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Slack-integrated employee wellness platform Kona raises $4M
Techstars-backed employee experience platform provider Kona has raised $4 million in seed funding to boost its mission of helping companies boost the mental health of employees working remotely. Today’s round in the company, officially known as Sike Insights Inc., was led by Unusual Ventures and included participation from Evolutionary Ventures, 2.12 Angels, Louis Beryl, David Carrico, ...
Latest Nvidia Enterprise AI release extends support for data science pipelines and low-code training
Nvidia Corp. today rolled out a major update to its AI Enterprise software suite, with version 2.1 adding support for key tools and frameworks that companies can use to run artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Launched in August last year, Nvidia AI Enterprise is an end-to-end AI software suite that bundles various AI and ...
F5 Networks delivers strong earnings and its stock rises
Shares of F5 Networks Inc. rose in extended trading today after the company reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that easily topped Wall Street’s expectations. The Seattle-based network traffic management and application security firm reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.57 per share. That meant it generated net income of $83 ...
IQM raises $128M to build quantum computers aimed at fixing the climate crisis
IQM Finland Oy believes it can use the power of advanced quantum computers to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems, such as climate change, after raising $128 million in a new early-stage round of funding. The company said today’s Series A2 round was led by the World Fund and includes part of a ...
Carbon accounting startup Normative raises $31M to help companies go green
Swedish startup Normative AB announced today it has raised $31 million in a new round of funding to build out its carbon accounting platform. Today’s Series B round was led by Blume Equity and included the participation of new investor Horizons Ventures, plus existing investors Future Five, ETF Partners and 2150. The raise comes just ...
U.S. investigates claims Huawei is spying on military communications
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is being actively investigated by the U.S. Department of Commerce over fears that it could be using equipment installed on cell towers to spy on nearby military bases and missile silos. The concern is that Huawei could somehow use this equipment to capture sensitive information about the U.S. military’s activities ...
Google Cloud is coming to Mexico with new region
Google Cloud today announced plans to open a new cloud infrastructure region in Mexico. When the region goes online, it will become the company’s third in Latin America, alongside Santiago in Chile and Sao Paulo in Brazil, joining the 34 it operates globally. Google Cloud’s regions are specific geographic locations where it provides the infrastructure ...
15Five gets $52M in funding to grow its continuous performance management platform
The self-styled continuous performance management startup 15Five Inc. said today it has landed $52 million in a new round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to $94.1 million. Today’s Series C round was led by Quad Partners and saw the participation of a string of existing investors, including Next47, Origin Ventures, Matrix ...
Clarifai’s new community service aims to promote AI sharing and collaboration
The unstructured data-focused artificial intelligence startup Clarifai Inc. said today it’s launching Clarifai Community, a free service aimed at promoting collaboration and sharing in AI. Clarifai is a well-funded startup that has hit upon the somewhat novel idea of helping companies use massive volumes of unstructured and unlabeled data to train AI models. The company ...
Despite strong revenue growth, Qualtrics posts an unexpected loss and its stock dives
Experience management software firm Qualtrics International Inc. saw its stock fall in extended trading today after reporting a second-quarter loss that came below expectations. The company reported a net loss of $279.2 million for the quarter, resulting in a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of four cents per share. Revenue jumped by ...