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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Israeli cybersecurity startup Seal Security raises $7.4M to expand operations

Israeli cybersecurity startup Seal Cybersecurity Solutions Inc. today said it has raised $7.4 million in seed funding to expand operations and development efforts. Founded by former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit, Seal Security leverages large language models to create an automated pipeline that increases patching capacity. The company’s service provides access to security patches ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and investor Lachy Groom lead $35M round for Meter

Meter Inc., a startup providing internet infrastructure to businesses, today said it has raised $35 million in new funding in a round led by OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman and early Stripe employee and notable investor Lachy Groom to propel growth and development across the company. Founded in 2015, Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses, ...

FoundationDB team’s new venture, Antithesis, raises $47M to enhance software testing

Software testing startup Antithesis Operations LLC today announced that it has raised $47 million in new funding to develop its software testing and debugging platform further and accelerate its go-to-market strategy. Founded in 2018 by the team behind FoundationDB, a distributed database acquired by Apple in 2015 that now underpins Apple’s cloud infrastructure, the idea ...

Cyberhaven launches ‘Linea AI’ to enhance data security against insider risks

Data detection and response platform provider Cyberhaven Inc. today launched “Linea AI,” a new artificial intelligence platform designed to combat critical insider risks in corporate data. Built to match the collective intelligence of security analysts, Linea AI applies human-like insight across workflows to understand an organization’s data. It assesses when the data is at risk and what’s ...

Akto unveils ‘GenAI Security Testing’ to enhance AI and LLM security

Application programming interface company Akto Io Inc. today announced the launch of GenAI Security Testing, a new solution aimed at enhancing the security of generative artificial intelligence and large language models. Claimed to be the world’s first proactive generative AI security testing platform, the new service has been designed to address growing concerns around the vulnerabilities ...

ReversingLabs launches Spectra Assure for enhanced software supply chain security

Software supply chain security startup ReversingLabs Inc. today announced the release of Spectra Assure, a new supply chain security solution powered by artificial intelligence-driven complex binary analysis to uncover material risk. Complex binary analysis is a cybersecurity technique used to scrutinize compiled, executable software versions to detect malware, vulnerabilities and unauthorized modifications without needing access to the ...

New Legit Security AI discovery capabilities help safeguard software development

Application security posture management platform startup Legit Security Ltd. today announced the launch of new artificial intelligence discovery capabilities within its application security posture management platform. Claimed to be an industry first, the new AI discovery capabilities are designed to enable secure application delivery by providing visibility into the use of AI and large language models in ...

New AI-powered program from Alcion helps MSPs with Microsoft 365 backup modernization

Data management startup Alcion Inc. today launched Alcion for Partners, a new artificial intelligence-powered partner program for managed service providers that allows them to modernize their Microsoft 365 backup offerings. The new program has been designed to accelerate and modernize MSPs’ Microsoft 365 backup business while reducing management and procurement toil. The program does so by providing ...

Bugcrowd secures $102M in funding to enhance crowdsourced cybersecurity platform

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform startup Bugcrowd Inc. today announced it has raised $102 million in new funding to accelerate growth and consider strategic mergers and acquisitions. Founded in 2012, Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Bugcrowd’s main offering is a bug bounty program that enables its clients to pay security ...

Mixed fortunes in cyber: Cloudflare soars, Dynatrace dips and CyberArk rises in latest earnings

It was a tale of different outcomes today from leading cybersecurity and content delivery network providers, with Cloudlare Inc. shares surging over 20% after hours, Dynatrace Inc. shares falling 8% in regular trading and CyberArk Software Ltd. shares closing up 8%. For the quarter that ended Dec. 31, Cloudflare reported adjusted net income of 15 ...