Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Statement, a real-time cash flow intelligence platform, raises $12M

Cash intelligence startup Statement Ltd. said today it has closed on a $12 million seed funding round to coincide with the official launch of its liquidity management platform. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners and saw participation from Citi, Mensch Capital Partners, Titan Capital and Operator Partners. Statement has built what it says ...

Auquan raises $3.5M in seed funding to deliver AI-powered insights to the financial services industry

Auquan Ltd., a startup that offers an artificial intelligence-powered analytics engine for financial services companies, said today it has closed on a $3.5 million seed funding round. Today’s round, led by Neotribe Ventures and with participation from Episode 1 and Stage 2 Capital, comes alongside the official debut of the company’s flagship product, the Auquan ...

IBM Consulting to help companies get started with generative AI on AWS cloud

IBM Corp. said today its consulting division is partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc. to help customers deploy and operationalize generative artificial intelligence on its cloud computing infrastructure. In addition to helping customers deploy some very specific use cases of generative AI, IBM will integrate its watsonx.data platform with AWS. It has also committed to ...

SecureW2 raises $80M to help companies adopt passwordless approach to zero-trust security

Passwordless security startup SecureW2 Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $80 million funding round from the software-focused venture capital firm Insight Partners LLC. The funds will be used by the startup to accelerate its market expansion and the development of its security platform and hire new talent. SecureW2 has built a zero-trust ...

Nvidia and Foxconn to collaborate on AI data factories and smarter self-driving cars

Nvidia Corp. said today it’s expanding its ongoing collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence-powered electric vehicles and robotics platforms. As part of the collaboration, Foxconn plans to develop a new class of data centers it calls “AI factories” to power these and other new ...

Big-data startup dbt Labs rolls out data mesh architecture and enhances semantic layer

Big data platform startup dbt Labs Inc. said today it’s reinvigorating its flagship dbt Cloud offering with new enhancements and capabilities that it says will enable every employee to participate in data transformation. New innovations include dbt Explore, Cloud CLI and a revamped dbt Semantic Layer, plus the launch of the new dbt Mesh paradigm for ...

Arm unveils Total Design ecosystem for customized system-on-chip development

Arm Holdings Ltd. is building on the launch of its Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems earlier this year as today the British chip design firm announced a new ecosystem called Arm Total Design that will help companies building customized system-on-chip designs to access industry expertise and accelerate those efforts. When it unveiled Arm Neoverse CSS in the ...

Refuel.ai debuts a large language model to label the data needed to train other LLMs

Data labeling startup Refuel.ai Inc. today announced the launch of its Refuel Cloud platform, which uses a large language model that’s purpose-built to label datasets and get them ready for artificial intelligence training. Refuel.ai, which raised $5.2 million in seed funding in June, uses LLMs to generate high-quality training data for AI models. It might ...

Fast database ScyllaDB raises $43M as it throws down the gauntlet to rivals

Database upstart ScyllaDB Inc., said today it has closed on a $43 million round of funding as it looks to take on rivals such as MongoDB Inc. by providing an easier way for enterprises to scale their data workloads. Today’s round was co-led by Eight Roads Ventures and AB Private Credit Investors, and saw participation ...

Pantomath bags $14M in funding to expand its data observability platform

Data observability startup Pantomath Inc. said today it closed on a $14 million Series A round of funding in September. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Sierra Ventures and saw participation from Pantomath’s early backers Bowery Capital and Epic Ventures. All told, the startup has now raised $18 million since launching just 16 months ago. ...