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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Capsule Security launches with $7M to secure AI agents at runtime

Israeli agentic artificial intelligence security startup Capsule Security Ltd. today launched with $7 million in new funding to expand go-to-market efforts and accelerate product development across its runtime platform. The company was founded in 2025 by Naor Paz, formerly of F5 Inc. and the Israeli military’s Unit 8200, and Lidan Hazout, formerly vice president of ...

Credo to acquire Israeli silicon photonics startup DustPhotonics for up to $1.3 billion

Fabless chip design company Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. today announced that it has reached a deal to acquire Israeli silicon photonics startup DustPhotonics Ltd. for up to $1.3 billion in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Credo will pay $750 million in cash and issue approximately $123 million in shares at ...

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber model for vetted security pros

OpenAI Group PBC today announced the launch of GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned variant of its GPT-5.4 model designed for defensive cybersecurity work and also announced a significant expansion of its Trusted Access for Cyber program to thousands of verified security professionals. The new model has been purpose-built to lower refusal boundaries for legitimate cybersecurity tasks, or ...

Prefix raises $7.5M to scale AI-driven facility management platform

Facility management startup Prefix Maintenance Inc. today announced that it has raised $7.5 million in new funding to support the development of its artificial intelligence infrastructure, boost sales and marketing efforts, and drive scalability to service more than 10,000 locations across the U.S. Founded in 2022, Prefix offers a facility management platform that is designed ...

Oligo Security moves beyond CVE prioritization with real-time application-layer exploit blocking

Runtime security startup Oligo Security Ltd. today unveiled Runtime Exploit Blocking, a new capability that stops exploit attempts at the application layer in real time without killing containers or processes or disrupting running applications. The new release is seeking to address a fundamental gap in how organizations approach application security. It comes at a time ...

Manifest platform from Manifold targets AI agent supply chain security gaps

Artificial intelligence detection and response platform startup Manifold Security Inc. today announced the launch of Manifest, a new supply chain intelligence platform that is designed to map and analyze how AI agent components interact with each other and with external systems. Manifest is focused on helping enterprises understand the dependencies behind agent behavior, including connections to external ...

FossID launches Agentic SCA to bring real-time compliance to AI-driven code development

Software supply chain solutions company FossID AB today announced the launch of Agentic SCA, a new technology layer for software composition analysts that allows for real-time compliance and intelligent, high-speed software audits. As generative AI tools increasingly write and modify code, software is being assembled faster than ever and often from fragmented sources with unclear ...

Helical raises $10M to bridge the gap between foundation models and drug discovery decisions

Pharma artificial intelligence startup Helical Ltd. announced today that it has raised $10 million in new funding to expand its virtual AI lab platform, which turns biological foundation models into reproducible in-silico drug discovery workflows. Founded in 2024, Helical was built around a specific gap its founders identified as biological foundation models have gained traction ...

Sectigo launches Private PQC to enable post-quantum certificate testing in existing workflows

Digital certificates and certificate lifecycle management firm Sectigo Ltd. today announced the launch of Private PQC, a new feature that allows enterprises to issue and manage private post-quantum cryptography SSL/TLS certificates using Sectigo Certificate Manager workflows for approvals, visibility, auditing, renewals and revocations. Offered as part of the Sectigo Certificate Manager, the new offering gives organizations a ...

German startup Synera lands $40M to automate engineering workflows with AI agents

German agentic artificial intelligence startup Synera GmbH today announced that it has raised $40 million in new funding to scale up its engineering automation platform and expand across the U.S., the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. Founded in 2018, Synera offers an agentic AI platform for industrial engineering teams that deploys AI agents that autonomously execute ...