News
Nov 7
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LinkedIn
ThetaLake featured at NYSE
Thank you NYSE for celebrating our recognition as a top cybersecurity startup on the NYSE trading floor! We're so proud to be recognized by Fortune and Lightspeed on the hashtag#Cyber60 list and for our commitment to helping customers achieve meaningful compliance outcomes.
Nov 4
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SecurityBrief
OLOID secures $6m funding & new Workday partnership
OLOID has announced a $6 million Series A1 funding round to expand its offerings in the identity management sector. More specifically, OLOID has secured significant investment to accelerate its growth in creating identity management solutions targeted at deskless workers. The funding round was led by Yaletown Partners, with participation from Exposition Ventures, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Carya Ventures, as well as existing investors. The company has also announced a new strategic partnership by becoming a Workday Innovation Partner and achieving Workday Certified Integration status. This certification will allow OLOID to enhance its services by connecting Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Time Tracking with its own Time Clock tool, offering streamlined integration for its customers.
Oct 31
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LinkedIn
Perspectives on Early Stage Robotics Investing
Robotics enables software to do critical real world tasks. We spoke to around 50-60 of the best funded robotics startups of the past many years, as well as investors and customers across industries to develop a robust thesis. We are thrilled to be investors in several robotics companies already, and look forward to backing a new generation of founders who can leverage robots. Below are three of the key characteristics we are looking for, in the robotic companies we are backing.
Oct 30
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Fortune
ThetaLake featured on Fortune Cyber 60
As Fortune surveyed the startup landscape for the second annual Cyber 60 list, the growing importance of cybersecurity within the startup and venture scene was more noticeable than ever. This year’s list of startups includes fresh names developing innovative tools to protect organizations from emerging threats like AI, as well as startups whose tools are already considered so vital that they generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue.
Oct 23
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SecurityBrief
Secuvy launches advanced features to boost data security
Secuvy has introduced a range of new features to bolster data security, mitigate insider threats, and enhance privacy operations. The newly announced features aim to advance the company's existing compliance, risk management, data leakage prevention, and secure collaboration capabilities. These tools are designed to assist organisations in safeguarding their critical data assets more effectively. The enhancements introduced by Secuvy consist of advanced integrations and a policy-based engine that supply actionable insights, which automate responses to some of the most significant security and compliance challenges faced today.
Oct 15
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Theta Lake
6th Annual Digital Communications Governance, Archiving, Compliance and Security Report from Theta Lake
Learn key insights, like how 97% of financial services aren’t ready to adopt GenAI, how 85% of firms are using 4+ Unified Communications and Collaboration tools, and more.
Oct 10
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VentureBeat
ApertureData offers 10x speed boost to enterprises using multimodal data
“ApertureDB can cut data infrastructure and dataset preparation times by 6-12 months, offering incredible value to CTOs and CDOs who are now expected to define a strategy for successful AI deployment in an extremely volatile environment with conflicting data requirements,” Vishakha Gupta, the founder and CEO of ApertureData, tells VentureBeat. She noted the offering can increase the productivity of data science and ML teams building multimodal AI by ten-fold on an average.
Oct 9
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HR Tech Series
OLOID and BeyondID Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Secure Workforce Identity Management for Frontline Workers
OLOID, a leading provider of physical identity and access solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with BeyondID, a leading managed identity solutions provider (MISP). BeyondID provides managed identity and cybersecurity solutions and services such as the BeyondID Integration Network. This collaboration focuses on delivering advanced identity management solutions that cater to the needs of frontline workers—who make up the backbone of industries such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and retail—by providing them with secure, touchless access to workplaces, shared devices, and applications.
Sep 26
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Rail Business Daily
'The chance to leverage AI technology to develop next generation rail infrastructure' – GCRE and KONUX agree to work together
The Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) has announced that it will work with AI start-up KONUX to support next generation rail infrastructure, in a tie-up agreed at InnoTrans 2024 in Berlin. Both organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to collaborate at the GCRE facility being developed for the European rail market. GCRE is a facility for world class rail and mobility research, testing and innovation currently being developed in South Wales.
Sep 10
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TechCrunch
StackGen raises $12.3M for its infrastructure-from-code service
AppCD is a startup that aims to make it easier for developers to set up infrastructure to run their applications by inferring what’s needed from their source code. The company on Tuesday announced that it has rebranded as StackGen and closed what is now a $12.3 million seed round (after first announcing a $6 million round in March).
Sep 1
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Binarly
Binarly aims to harden firmware supply chain for device, ecosystem trustworthiness
Binarly takes on one of the most difficult areas of security — low-level defects found in usually invisible layers of the computing stack, with the goal of providing software supply chain security to both upstream and downstream parties. In cases where source code is not always obtainable and distributions of firmware vary, Binarly looks to holistically build a full security understanding by looking at the binary's operation. By proving its capabilities beyond other application security approaches such as software composition analysis (SCA), Binarly looks to enhance vulnerability management, software bill of materials creation and SBOM validation for product security teams and enterprises alike.
Sep 1
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Discern Security/CrowdStrike
Discern Security: Leveraging the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to fortify security posture
Discern Security collaborates with CrowdStrike to provide strong security posture solution for customers.
Aug 25
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CIO Times
CIO Times Most Influential Leader to Look Up To In 2024 (feat Bunny Weiss)
It’s not easy for founders trying to build a startup company. When done with the right guidance it’s proven to be a differentiating factor in building a successful company. WestWave Capital invests in pre-seed, seed, and Series A enterprise startups. They give advice to cofounders, working closely with startups to reimagine industries and advance their product strategies to build a successful company. They focus on building deep technology enterprise companies in areas such as SaaS, Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Edge Computing, Analytics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Aug 24
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Fintech Global
Overcoming SMS compliance hurdles with 1Global and Theta Lake integration
In the current digital age, SMS has become a vital communication tool, especially within the financial services sector where the need for timely and secure messaging is paramount. Yet, the regulatory framework that governs SMS communications is both complex and stringent.
Aug 22
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EIN News
Vendia expands automation footprint for Delta Air Lines
Vendia, a leading data automation cloud provider, today announced an extended agreement with Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) to further elevate customer-focused collaboration, responsiveness, and efficiencies across Delta’s joint venture (JV) and strategic alliance initiatives. Through this expanded agreement, Vendia will continue to support Delta in empowering distributed customer support teams with trusted, accurate information inside their respective systems of record at all times.
Aug 17
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ArsTechnica
Binarly Report: Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro. The cause: a cryptographic key underpinning Secure Boot on those models that was compromised in 2022.
Aug 7
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LinkedIn/Crustdata
Lative named in Crustdata Top 10 Sales Tools
Lative leverages AI and machine learning for sales analytics and forecasting. It provides tools for revenue prediction, customer segmentation, and sales strategy optimization. Founders: Werner Schmidt, Laura Tortosa Sancho
Aug 5
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PR Newswire Asia
NEC APAC Signs Strategic Agreement with Spectro Cloud to Accelerate Cloud Native Innovation
NEC Asia Pacific (NEC APAC), the ASEAN regional headquarters of global technology firm NEC Corporation, and Spectro Cloud, a California-based leading Kubernetes management platform provider, have signed a strategic agreement to advance cloud-native innovation for organisations.
Aug 1
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Information & Data Manager
Secuvy launches AI Data Governance Solution
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape business landscapes, a critical challenge has emerged: how to harness AI's power while safeguarding sensitive data. Secuvy believes it has the answer with its newly unveiled AI-driven data governance and privacy platform.
Jul 30
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PR Newswire
As organizations increase use of AI tools, Secuvy unveils targeted approach for AI Data Governance
Secuvy, an AI-driven data governance and data privacy platform, is now the solution organizations across the globe are looking towards to solve their AI Data Governance issues. With the increased use of AI tools across all business sectors, it is more important than ever that organizations utilize solutions that ensure their data remains protected. Through their dynamic and adaptive processes, Secuvy is offering PI and Sensitive Data Scrubbing for large language models and deep learning models to guarantee that data remains safe and secure while working with AI models.
Jul 30
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EIN Presswire
Vendia Launches Marketplace Insights & Data Distribution on Snowflake Marketplace to Unlock Revenue for Data Providers
Vendia's Snowflake Native App provides rich customer insights, agile data product curation and delivery, and robust security & compliance to joint customers
Jul 26
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SC Media
PKFail bug puts firmware security at risk
Researchers said that a years-old security leak is putting a number of production model PCs at risk of persistent remote takeover. The team at Binarly said that the issue, known as PKfail, is exposing the private keys for a number of motherboard firmware builds and, as a result, leaving systems exposed to low-level malware attacks that would not be detectable to OS-level antimalware protections.
Jun 24
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Forbes
Employee Spending Accounts: Understanding Employers' Options (by Alex Shubat, CEO at Espresa)
Organizations face new challenges in supporting dispersed and diverse workforces in today’s ever-evolving business environment, characterized by the complexity of in-office, remote and hybrid work alongside the blurring of geographical boundaries with greater emphasis on inclusivity and equity. This landscape, also defined by a competitive job market, means it's important that companies offer a comprehensive employee benefits package—recognizing benefits’ pivotal role in potential hires' decision-making process and retaining current team members.
Jun 24
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Sociable.co
Congratulations, Sammy Award Winners -- Prezent Wins Product of the Year
When Rajat Mishra was growing up in India, he had a stutter. Fast forward to this week, that young child’s company is the recipient of the Sammy Award, an industry recognization that acknowledges marketing and sales companies redefining how businesses connect with customers.
Jun 5
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Forbes
Can Zingly Finally Solve The World’s Customer Experience Frustrations?
Why is customer service so often so bad? The short answer, says Gaurav Passi, CEO and founder of San Francisco-based Zingly.ai, is there’s a mismatch between supply and demand. “There are around 16.5 million customer service agents working worldwide, and they have to deal with several billion customers,” he says. “No business wants its customers to have a bad experience, but the maths makes that almost inevitable.”
Jun 5
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Theta Lake
Theta Lake Delivers Voice Compliance Innovations Across Call Center, Enterprise Voice, Trader Voice, and Mobile Use Cases
Theta Lake, Inc., a recognized Digital Communications Governance (DCG) provider and multi-award winning provider of Unified Communication Compliance solutions, has added a number of capabilities, integrations, and partnerships to meet the growing need for updated voice recording and compliance capabilities. As companies embrace alternatives to legacy voice and calling infrastructure and move to cloud-based unified communication-based phone and voice platforms, modern voice recording compliance approaches have become essential. This shift to cloud-native voice presents new challenges for legacy compliance recording systems that are device and network-based, and Theta Lake is at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions to meet the need.
May 29
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SecurityWeek
New Endpoint Protection Platform by Cigent Blocks Ransomware at the Data Level
A new endpoint data protection platform from Cigent Technology refocuses ransomware prevention onto protecting customer data from both encryption and exfiltration. With no loss of data, criminal extortion is prevented.
May 6
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Business Insider
The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2024
Behind most startup founders is an early-stage investor who saw their potential, nurtured their ambition, and backed their ideas. These are not just check-writers but shrewd risk-takers, enthusiastic collaborators, and trend forecasters. The end of a record bull run in tech rebooted the startup landscape, and now early-stage investors are embracing the change. Founders have gone back to basics, staying lean and mean from the start and harnessing tailwinds of the artificial intelligence boom.
Apr 30
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Global Secuirty Mag
Cigent and Swissbit announce partnership to enhance endpoint data security
Cigent, a leading provider of endpoint data protection solutions, and Swissbit, a leading manufacturer of storage, security, and embedded IoT solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to offer a comprehensive portfolio of secure storage drives designed to safeguard endpoint data against a growing landscape of cyberthreats.
Apr 30
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K1
SecureAuth Announces Acquisition and Integration of Cloudentity
SecureAuth, a leader in next-generation access management and authentication, has strengthened its innovation and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) capabilities through the successful acquisition and integration of Cloudentity earlier this year.
Apr 29
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CXO Outlook
Empowering Entrepreneurs and Driving Meaningful Innovation (with Bunny Weiss)
Warren Weiss, fondly called “Bunny”, has an impressive track record of discovering tech giants in their early stages. He gained recognition for his work on SilverSpring Networks, which earned him a place on the Forbes Midas List of Top Technology Investors. Additionally, Business Insider magazine voted him as one of the Top 100 Seed investors. Bunny has had a successful career as a CEO of both public and private venture-backed companies.
Apr 24
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Forbes
Putting The Human Touch Back Into Cybersecurity With Amplifier
“New cybersecurity tools are launched every week but they’re just not working,” says Shreyas Sadalgi, the CEO and co-founder of Atlanta-based start-up Amplifier Security. “We keep on getting these massive breaches.” Sadalgi and his co-founder, CTO Thomas Donnelly, believe a different approach to cybersecurity is needed. Amplifier, which will today announce it has raised $3.3 million of pre-seed investment, is their attempt at meeting that need.
Apr 24
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Datenaffaire
How data makes trains more punctual
[In German] Train cancelled because of another switch failure? Or is it late because of a problem with signalling? We've each had the experienced, but it's all avoidable with data analysis, rather than following inspection regimes. Learn how as Bianca Löw, engineering team lead at KONUX, joins Dr. Annika Bergbauer.
Apr 17
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PR Newswire
Espresa Announces Partnership with Headspace to Support Global Well-being
Espresa, a personal benefits and Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSA) platform designed for global enterprises, announced its partnership with Headspace, the provider of the world's most accessible, comprehensive mental health system.
Apr 2
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BusinessWire
Docyt to Unveil New Voice-Based Tools for AI-driven Accounting Platform
“The hospitality industry is under tremendous pressure to succeed in the face of ever-narrowing margins, highlighting the need for financial tools that give hoteliers a clearer view of their financial health,” said Sid Saxena, Docyt’s co-founder and CEO. “Building voice-based input into our platform helps users accelerate accounting workflows and allows them to work in a more intuitive way. By streamlining the bookkeeping process - and delivering tools like the new voice-based feature we’re previewing at AAHOACON24 - we make it easier than ever for hospitality businesses to have real-time visibility into their books to maximize the profitability of their hotels.”
Mar 25
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Theta Lake
Theta Lake Breaks New Ground in Unified Compliance Coverage for Unified Communication Platforms
The release showcases advancements in Voice, SMS, Whiteboards, Visual Collaboration, and Theta Lake’s extensive coverage across the spectrum of today’s top communication and collaboration platforms.
Mar 24
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Cisco
Gnarly Binary Analysis
So much of our emphasis on cybersecurity lies at the network, device, user, and application level, securing vulnerabilities that can give bad actors access to, well, everything. But – as any builder will tell you – the secret to a strong house is a strong foundation. For us, this means going back to basics, beneath our operating systems, to secure software and firmware.
Mar 24
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Binarly
Software Supply Chain Security Leader Binarly Closes $10.5 Million Financing Led by Two Bear Capital
Binarly, provider of an industry leading AI-powered firmware and software supply chain security platform, today announced the closing of a $10.5 million seed funding round.
Mar 20
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Zoom
Zoom announces Compliance Manager powered by Theta Lake
Zoom Compliance Manager provides a single integrated platform for risk and compliance management, data governance, and information protection across the Zoom platform, powered by Theta Lake.
Mar 5
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The New Stack
appCD Lifts Developer Load by Automating Infrastructure from Code
Maintaining that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has failed to live up to its hype, San Francisco-based startup appCD has opened early access to what it’s calling its generative Infrastructure from Code (IfC) software. The eponymous software auto-generates infrastructure from the application code and automatically applies operations and security policies.
Feb 22
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Morning Star
Docyt Combats U.S. Accountant Shortage with the Launch of Docyt University
Docyt, the frontrunner in AI-driven accounting automation technology, unveiled Docyt University as a free resource for accountants and other financial personnel to train and become certified on the latest advanced AI accounting tools. The rich online curriculum centers on AI-driven accounting automation techniques that streamline workflows, improve accuracy, and give accountants a clearer path to achieving their business objectives.
Feb 21
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Help Net Security
10 cybersecurity startups to watch in 2024
At Help Net Security, we’ve been following the cybersecurity business landscape closely for the past 25 years. Through our Industry News section, we’ve been tracking the pulse of the cybersecurity world, bringing you product news from companies worldwide. Certain vendors have consistently managed to capture our attention. We decided to spotlight companies breaking new ground, attracting top talent, and leading innovation in key areas. We are focusing on those who are not just responding to current trends but are actively setting them.
Feb 20
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Silicon Angle
Observability startup SigScalr plans to revolutionize log search
SigScalr Inc., developer of an open-source observability application designed to process large volumes of data, is emerging today with $1.76 million in pre-seed funding. Founded by a former Salesforce Inc. observability engineer, the company’s Siglens platform is a columnar analytical database that is said to execute queries more than 50 times faster than Apache Clickhouse and over 1,000 times faster than Elasticsearch. Both are commonly used for log analytics.
Feb 9
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CIO Look
Investing Beyond Trends: Gaurav Manglik’s Long-Game in Venture Capital from Market Dynamics to Long-Term Success
Gaurav Manglik, the General Partner at WestWave Capital, possesses a unique narrative rooted in entrepreneurship. His venture capital odyssey commenced with a stint as an entrepreneur, drawing from early roles at tech giants Oracle and VMware.
Feb 8
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GeoSpatial World
Advanced Navigation Achieves LiDAR Survey Efficiency For Road Networks
The solution to managing backlogs of inspection and maintenance is to use a smart combination of technologies that make the data capture and processing fast, cost-efficient, and scalable. This is where EyeVi Technologies steps in.
Jan 18
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The Irish Times
Software start-up Lative raises $3m in funding
Irish headquartered software start-up Lative has raised $3 million (€2.7 million) in a seed funding round that will help support the company’s growth.
Jan 17
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Business Wire
Cigent Approved for Securing Government and Military Data, Added To NSA Commercial Solutions For Classified Components List
Cigent Technology, Inc., the leader in embedded cybersecurity in storage devices, today announced that its pre-boot authentication software has been approved for inclusion on the National Security Agency Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) components list for the Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program.
Jan 17
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GeekWire
Tech vets acquire Fullcast
Fullcast, a software startup that helps companies manage and automate their revenue-generating operations, is changing hands and its headquarters location after an acquisition deal.
Jan 9
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BusinessWire
Cigent-powered self-encrypting drive achieves certification
Cigent offers a new approach to data security stop ransomware and data theft, as well as achieve compliance. Cigent protects your most valuable asset–your data–against the most sophisticated adversaries. Cigent protects data via prevention-based defenses embedded into the storage at the drive, partition, folders and even individual files.
Dec 12
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PR Newswire
Savant Labs, a Generative AI Analytics Automation Platform Provider, and Data Prep U, Partner to Deliver Analytics Automation for Business Teams
Savant Labs, pioneer of a generative AI-powered analytics automation platform, announces a partnership with Data Prep U, a Colorado-based consulting and analytics solutions provider that serves clients across North America.
Nov 27
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CSO Online
Binarly, Discern, StackIdentity: 2023 Cybersecurity startups to watch for
These startups are jumping in where most established security vendors have yet to go.
Nov 14
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Silicon Angle
Startup Fractl releases its language for building generative AI applications to open source
Fractl Inc., developer of a programming language for building generative artificial intelligence applications, today said it has raised $1.025 million in a pre-seed funding round and released its namesake language under an open-source license.
Nov 12
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Alejandro Cremades
Nick Damiano On Building A $1 Billion Company And Now Raising Millions To Use Robotics And AI In Surgical Procedures
Nick Damiano, a seasoned entrepreneur and visionary in the field of healthcare technology, shared his journey from being born into a medical family to becoming a founder of groundbreaking startups. His experiences, setbacks, and triumphs offer valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and healthcare innovators.
Nov 11
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Secuvy.ai
[PDF] Data Detective: Mastering Sensitive Data Discovery, from Secuvy.ai
Primer for IT Security Professionals
Oct 23
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Newswire
Insurtech Koop Technologies Announces Strategic Investment From Hyundai and Kia
Pittsburgh, PA-based insurtech Koop Technologies announced strategic funding from Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation, a leading global automotive OEM conglomerate, to focus on pioneering insurance and risk control technologies for autonomous vehicles and robotics.
Oct 14
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Meaningful Business
Amit Haller, Co-Founder & CEO at Veev, recognized by Meaningful Business on the 2023 MB100
The 2023 MB100 are an outstanding group of leaders combining profit and purpose to help achieve the UN Global Goals.
Oct 6
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Martech Series
Secuvy Announces New Leadership as Company Accelerates Strategy as the Pioneer in Self-Learning AI-Powered Data Intelligence
Secuvy, the pioneer in unified data security and privacy, today announced that seasoned sales executive Ediz Ertekin has been appointed Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), and cybersecurity executive Doug Vinson has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Reporting to Secuvy CEO Vaibhav Mehrotra, Ediz and Doug will assume their new roles in Secuvy’s Leadership Team immediately to power the company’s next phase of growth.
Oct 4
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Ars Technica
Vulnerabilities in Supermicro BMCs could allow for unkillable server rootkits (featuring Binarly)
If your organization uses servers that are equipped with baseboard management controllers from Supermicro, it may be time, once again, to patch seven high-severity vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to gain control of them. And sorry, but the fixes must be installed manually.
Oct 3
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BusinessWire
CellTrust and Theta Lake Announce Strategic Integration to Manage and Mitigate Mobile Communications Risk
CellTrust Corporation, a leading provider of secure and compliant mobile communication for government and enterprise, announced today its SL2™ product integration with Theta Lake, a leader in digital communications governance, providing compliance and security protection solutions. This strategic partnership aims to provide organizations with a comprehensive solution for managing compliance and mitigating risks associated with mobile communications such as WhatsApp.
Oct 3
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EIN News
OLOID Showcases Passwordless Authentication Platform For Frontline Workers at Oktane 2023
OLOID will showcase its passwordless authentication platform at the 11th edition of Oktane 2023 at Moscone West, San Francisco, from October 3rd to 5th.
Sep 20
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ThetaLake
https://thetalake.com/press-release-theta-lake-expands-partnership-with-ringcentral-by-adding-ringcentral-contact-center-support-to-deliver-more-customer-value/
Theta Lake adds support for RingCentral Contact Center to its existing RingCentral MVP integration to deliver the most comprehensive compliance and security solution to RingCentral customers.
Sep 19
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Forbes
Why Discern Security Thinks AI Can Defeat The Cyber Attackers
Sai Venkataraman, the co-founder and CEO of Discern Security, believes a large part of the problem is that after spending all that money on a patchwork quilt of cybersecurity solutions, many organisations simply don’t know how to use them properly. Discern, which is today announcing the successful completion of a $3 million seed funding round, thinks artificial intelligence is the answer.
Sep 14
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BusinessWire
Spectro Cloud’s New Palette EdgeAI Solution Helps Organizations Realize the Potential of AI Augmented Applications at the Edge
Spectro Cloud today announced Palette EdgeAI to simplify how organizations deploy and manage AI workloads at scale across simple to complex edge locations, such as retail, healthcare, industrial automation, oil and gas, automotive/connected cars, and more.
Sep 14
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BusinessWire
Spectro Cloud Announces Qualcomm Ventures Investment to Accelerate Edge and AI Innovation at Scale
Spectro Cloud, a leading platform provider of modern Kubernetes management, today announced an investment led by Qualcomm Ventures. Spectro Cloud is a leader in helping organizations realize the true potential of Kubernetes and its related ecosystem across any datacenter, cloud, or edge environment, at scale.
Sep 11
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EIN News
OLOID introduces its AI-powered Integration Workflows for Converged Cyber and Physical Security at GSX 2023
OLOID Inc., a leading physical identity and access technology provider, will showcase AI-powered integration Workflows at the Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2023. This workflow automation tool is designed to leverage the new and improved generation of AI models to address the needs of the security industry.
Sep 6
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Bloomberg
Malicious Chinese Code in Korean Gear is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Article featuring Binarly CEO Alex Matrosov.
Sep 5
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BizJournals
Aug 16
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MENA FN
Fullcast Recognized By Analyst Firm Gtm Partners As Emerging Gtm Tech Vendor
Fullcast, the industry's only RevOps platform for GTM planning and execution, today announced it has been named a spotlight vendor in a report from analyst firm GTM Partners.
Aug 15
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Railway Age
KONUX Receives REMSA 2023 Innovation Award
The Railway Engineering-Maintenance Suppliers Association (REMSA) has named KONUX a 2023 Innovation Award Winner in the Technology Category for its Switch predictive maintenance system.
Aug 11
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CRN
Binarly: 10 Cybersecurity Startups To Watch From Black Hat 2023
Numerous early stage companies—including in fast-growing areas such as code security and cloud security—unveiled new products or had other major announcements at Black Hat USA this week.
Aug 10
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SC Media
Talking to the founder of Binarly, a Black Hat Startup Spotlight Finalist – Alex Matrosov
Binarly is one of only a few startups focused on highlighting security issues in firmware. The company has discovered a remarkable number of vulnerabilities in firmware in a very short time. Its' founder, Alex Matrosov, joins us to discuss insights discovered along his company's journey to convince vendors that firmware is worth securing.
Aug 1
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Secuvy.ai
Explosion of Large Language Models (LLMs), Unstructured Data and the Need for AI Data Discovery (Part 2)
What every privacy & legal team needs to know.
Jul 28
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Press Release
Theta Lake Recognized as a Leader in Compliance and Security for Unified Communications Solutions
Theta Lake Wins Best Compliance Product at UC Awards and Recognized in two Gartner Hype Cycles
Jul 23
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Secuvy.ai
Large Language Models (LLMs), Data Privacy, and Security: What you Need to Know (Part 1)
We have witnessed the remarkable rise of generative AI, powered by vast amounts of pre-trained data within large language models (LLMs). Chat-based interfaces have democratized AI for the general public, which has led us to where we are today. With these capabilities, customer data can be easily misused as private conversations. Activity and logs can now be combined with user cookies to allow privacy and security breaches within a simple prompt. As we do not yet have data governance controls for LLMs, a malicious actor can request and receive sensitive data related to a business or person with relative ease.
Jul 21
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Solutions Review
Cigent Announces New Pre-Boot Authentication
Cigent Technology, Inc., a cybersecurity solutions provider, this week unveiled Cigent Data Defense Pre-Boot Authentication, which Enables a TCG Opal 2.0 Self Encrypting Drive to be fully encrypted, preventing adversaries from being able to access the data if they get physical access to the PC or storage device.
May 23
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Business Insider
Partner Bunny Weiss Named to Business Insider Top 100 Seed Investors
Seed-stage investing is the riskiest — and potentially most rewarding — venture-capital round and the choice of seed investor can make or break a startup. Great ones help with everything from mentoring to securing follow-on rounds of capital.
May 18
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Datanami
Savant Labs Aims to Save Millions of Productivity Hours with New AI Tool, Savant Copilot
Savant Labs, an Analytics Automation platform for data analysts, announced Savant Copilot to accelerate creating analytic outcomes. The announcement was made at the Cota Connect summit in San Francisco, hosted by Savant Labs investor Cota Capital.
May 13
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YouTube
Western Illinois University Spring 2023 Commencement Speech (Bunny Weiss)
Spring 2023 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Apr 23
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VentureBeat
Stack Identity Emerges from Stealth with $4M Seed Funding, Solves ‘Shadow Access’ Problem with Automated IAM Operations
Stack Identity’s patent-pending algorithm detects and eliminates unauthorized, invisible shadow access to prevent cloud data WestWave Capital and Benhamou Global Ventures co-led the seed funding round Silicon Valley startup was founded by cybersecurity industry veterans with decades of industry experience across Symantec, McAfee, IBM, Netskope and BlueCoat
Apr 19
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VentureBeat
Sonet.io: Top 20 zero-trust startups to watch in 2023
Sonet Io is a cloud service that can enable secure zero-trust access from any device without requiring any agents to be installed. The architecture is based on its unique approach to zero trust defined in its Trusted Access cloud service. It’s noteworthy from a zero-trust perspective because of its adaptability and flexibility, allowing enterprises to control access to SaaS and web applications and servers, prevent sensitive data theft and monitor user activity from any device without requiring any software installations.
Apr 19
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Western Illinois University
WIU Spring 2023 Commencement Weekend - Distinguished Alumni
Bunny Weiss recognized as Distinguished Alumnus
Apr 18
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Yahoo
Spectro Cloud Launches the Secure Edge-Native Architecture (SENA) for Securely Deploying and Managing Edge Computing Environments at Scale
SENA is an enterprise-ready solution architecture built on zero-trust principles, to effectively deploy, provision, operate and manage Kubernetes edge environments at scale.
Apr 11
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Business Wire
Binarly Unveils Next-Gen Firmware Protection Transparency Platform, Revolutionizing Device Supply Chain Security
Binarly today announced the general release of the Binarly Transparency Platform, delivering unprecedented transparency for device supply chains enabling device manufacturers and endpoint protection products to comprehensively analyze both firmware and hardware to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malicious code implantation.
Apr 3
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GlobeNewswire
Cigent Alliance to Bring Sophisticated Cybersecurity Protection for SSD Storage to Public Sector Agencies
Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced that Seagate Government Solutions’ Barracuda 515 M.2 solid state drive (SSD) - embedded with Cigent® Technology’s built in cybersecurity enhancements is now available to Government agencies through Carahsoft’s resellers and its Federal, State and Local Government contract vehicles.
Apr 3
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UC Today
Theta Lake & Mural Partnership Brings Automated Compliant Whiteboards to Market
UC Today's David Dungay hosts Dan Nadir, Chief Product Officer at Theta Lake
Mar 29
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EIN Newswires
OLOID announces the launch of no-code integration workflows for physical identity and access management
OLOID announces launch of no-code integration workflows for physical identity and access management for automating physical security processes.
Mar 28
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No Jitter
Bandwidth, Theta Lake Tie for Best of Enterprise Connect
Theta Lake was selected Overall Best for the latest release of its Risk and Compliance Suite, which provides compliance and security for collaboration platforms and enables organizations to expand their use of communication platforms for video, voice, documents and chat content.
Mar 16
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Business Wire
Secuvy Announces New Investments from Dell Technologies Capital and WestWave Capital to Modernize Data Privacy and Security
Secuvy, the cloud-native, contextual data privacy & security platform, has announced the successful completion of its funding round from investors. The funding will be used in accelerating company growth plans, expanding the team, and further developing and enhancing the Secuvy privacy & security platform. The latest funding round was led by Dell Technologies Capital & WestWave Capital, with participation from Z5 Capital.
Mar 14
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Indianpolis Business Journal
Elate lands $4.9M investment led by WestWave Capital
Indianapolis-based software startup Elate Inc., which launched its first product in August 2021, has closed on a $4.9 million venture capital investment, the company announced Tuesday. The Series A funding round was led by Palo Alto, California-based WestWave Capital, with participation from other new investors: Pritzker Group and Hyde Park Angels, both based in Chicago; and Capital Midwest Fund, based in Mequon, Wisconsin.
Mar 3
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Sand Hill
M.R. Asks 3 Questions: Idit Levine, Founder & CEO, Solo.io
Idit Levine, is the founder and CEO of the unicorn service mesh platform, Solo.io. Some say that it was her professional basketball career that gave her the drive to develop such a successful enterprise. Others report her success should be attributed to her ability to self-teach solution-based skills. Likely, it’s both. Idit’s dialed-in focus for how enterprises can connect hard-to-change, tested applications with more modern, flexible microservices and service mesh is worthy of her organisation’s $1B Valuation.
Mar 1
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TechCrunch
Savant Labs aims to bring analytics directly to line of business users
Chitrang Shah, founder and CEO at Savant Labs, says people charged with dealing with data spend too much time doing manual tasks to wrangle the data they need, and they do this repeatedly. He saw an area that was ripe for automation, which he sees as a key differentiator for the startup. “So we are building a platform for [business users], and the main impetus behind it is the amount of manual work that goes on in doing analytics and reporting is staggering. You go and talk to these people and they will tell you that half their time, more than half their time sometimes, is spent just doing manual stuff over and over again. And that’s where we are out there to change. We are the first platform that brings automation to analytics,” Shah told TechCrunch.
Jan 24
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Forbes
Meet The Startup That Believes AI Can Solve Your IT Outages
San Francisco-based startup unSkript will today unveil a $3.75 million pre-seed funding round as it seeks to further commercialise its troubleshooting platform for digital businesses. The company, founded in 2020, claims to be able to help customers resolve their IT issues up to 25 times' more quickly.
Jan 16
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VentureBeat
Jan 6
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CSO
Cybersecurity startups to watch for in 2023: Binarly
The problems cybersecurity startups attempt to solve are often a bit ahead of the mainstream. They can move faster than most established companies to fill gaps or emerging needs. Startups can often innovative faster because they are unfettered by an installed base.
Jan 6
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Security Week
Qualcomm UEFI Flaws Expose Microsoft, Lenovo, Samsung Devices to Attacks (Binarly)
Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly, told SecurityWeek that they discovered a total of nine vulnerabilities while analyzing the firmware for Lenovo Thinkpad X13s laptops powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon system-on-a-chip (SoC).
Jan 5
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Espresso Capital
WestWave Capital’s Rohan Puranik on Investing in Security, Robotics, and Enterprise Deep Tech
WestWave Capital’s Rohan Puranik on Investing in Security, Robotics, and Enterprise Deep Tech
Jan 4
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The Hacker News
Binarly Reports Qualcomm, Lenovo Vulnerabilities
Qualcomm on Tuesday released patches to address multiple security flaws in its chipsets, some of which could be exploited to cause information disclosure and memory corruption. The five vulnerabilities -- tracked from CVE-2022-40516 through CVE-2022-40520 -- also impact Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptops, prompting the Chinese PC maker to issue BIOS updates to plug the security holes.
Jan 4
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SC Media
Qualcomm, Lenovo flag multiple high impact firmware vulnerabilities (Binarly)
“We opened Pandora’s box of ARM devices UEFI firmware vulnerabilities impacting enterprise vendors,” Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly told SC Media. “The big part of vulnerabilities [we reported] related to Qualcomm’s reference code for Snapdragon chips. The vulnerabilities in reference code are usually one of the most impactful since they tend to affect the whole ecosystem and not just a single vendor. Due to the complexity of the UEFI firmware supply chain, these vulnerabilities often create additional impact.”
Dec 31
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Yahoo Finance
Prezent strengthens leadership team to reinforce continued growth
Prezent, the AI-powered presentation platform for enterprise teams, announced today that it has promoted three members of its leadership team and added three new leaders to support the company's exponential growth. The company has also established an Advisory Board with three new members. These changes will support the 2023 growth plans after Prezent's $20M Series A (led by Greycroft) in April 2022, Zoom Ventures investment in September 2022, and 300%+ growth in 2022.
Dec 22
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Sand Hill
M.R. Asks 3 Questions: Warren Weiss, Founder & General Partner of West Wave Capital
Affectionately as “Bunny,” Warren Weiss has had decades of success uncovering tech giants in their emerging stages. His work on SilverSpring Networks earned him a spot on the Forbes Midas List of Technology’s Top Investors. He’s a four-time CEO of venture backed companies, and worked with Steve Jobs at NeXT. Bunny serves on the Board of Binarly for WestWave Capital. He remains a General Partner on past fundsat Foundation Capital (where he no longer makes new investments) and serves on the boards of ForgeRock (IPO) and Visier. Bunny is also on the board of the Weiss Scholarship Foundation, a charity that provides education to children in Kenya. With Warren’s experience and perspective, we figured this would be a quick and insightful read as we head into the new year.