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Utilidata Inc., a company that makes software for smart electricity meters and other energy industry applications, said today it’s working with Nvidia Corp. to develop a highly customized “smart grid chip.” The plan is to embed the new chip into smart meters …
DataRobot Core helps data scientists deliver more sophisticated machine learning models faster
DataRobot Inc. is updating its suite of artificial intelligence tools with a new offering called DataRobot Core that’s aimed at data science experts. The ecompany also announced a new version of its AI Cloud platform that adds more sophisticated analytical capabilities and …
Unified business communications provider Dialpad raises $170M in funding
Business communications service provider Dialpad Inc. is ending 2021 on a high, raising $170 million in funding at a $2.2 billion valuation. ICONIQ Capital led today’s round, which also saw participation from Amasia, GV, OMERS Growth Equity, Work-Bench, Section 32 and T-Mobile …
Distributed database startup Cockroach Labs raises $278M in late-stage funding round
Super-resilient database provider Cockroach Labs Inc. says it’s now worth $5 billion after closing on a bumper $278 million late-stage funding round today led by Greenoaks. Altimeter, BOND, Benchmark, Coatue, FirstMark, GV, Index Ventures, Lone Pine Capital, Redpoint, and Tiger Global also …
IoT platform Samsara raises $805M in IPO and shares rise 7%, valuing it at $12B+
Updated: Samsara Inc., a connected operations cloud platform provider for “internet of things” data, raised $805 million through an initial public offering of shares today ahead of its debut on the market. The company, whose IPO is likely the last big one …
Cyber insurance firm Cowbell Cyber boosts security for Microsoft customers
Cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. has announced the Cowbell Connector for Microsoft, enabling policyholders to manage cyber risk proactively within their Microsoft environments. Cowbell said the connector provides its customers with more direct visibility into the deployment of security best practices …
SaaS app security startup Atmosec exits stealth with $6M seed funding round
Software-as-a-service security Atmosec Ltd. is launching out of stealth mode today armed with $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners and Battery Ventures. Additional funds also came from a number of cybersecurity industry veterans, including Yevgeny …
Sysdig targets ‘unprecedented opportunity’ in container security after bagging $350M in late-stage funding
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. raised another bumper funding round today. This time, it has bagged $350 million through a Series G round that brings its value to $2.5 billion. Permira’s growth fund led the round with participation from new investor Guggenheim Partners …
Fugue enables consistent security policy enforcement across clouds
Cloud infrastructure management provider Fugue Inc. wants to provide enterprises with more control over their cloud computing environments and the applications they host. The new Fugue Organization Management service, announced today, helps enterprises put cloud security into operation across the entire organization, …
MLCommons releases open-source datasets for training speech recognition models
The MLCommons Association, a nonprofit consortium that aims to improve machine learning for the public good, today announced the release of two key new datasets that it says can be leverage by organizations to develop superior artificial intelligence models. The consortium said the …