SentinelOne scoops up Attivo Networks for $617M
Security companies typically start by focusing on one particular problem, but the biggest ones like Palo Alto Networks, FireEye and Symantec have shifted to a horizontal approach, typically gaining functionality over time through acquisition. SentinelOne, which went public last June, appears to be
Loveseat gets comfy with new funding to expand its returned home goods marketplace
Oversized items, like furniture, have become a common fixture at the curb in weekly trash days, with the Environmental Protection Agency finding 80% ends up being disposed of in landfills.
Companies like FloorFound have found success in managing furniture returns, but hot on their heels is Loveseat
Run:ai raises $75M for its AI platform
Tel Aviv-based Run:ai, a startup that makes it easier for developers and operations teams to manage and optimize their AI infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series C funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners, which also led the company’s $
Moonshot Brands funding, acquisitions highlight change in e-commerce aggregator space
Moonshot Brands today announced it secured $30 million in equity and $150 million in a credit facility that will be used, in part, to purchase assets from other e-commerce aggregators. Co-founder CJ Isakow said this was just the beginning of what he thought would be further consolidation in the cro
Adobe updates its Experience Cloud with a focus on personalization
Experience Cloud is Adobe’s umbrella brand for its digital experience solutions. These include, among other things, its data and analytics services, content management tools, a commerce platform and, with the 2020 acquisition of Workfront, a full marketing workflow management service, too. Th
Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs
Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. Cowbell Cyber, a full-stack insurance company that provides cyber insurance to SMEs
Staffbase raises $115M at a $1.1B valuation to help internal comms teams get their message across
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its by-product of social distancing to help reduce the spread of infection, led to many organizations working in a far more distributed way than they had in the past, and that put a big spotlight on how well companies collaborated and communicated — not just under
Pareto thinks it shouldn't be so hard to collect lead-generation data
Startups need data to grow, and Pareto CEO Phoebe Yao wants to make that as easy as possible.
She started the company in 2020 to provide virtual data analysts for businesses. Pareto's team of data experts offer actionable insights for sales marketing and recruiting pipelines. That data can be a
As tech companies suspend sales in Russia, what is the actual business impact?
Over the last couple of weeks, since Russia first attacked Ukraine, we’ve been hearing about loads of tech companies joining businesses from a variety of industries in suspending sales in Russia. It’s been a broad response, and clearly sends a message that companies will not continue to
6 technologists discuss how no-code tools are changing software development
The no-code/low-code space has been expanding rapidly in the past few years. As we learned from our last survey of investors active in the space earlier this month, the technology democratizes access to modern software development, but there are still some kinks to iron out. Mass adoption is still
Amazon, Microsoft and Google have suspended cloud sales in Russia
As the war in Ukraine continues, companies as varied as Exxon, Visa, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have suspended sales in Russia. Tech companies like Adobe, Apple and PayPal have joined in over the last couple of weeks.
We queried the world’s top cloud infrastructure vendors (including Amaz
SafeBase bags $18M Series A to speed up vendor security auditing process
Every company has to check the security credentials of its software vendors before signing on the dotted line to make a purchase. It usually involves a clunky non-digital process of signing NDAs and then requesting documents like pen test reports and SOC-2 compliance certification. This process can
Forrester predicts RPA software market growth will begin to flatten next year
Last year robotic process automation (RPA) was all the rage, as we saw market leader UiPath go public at a huge valuation, while larger more established players began to scoop up smaller vendors. Yet RPA has always felt like an interim automation solution to deal with legacy processes before shifti
Blink looks to simplify cloud operations management with $26M investment
Blink’s co-founders have been working in security and automation for a number of years, and they observed that there was a strong overlap between developer operations (DevOps) and security operations (SecOps) when it came to managing cloud infrastructure.
Initially, the founders believed this