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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 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.
Nov 9
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EIN News
OLOID showcases it unique cyber-physical identity convergence solutions at Oktane 2022
OLOID Inc, a Sunnyvale-based technology company that provides retrofit solutions for modernizing workplace identity and access management, will present its facial authentication solutions for modern enterprise at the 10th edition of Oktane, an annual identity event hosted by Okta in the heart of San Francisco city. Oktane is being held at Moscone West from November 8th-10th, 2022 this year.
Nov 8
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ThetaLake
Theta Lake Delivers Free Patented Technology For Organizations to Better Monitor and Manage Zoom Security Settings
Theta Lake, a leader in modern collaboration compliance and security solutions, today announced Meetings Risk Manager (MRM), its sixth Zoom-certified module in the Zoom App Marketplace, and the only patented solution for Zoom meeting safety, security posture and configuration drift monitoring, alerting, and remediation.
Nov 3
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TechCrunch
FlowForge nabs $7.2M to help companies integrate IoT using Node-RED
A new company from one of the original creators of the open source Node-RED project is setting out to make it easier for companies to bridge the gap between incompatible IoT ecosystems at scale.
Nov 3
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The New Stack
Deep Work: A Better Way to Measure Developer Velocity
Estimating developer work is more art than science. Devs typically use story points or hours for their estimations, or sometimes they’ll use a “planning poker” exercise to determine what they can accomplish in a given sprint.
Oct 27
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ThetaLake
Theta Lake Report Uncovers Growing Lack of Compliance Visibility into Business Communications in the Hybrid Workplace
Two-thirds of respondents believe their employees are using unmonitored communication channels, increasing the need for compliance and security tools.
Oct 27
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Forbes
Immigrant-Founded Veev Builds Future In America One House At A Time
Immigrant entrepreneurs play a crucial role in innovation and job creation in the United States. “Immigrants have started more than half (319 of 582, or 55%) of America’s startup companies valued at $1 billion or more,” according to a recent report from the National Foundation for American Policy. Veev, a successful housing technology firm, is one of those companies. To learn more about Veev, I interviewed CEO Amit Haller, who responded in writing. Haller, an immigrant from Israel, discussed his experience in America and provided advice to new entrepreneurs.
Oct 18
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Mediafly
Mediafly Acquires Aptology, Adds Talent Intelligence to Industry’s Most Comprehensive Revenue Enablement Platform
Mediafly, the leading revenue enablement platform, has acquired Aptology, the talent intelligence platform specializing in assessing and predicting sales rep performance. Aptology is Mediafly’s sixth acquisition and the latest addition to the company’s modular Revenue360 platform, which includes sales enablement, content management, coaching, value selling and revenue intelligence.
Oct 13
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UC Today
How Theta Lake’s Selective Archiving Helps IT Managers make Compliance and Business Users Equally Happy
With Theta Lake’s Selective Archiving, firms can turn on the functionality that staff need to run effective, profitable meetings. Yet compliance leaders can still extract the meeting elements (i.e. chat, polls, and whiteboards) they want to retain and review.
Oct 4
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Yahoo Finance
Cigent Achieves FIPS Validated and NIAP Status
The DIGISTOR Citadel C Series Advanced SSD is set to become the first commercial off-the-shelf solid-state drive (SSD) that includes Cigent's advanced firmware level security capabilities to be on the NIAP Compliant list for use by military and government agencies, critical infrastructure, and enterprises requiring the highest data security levels. Cigent focuses on protecting data, not the device or the network.
Sep 27
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PR Newswire
Prezent announces Zoom Ventures as latest investor to help power presentation productivity for the enterprise
Prezent, the AI-powered presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams, announced today that it has added Zoom Ventures as an investor. This comes after the $20 million raised in a Series A funding round in April 2022 and the $4.3 million raised in seed capital in August 2021.
Sep 23
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Protocol
Enterprise blockchain has been a dud. These two AWS vets think they can make it work.
Vendia, founded by Tim Wagner and Shruthi Rao, wants to help companies build real-time, decentralized data applications. Its product allows enterprises to more easily share code and data across clouds, regions, companies, accounts, and technology stacks.
Sep 22
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Newswire
Fullcast Named as a Cool Vendor in 2022 Gartner Report
Fullcast, the industry's only RevOps platform for GTM planning and execution, today announced that it has been recognized as a Cool Vendor in the Sept. 15, 2022, report, entitled, "Cool Vendors™ in RevOps Data Automation," by Dan Gottlieb and Steve Rietberg at Gartner.
Sep 22
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Channel Futures
MSP, MSSP Partners Fueling Blueshift Cybersecurity Growth, CrowdStrike M&A
Blueshift Cybersecurity, which spun off from Cigent Technology nearly a year ago, is helping MSP and MSSP partners beef up their cybersecurity with its full-service extended detection and response (XDR).
Sep 19
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Business Insider
Veev named amongst most promising PropTech startups
Veev uses modular-construction techniques to build prefabricated homes while simultaneously reducing waste in the construction process.
Sep 15
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UC Today
Regulatory Crackdown Fuels Growth for Theta Lake
The communications compliance company has seen year-over-year triple-digit percentage growth in annual recurring revenue for the first half of the fiscal year, gaining new customers in North America, Europe, and the UK. Theta Lake has now met the objectives it set out following series B financing it received in March from UC companies, which include Cisco, Zoom, Salesforce, and RingCentral.
Sep 14
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Globe Newswire
Autonomous Vehicle Insurtech Koop Technologies Launches Industry-First Robotics Errors & Omissions Insurance Product
Koop Technologies, an insurance technology company specializing in autonomous vehicles and robotics risks, has launched an industry-first Robotics General Liability and Errors & Omissions insurance product in partnership with CJ Coleman and leading Lloyd's of London syndicates. The new coverage is designed for off-road autonomous vehicles and robotics developers, operators, and service providers across various industries.
Sep 14
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BusinessWire
DIGISTOR Extends Commercially Priced Self-Encrypting Drive Products With Key Pre-Boot Authentication Feature to Secure Data at Rest (DAR)
DIGISTOR, a CRU Data Security Group (CDSG) brand, has added to its innovative line of secure DIGISTOR Citadel™ self-encrypting drives with pre-boot authentication by introducing PBA to its Citadel C Series lineup. The new drives, powered by Cigent®, add the critical PBA function to their existing DIGISTOR C Series of self-encrypting drives.
Sep 13
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Security InfoWatch
On the Scene at GSX: Oloid brings new slant to physical access control
Although the access control market historically has been slow to adapt to larger tech trends that affect other product segments across the security industry, the past decade has ushered in a new era in how end users think about and deploy these solutions. From the proliferation of cloud-based management systems to the use of mobile phones as credentials, how people enter secure facilities has been changed fundamentally by technology evolution.
Sep 8
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TechCrunch
Google and Solo.io bring Ambient Mesh to Istio
Google and Solo.io today announced the next evolution of the Istio service mesh. Dubbed the “Ambient Mesh,” this new framework does away with Istio’s sidecar-centric architecture and replaces it with a sidecar-less approach that promises to improve the service’s security posture and make it easier for new users to adopt the technology by reducing the resources needed to run it.
Sep 6
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Inside Big Data
Can Blockchain Fix The Global Supply Chain?
In this special guest feature, Dr. Tim Wagner, CEO and Co-founder, Vendia, discusses why traditional blockchains are failing businesses and how enterprise companies should be thinking about data sharing solutions instead.
Aug 4
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Intel Technology
Chips & Salsa – The State of Firmware Security with Alex Matrosov
In this episode of Chips & Salsa, Jerry and CRob talk to industry experts Vincent Zimmer, Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel, and Alex Matrosov, CEO and Founder, Binarly, about the state of firmware security in the industry today and get their thoughts on how the industry needs to improve.
Aug 2
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Yahoo
Netskope Acquires Infiot, Will Deliver Fully Integrated, Single-Vendor SASE Platform
Netskope, the leader in Security Service Edge (SSE) and Zero Trust, today announced it has acquired Infiot, a pioneer in enabling secure, reliable access with zero trust security, network and application optimization, and AI-driven operations.
Jul 27
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Telecom Reseller
Cigent is focused on data security – when it is on the endpoint, in the cloud or shared with other people
The best way to stop ransomware from occurring in your company is to protect the data. Tom Ricoy, VP Sales, Public Sector and Alliances with Cigent discussed with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication, how Cigent makes the data invisible.
Jul 22
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Fintech Global
Theta Lake, Movius partner to improve communication monitoring in messaging services
Theta Lake, a communication compliance and security solution developer, has teamed up with fellow communication security solution Movius to help companies improve compliance with collaboration tools.
Jul 19
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Binarly.io
Binarly Executives to Present on Firmware Security at Black Hat Briefings 2022
Binarly executives, CEO Alex Matrosov and CTO Claudiu Teodorescu, will present research at the Black Hat 2022 conference to discuss expanding attack surfaces in the modern system firmware boot process and major gaps in the way SIEMs and EDRs monitor endpoints for signs of attacks.
Jul 13
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Le Lezard
Uplevel Secures $20M Funding to Drive Engineering Team Efficiency And Hires Nimrod Vered as CTO
Uplevel, the leading engineering insights solution, today announced it has received $20 million in new funding.
Jun 22
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Security Week
Firmware Security Startup Binarly Raises $3.6M in Seed Funding
Firmware security company Binarly on Wednesday announced that it has raised $3.6 million in a seed funding round led by Westwave Capital and Acrobator Ventures.
Jun 1
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Gartner
Spectro Cloud named a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor for Edge Computing
Edge computing is a huge and diverse space (a glance at Topio Networks’ latest edge computing landscape map, or a read of LF Edge’s coverage is enough to prove it). As you might expect, every one of us at Spectro Cloud is thrilled and honored to be included in this Gartner report.
May 31
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TechCrunch
Data-sharing platform Vendia raises $30M Series B
Vendia, a blockchain-based platform that makes it easier for businesses to share their code and data with partners across applications, platforms and clouds, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round.
Apr 14
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VentureBeat
Blueshift to scale XDR security with $6M funding
Blueshift Cybersecurity has raised a seed round of $6 million from investors WestWave Capital and CyberJunction.
Apr 6
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Techcrunch
Docyt raises $11.5M Series A for its AI powered accounting automation service
Docyt, a startup that offers an AI-powered accounting automation platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A funding round led by Lobby Capital.
Mar 23
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BusinessWire
Spectro Cloud Closes $40 Million Series B Round to accelerate growth
Spectro Cloud, a leading platform provider of a modern Kubernetes (K8s) management platform, today announced the closing of a $40 million Series B funding round, led by New York City-based Stripes, a leading investor in software and consumer products.
Mar 23
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VentureBeat
Theta Lake raises $50 Million to secure use of collaboration apps
Theta Lake, which offers a security and compliance solution for popular collaboration applications, has closed a $50 million series B funding round as the company seeks to help customers uncover risks across their digital communications.
Mar 19
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Forbes
Spectro Cloud Brings The Power Of Managed Kubernetes Platform To Edge Computing
Spectro Cloud, the Bay Area-based modern infrastructure startup, announced the availability of Palette Edge - a comprehensive platform to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale across multiple edge computing environments.
Mar 1
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TechCrunch
Prefab home builder Veev closes $400M Series D
Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.”
Feb 8
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Business Wire
Oloid closes $12 Million Series A Funding to scale
Oloid, creator of the world’s first software-based physical access technology, today announced the close of its $12 million Series A funding round, led by Dell Technologies Capital with participation from Honeywell Ventures, Okta Ventures and other previous investors.
Jan 6
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Silicon Valley Daily
Prevedere completes $25 Million financing
Prevedere, a company developing Intelligent Forecasting software using AI, has completed $25 million in financing.
Dec 20
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VentureBeat
Mperativ raises $6 Million for new revenue analytics platform
Today, Mperativ announced it raised $6 million in funding to launch a revenue operations platform.
Oct 19
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Mastercard
Mastercard Strengthens Digital Asset Security with Close of CipherTrace Acquisition
Mastercard today announced it has completed its acquisition of CipherTrace, a leading cryptocurrency intelligence company that offers digital asset security and fraud solutions for some of the world’s largest banks, exchanges and other financial institutions.
Oct 7
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TechCrunch
Solo.io reaches $1B valuation with $135M Series C investment
Solo.io, a Cambridge, Massachusetts service mesh startup, announced a $135 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation. Altimeter Capital led today’s round, with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures.
Oct 4
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Globe Newswire
Fullcast Raises $4M in Series A Funding to Accelerate its Growth as the Only End-to-End RevOps Platform
Fullcast announced that it closed $4M in Series A funding. Fullcast was created specifically to bring together all of the moving pieces of a sales Go-To-Market (GTM) by experts who fully understand both the Salesforce product and the need for smoother integration. Fullcast empowers leading SaaS companies to plan, execute, and analyze their GTM strategy.
Oct 1
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WIU Alumni Magazine, pg 25
In Search of the Next Challenge (a profile on our partner Bunny Weiss)
A ‘21 Jump Street’ internship experience for Western Illinois University law enforcement alumnus Warren “Bunny” Weiss ’78 paved the way for a job in the 1990s with the granddaddy of the computer world ... the late Steve Jobs.
Sep 30
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CloudEntity
CloudEntity Appoints Jason Needham as CEO
Cloudentity, a leading provider of modern application authorization and consent solutions, today announced the appointment of Jason Needham as chief executive officer and member of its board of directors. Needham brings over 25 years of leadership experience across application networking, IT automation, cloud security and SaaS solutions to his role at Cloudentity, where he will lead the company during its accelerated growth period.
Sep 22
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Spectro Cloud
Spectro Cloud Announces 2021 Annual Kubernetes Adoption Report Findings
Conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored by Spectro Cloud, the report differs from other Kubernetes studies as it has an executive and production focus — surfacing the massive influx of Kubernetes adoption, and the associated challenges organizations still experience
Sep 22
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Candor Ventures
Venture Candor with Bunny
We get to make two important decisions: one is the market we invest in, and the other is the CEO & founding team. If we get either of these wrong, we aren't going to have a good investment.
Sep 21
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VentureBeat
OneTrust acquires Tugboat Logic to automate InfoSec assurance and certification
Data privacy, governance, and compliance platform OneTrust has announced plans to acquire Tugboat Logic, a platform that companies use to garner security certifications such as ISO 27001.
Sep 13
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MarketWatch
Tenable to Buy Accurics for About $160M in Cash
Cyber-exposure company Tenable Inc. has agreed to buy Accurics Inc., which said its platform enables the detection and mitigation of risks in the so-called infrastructure as code, for about $160 million in cash.
Sep 9
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CNBC
Mastercard makes a big bet on crypto, buying blockchain analytics start-up CipherTrace
Mastercard has agreed to acquire blockchain analytics start-up CipherTrace, in the latest sign of how major companies are warming to cryptocurrencies.
Aug 23
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The Progress
Autonomous Vehicle Insurtech Koop Technologies Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round
Koop Technologies, an insurance technology startup specializing in autonomous vehicle and robotics risks, has announced its $2.5M seed funding. Koop will use this capital to bring its data-driven insurance platform to more customers in the autonomous vehicle and robotics industries.
Aug 23
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VentureBeat
Autonomous car insurance drives new opportunities
Koop Technologies, which is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is developing what it calls an “API-powered” insurance platform for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and “machine-centric” risks.
Aug 21
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SramanaMitra
542nd Roundtable Recording with Warren Weiss, WestWave Capital
Podcast discussion with Warren Weiss, founder and partner at WestWave Capital.
Aug 12
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Yahoo! Finance
prezent.ai Raises $4.3 Million to launch Presentation Productivity Platform for Enterprise Teams
prezent.ai, the presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams, today announced it has raised $4.3 million in seed capital. prezent.ai empowers enterprise teams to create hyper-personalized business presentations fast and distribute them instantly. The company is founded by ex-Cisco Senior Vice President Rajat Mishra, who serves as its CEO
Jul 28
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PR Newswire
OnSpecta announces agreement to be acquired by Ampere Computing
Ampere® Computing today announced it has agreed to acquire AI technology startup OnSpecta, strengthening Ampere® Altra® performance with AI inference applications. The OnSpecta Deep Learning Software (DLS) AI optimization engine can deliver significant performance enhancements over commonly used CPU-based machine learning (ML) frameworks.
Jul 27
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Business Wire
Spectro Cloud raises $20M Series A round
Spectro Cloud, a next-gen Kubernetes enterprise management platform that makes it easy for teams to manage the full lifecycle of any combination of new and existing Kubernetes environments on any data center or cloud environment, today announced the completion of its Series A funding round, amounting to $20M, which is led by Stripes, a leading investor in software and consumer products.
Jul 1
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CoinDesk
Binance Deploys CipherTrace Tool for Travel Rule Compliance
Binance said it is using crypto intelligence firm CipherTrace’s “Traveler” product to help it comply with global “travel rule” regulations.
Jun 28
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CIO Review
Accurics Announces Partnership with GitLab
Accurics makes use of GitLab’s connection to give DevSecOps teams a holistic, contextualized view of application and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Jun 23
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The Loops
TheLoops Secures $8.75M in Seed Funding to Reinvent Support Operations for Modern SaaS Businesses
TheLoops, an intelligent support operations platform, today announced it has closed $8.5 million in a seed funding round led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Tidal Ventures and Westwave Capital.
Jun 8
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Business Wire
Vendia Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing
Vendia, a multi-party application development platform for sharing code and data in real time, has been recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in the “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing” report by Arun Chandrasekaran, Sid Nag, and David Wright on May 13, 2021.
May 27
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CoinDesk
Binance Smart Chain Adds CipherTrace for Tracking Illicit Transactions
Decentralized finance (DeFi), or at least Binance’s version of it, is officially being given the blockchain analytics treatment, courtesy of California-based CipherTrace.