Amazon Web Services Inc. today added new features on its Amazon Comprehend service that can extract custom details from documents in their native format. The new features include the ability to extract personally identifiable information, entity extraction, document classification and sentiment analysis. The added features are said to help users find insights within unconstructed documents ...

Privacy and data governance startup Relyance AI Inc. today launched out of stealth mode with $30 million in new funding. Unusual Ventures and Menlo Ventures led the Series A round, while John Vrionis, co-founder and managing partner of Unusual Ventures, led the company’s seed round. Relyance AI pitches itself as the first privacy and data ...

Artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. has launched a risk exchange marketplace called Cowbell Rx with an aim of making it easier for companies to obtain that insurance. In an age where cyberattacks continue to increase, the need for companies to have access to cyber insurance is an issue that has been discussed ...

Cloud-native data protection firm Trilio Data Inc. today announced the release of a new version of TrilioVault for Kubernetes. The new release offers a comprehensive approach to ransomware protection and recoverability in alignment with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework and support of zero trust architectures. Kubernetes orchestrates the use of software containers that ...

Infrastructure access platform startup strongDM Inc. announced today that it has raised $54 million in new funding to build on its vision to deliver secure infrastructure access for every environment and enterprise. Tiger Global led the Series B round. Other investors included GV, Sequoia Capital, True Ventures, HearstLab, Bloomberg Beta and Godfrey Sullivan. Founded in 2015, ...

Three former U.S. National Security Agency employees have been fined after they were found to have worked in the United Arab Emirates for a company that spied on and hacked political dissidents and others. The three men, Marc Baier, Ryan Adams and Daniel Gericke, allegedly worked for DarkMatter, an Abu Dhabi-based cybersecurity firm run by ...

Australian graphic design tool startup Canva Pty. Ltd. today announced $200 million in new funding to accelerate growth, including doubling its workforce in the next year. The round was raised on a valuation of $40 billion, making it one of the highest-valued startups in the world. T. Rowe Price led the funding round. Other investors included Franklin Templeton, Sequoia ...

Artificial intelligence-driven application programming interface security startup Neosec launched out of stealth mode today with an announcement that it has raised $20.7 million in new funding. The Series A round included True Ventures, New Era Capital Partners, TLV, SixThirty and individuals such as Mark Anderson, Gary Fish, Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar. Co-founded in 2020 by Ziv ...

Messaging and streaming platform startup StreamNative today announced it has raised $23 million in new funding to advance its stream storage and messaging technologies. Prosperity7 led the Series A round. Sequoia Capital also participated. StreamNative was founded in 2019 by the original developers of Apache Pulsar. The funding is said to underscore a market shift from legacy messaging ...

DataSecOps startup Satori Cyber Ltd. announced today it has raised $20 million in new funding for research and development and go-to-market expansion in the U.S. B Capital Group and Evolution Equity Partners co-led the Series A round. YL Ventures also participated. Founded in 2019, Satori pitches itself as the first DataSecOps platform to democratize data and scale ...