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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Syncro Cloud Backup targets rising risks in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID

Managed service provider and information technology management platform company Syncro today launched Syncro Cloud Backup, an integrated backup and restore solution for Microsoft 365 and Entra ID. The new offering builds on Syncro’s extended monitoring and management’s automated configuration, security baseline management and compliance monitoring. The aim is to help MSPs and IT teams protect ...

CoreStory launches AI-powered code intelligence platform to modernize legacy software

Code intelligence platform startup CoreStory launched today with an artificial intelligence-powered platform that turns legacy code into a strategic asset for continuous innovation. The company is seeking to address what they called the “aging legacy application and system problem,” whereby enterprises are modernizing, managing and maintaining aging legacy software systems to adapt to digital, cloud-based ...

Ray Security launches with $11M funding to advance predictive data security

Israeli predictive data security platform startup Ray Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $11 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market efforts in the U.S. Founded in 2024, Ray Security has built what it calls the first predictive data security platform. The platform allows enterprises to protect ...

Fraud prevention firm SEON raises $80M to scale AI-driven compliance platform

Fraud prevention and anti-money-laundering compliance company SEON Technologies Kft. announced today that it has raised $80 million in new funding to scale its platform, fuel global expansion and enhance its real-time detection capabilities. SEON was founded in 2017 by Tamas Kadar and Bence Jendruszák after the pair had struggled with preventing fraud and money laundering ...

Hack The Box acquires LetsDefend to expand ‘blue team’ training ecosystem

Cybersecurity training company Hack The Box Ltd. announced today that it has acquired LetsDefend Inc., a provider of a blue team training platform, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2021, LetsDefend offers an interactive cybersecurity training platform that focuses on “blue team” skills development. A blue team is responsible for defending organizations against cyberattacks by ...

Remedio raises $65M in first funding round to fuel expansion and AI innovation

Cybersecurity company Remedio today announced that it has raised $65 million in its first-ever funding round to expand internationally, strengthen its U.S. presence and accelerate development of artificial intelligence-driven security management solutions. Founded in 2019, Remedio is a cybersecurity company that focuses on an often overlooked problem in enterprise security: misconfigurations. The company’s platform gives organizations ...

SecurityScorecard acquires HyperComply to boost AI-driven compliance automation

Security ratings firm SecurityScorecard Inc. today disclosed that it recently acquired HyperComply Inc., a Canadian startup that offers an artificial intelligence-powered platform for security questionnaire automation and compliance management, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2019, HyperComply offers a platform that helps both sales and security teams respond to security questionnaires. The system combines machine learning and ...

Rubrik expands CrowdStrike partnership to strengthen identity resilience

Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. with the integration of Rubrik Identity Resilience into the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform. The new integration is designed to advance identity security by allowing customers to roll back malicious identity changes surgically and restore identity ...

Pascal AI raises $3.1M to scale autonomous investment research workflows

Agentic investment research workflows startup Pascal AI Labs Pvt. Ltd. today announced that it has raised $3.1 million in funding to accelerate product development of its autonomous investment workflows, expand into the U.S. and ink strategic data partnerships. Founded in 2024, Pascal AI offers a vertical artificial intelligence platform purpose-built for the investment management industry ...

Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries, claims abuse of search monopoly

Penske Media Corp., the company behind media brands such as Rolling Stone and the Hollywood Reporter, has filed a lawsuit against Google LLC claiming that Google is abusing its monopoly in general search to coerce publishers into handing over their content for free in ways that bolster Google’s own artificial intelligence products. The case is ...