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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Reco raises $30M to lock down AI apps and autonomous agents

Software-as-a-service security company Recolabs Inc. today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding to support its continued expansion, including significant hiring across engineering, product and go-to-market teams with a focus on discovering and securing AI apps and agents at scale. Founded in 2020, Reco focuses on making AI tools, copilots and autonomous ...

Newo lands $25M to bring production-ready AI receptionists to small businesses

Artificial intelligence voice infrastructure startup Newo Inc. announced today that it has raised $25 million in new funding to accelerate product development, expand its partner ecosystem, scale up go-to-market efforts, and expand its AI voice capabilities across additional industries and use cases. Founded in 2023, Newo offers human-like AI voice and text agents that are ...

Backslash Security lands $19M to tackle security risks emerging from vibe coding

Vibe coding security company Backslash Security Inc. revealed today that it has raised $19 million in new funding to expand its research and development talent and operations, deepen platform capabilities and scale up its go-to-market presence in the U.S. and Europe. Founded in 2022, Backslash focuses on protecting what it describes as the emerging vibe ...

EC-Council launches Enterprise AI Credential Suite to close workforce readiness gap

Cybersecurity certification, education, training and services company EC-Council today announced the launch of its Enterprise AI Credential Suite that introduces four new role-based artificial intelligence certifications and also updated its Certified CISO v4 program. The launch of Enterprise AI Credential Suite is the largest single expansion of EC-Council’s portfolio in its 25-year history and is designed to address ...

Phenom strengthens AI hiring platform with Be Applied acquisition

Artificial intelligence-based human resources company Phenom People Inc. announced today that it has acquired Be Applied Ltd., an AI-driven cognitive assessment solution provider that validates candidate and employee capabilities at scale, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016, Be Applied offers skills-based assessment solutions for hiring and talent evaluation with a platform that uses adaptive, evidence-based cognitive ...

Dono raises $6.5M seed round to modernize property records with AI

Dono.AI Inc. announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in new funding to accelerate its expansion of its property records platform, deepen automation in its property-records infrastructure, and support growing demand from title insurers, lenders, mortgage servicers and real estate investment firms. Founded in 2023, Dono offers modern, artificial intelligence-powered infrastructure for property records, ...

Physical AI startup Gather AI raises $40M to expand warehouse intelligence

Gather AI Inc., a startup offering physical artificial intelligence for logistics inside warehouses, today announced that it has raised $40 million in new funding to expand to hundreds of additional facilities globally and support the development of predictive capabilities for proactive inventory management. Founded in 2017, Gather AI offers physical AI — AI that learns from ...

Tens of thousands of OpenClaw systems exposed by misconfigurations and known exploits

A new report out today from security rating firm SecurityScorecard Inc. warns that widespread vulnerabilities in OpenClaw deployments have left tens of thousands of internet-facing instances exposed to takeover through misconfigured access controls and known exploits. OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, is an agentic artificial intelligence framework designed to run continuously and act on behalf ...

Portal26 targets weak enterprise AI returns with new Value Realization platform

Generative artificial intelligence security startup Portal26 Inc. today announced a new AI Value Realization solution aimed at helping enterprises close the widening gap between heavy generative AI investment and weak returns. The AI Value Realization module has been designed to address what the company calls one of the biggest unanswered challenges in enterprise AI today: ...

Zscaler snaps up SquareX to strengthen browser security without enterprise browsers

Cloud security company Zscaler Inc. announced today that it has acquired browser security company SquareX Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2023, SquareX protects users from browser-based threats such as phishing and session hijacking with technology that focuses on securing the browser itself. SquareX’s Browser Detection and Response technology is designed to detect and stop threats as they occur ...