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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Domo launches Sandbox development and testing environment

Business intelligence platform provider Domo Inc. today announced a new product called Sandbox that offers a development and testing environment built on the Domo platform. Domo Sandbox is designed to help customers more easily create and promote content into production across the enterprise. The company says Sandbox adds to its growing list of enterprise-strength capabilities that help ...

Endpoint security startup Kolide raises $17M to fuel growth

Endpoint security startup Kolide Inc. announced today it has raised $17 million in new funding, led by OpenView Partners along with participation from previous investor Matrix Partners. Founded in 2016, Kolide offers an endpoint security and mobile device management platform that integrates with Slack Inc. The software-as-service platform enlists the help of employees directly to fix serious ...

New Salesforce Einstein Automate products help nontechnical customers

Salesforce Inc. today rolled out three new products to its Einstein Automate cloud offering that are designed to assist customers regardless of technical background. Previewed in December, Einstein Automate is designed to enable users to create workflows for automating tasks such as processing customer requests with little to no coding. The new products add low-code tools ...

Amazon adds ability to scan Word and PDF documents to AWS Comprehend

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 launches from stealth with $30M in funding

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 ...

Cowbell Cyber launches risk exchange to improve access to cybersecurity insurance

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 ...

Trilio announces new ransomware protection in its Kubernetes backup platform

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 raises $54M

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, ...

Former NSA employees fined for working at UAE hacking company

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 raises $200M on massive $40B valuation

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 ...