after-hours trading today, despite the big data analytics company beating expectations on revenue and guidance, as investors may have been anticipating even stronger results. For its fiscal 2025 first quarter ended March 31, Palantir reported adjusted earnings per share of 13 cents, up from eight ...

RightRev lands $13M to meet growing demand for intelligent revenue recognition

Automated revenue management startup RightRev today announced that it has raised $13 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation, go-to-market expansion and partner ecosystem growth as the company scales up to meet what it says is surging demand for revenue automation. Founded in 2020, RightRev offers a revenue recognition automation platform designed to help businesses comply ...

Trump administration proposes $491M cut to CISA in 2026 budget plan

The Trump Administration has proposed a $491 million funding cut to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency for 2026, citing the need to refocus CISA on its core mission. The proposed budget cut was one of many that were detailed in a letter Friday to Susan Collins, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, from ...

FutureHouse Platform brings super-intelligent AI research tools to scientists via web and API

FutureHouse, a nonprofit backed by former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt that’s building artificial intelligence agents for scientific research, today announced the launch of FutureHouse Platform, a web-based and application programming interface-accessible suite of super-intelligent AI agents designed to accelerate scientific discovery. The FutureHouse Platform has been designed to handle the overwhelming volume of ...