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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CommandK raises $3M to assist companies achieve higher security standards

Enterprises security startup CommandK Inc. today announced that it has raised $3 million in new funding to assist companies in achieving higher security standards with little to no change management at their end. Lightspeed Ventures Partners LLC led the round, with several angel investors also participating. Founded in 2022, CommandK is building tools that bridge ...

New OpenText release helps customers accelerate cloud-based digital transformation

Enterprise software provider OpenText Corp. today announced Cloud Editions 23.1, the latest technology innovation on its Project Titanium roadmap. The new release, pitched as the company’s next-generation cloud platform, is designed to assist customers in accelerating their cloud-based digital transformation and adopting future artificial intelligence-based applications. With CE 23.1, businesses can connect and collaborate seamlessly with ...

New Vulcan Cyber research team focuses on cyber risk mitigation and vulnerability remediation

Software security startup Vulcan Cyber Ltd. today announced the launch of the Voyager18, a new research team focused exclusively on cyber risk mitigation and vulnerability remediation intelligence. Extending on Vulcan Cyber’s ability to orchestrate risk mitigation across the entire vulnerability lifecycle, Voyager18 will provide vulnerability mitigation intelligence as a service to Vulcan Cyber customers and the cyber ...

Hum Capital ‘SmartRaise’ matches growth-stage companies with fast financing terms

Funding platform startup Hum Capital today announced the launch of SmartRaise, a service that provides growth-stage companies with quick financing terms based on the financial performance data they provide Hum. An expansion of the Intelligent Capital Market service provided by Hum, which is incorporated at Capital Technology Solutions Inc., SmartRaise gives founders the option to receive ...

Managed detection and response startup Deepwatch raises $180M

Managed detection and response firm Deepwatch Inc. today announced that it has raised $180 million in new funding to accelerate platform innovation and product development while expanding its partner ecosystem. The funding included new equity investments and strategic financing from Springcoast Capital Partners LLC, Splunk Ventures LLC and Vista Credit Partners LLC. Including the new funding, Deepwatch has ...

A hit and a miss: Amplitude delivers earnings beat but misses on outlook

Shares in behavior-tracking firm Amplitude Inc. were flat in after-hours trading today after the company delivered a quarterly earnings beat but predicted lower-than-expected revenue in the quarter and year ahead. For the fourth quarter that ended Dec. 31, Amplitude reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of three cents, a two-cent improvement over the same quarter ...

RingCentral shares drop on revenue miss and weak outlook

Shares in RingCentral Inc. dropped in late trading today after the cloud communications company missed on revenue and gave a lower-than-expected revenue outlook in its latest quarterly earnings report. For the fourth quarter that ended Dec. 31, RingCentral reported net income before costs such as stock compensation of $58.1 million, or 60 cents per share, ...

Companies investing more to protect against identity and authentication attacks

Identity platform provider Okta Inc. today released a report that reveals the security apps and tools companies are investing in to defend better against the rise in identity-based and multifactor authentication attacks. The Businesses at Work report uncovers how companies are strategizing their security investments to protect against ever-evolving threats. Key among the findings is that nearly one-third ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Oligo launches out of stealth with $28M in funding

Israeli cybersecurity startup Oligo Security today launched out of stealth mode and announced that it has raised $28 million for its runtime application security and observability solution. The funding was raised from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners L.P, Ballistic Ventures LLC, TLV Partners Management Ltd. and a several well-known cybersecurity professionals. Other investors include Eyal Waldman, founder and chief ...

Group-IB report details previously unknown Indian-sponsored SideWinder campaign

Cybersecurity services company Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd. has published details on previously unreported phishing operations carried out by the nation-state cyber threat actor SideWinder between June and November 2021. SideWinder, also known as Rattlesnake, Hardcore Nationalist (HN2) and T-APT4, is a state-sponsored hacking group believed to be affiliated with the Indian government. The group has been involved in ...