TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

California-based Baffle, a startup that aims to prevent data breaches by keeping data encrypted from production through processing, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Baffle was founded in 2015 to help thwart the increasing threats to enterprise assets in public and private clouds.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). There are other startups across the world that offer solutions and services similar to Cropin. billion by 2028, from $921.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Opaque , a new startup born out of Berkeley’s RISELabs , announced a $9.5 million seed round today to build a solution to access and work with sensitive data in the cloud in a secure way, even with multiple organizations involved. Data is the world’s most valuable (and vulnerable) resource.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

This leaves us vulnerable to security threats like phishing, identity theft and session hijacking, but many cybersecurity tools were created when the main threats were file viruses, worms and network attacks, said Vivek Ramachandran , the cybersecurity entrepreneur and researcher who discovered the Cafe Latte attack.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Steve Zalewski Contributor Share on Twitter Steve Zalewski is the former CISO of Levi Strauss and the founder of S3 Consulting, an executive advisory practice to security companies and VC firms on product-market-fit and go-to-market strategy for security startups. How does your solution help me sell more X?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Samooha , a startup developing a “cross-cloud” data collaboration platform, today announced that it raised $12.5 In brief, the platform lets businesses securely share, collaborate on and gain insights from their and their partners’ data, regardless of the underlying cloud and data stack.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Containers and micro services may not be a new concept at this point, but lots of companies are struggling with the transition to cloud native applications, and the impact of that approach on their security. That requires a comprehensive approach to keep the application secure. “It’s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Veriti’s launch comes as VCs continue to show enthusiasm for cybersecurity startups despite the generally unfavorable funding climate. According to PitchBook data, venture capital investments in the security sector this year eclipsed $13.66 “Enterprise security posture is usually sub-optimal. . billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The startup, which is launching today and can be used on premise or in the cloud, alleviates the hassle of finding and scaling physical and cloud infrastructure for testing. We know the solution for this was first step automating the applications and then step two was running it on different form factors,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service. And with Cloud Hawk, Cloud Secure and CloudCheckr, we now deliver SecOps. NetApp to acquire Spot (formerly Spotinst) to gain cloud infrastructure management tools.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. The company says its current list of users includes the likes of DoorDash, Zillow and Visa, with Robinhood, Obsidian Security and Astronomer also now using its service. ” In a recent report , the company argued that it could save its customers an average of $4.9

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Censys , a search engine for Internet of Things devices and internet assets, has secured $35 million in Series B funding and a new CEO. The company’s Series B investment, which comes after the startup secured $15.5 Department of Homeland Security. . The company is currently in the classic hyper-growth situation.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Three years ago, IT leaders were squarely focused on how to adopt fledgling AI techniques and approaches into their business models in service of digital transformations that included plans for shifting some workloads to the cloud. We need to improve overall performance while we adapt to the changing business environment,” Liu says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. And the company’s revenue has increased 350% over the past year. million in equity and $19.5

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Most people have probably broken their new year’s resolutions by now, but here’s one I plan to stick with: resetting my passwords and rethinking the strategy behind password management solutions. If you work in information security, you already know how severe the LastPass breach of security , announced in late December 2022, was.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the enterprise device supply chain grows increasingly global and fragmented, it’s becoming more challenging for organizations to secure their hardware and software from suppliers. Eclypsium’s cloud management dashboard Image Credits: Eclypsium.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The company today announced that it secured $401 million in convertible notes from Owl Rock with participation from new and existing investors Viking Global Investors, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Neuberger Berman. This week, Crunchbase further noted that while cyber startups saw more funding in H2 than all of 2020 ($8.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

CEO Dmitry Dontov said that fresh capital — which values Spin at $55 million post-money — will be put toward supporting growth, expanding Spin’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, and growing the startup’s marketing, sales and engineering teams. Image Credits: Spin Technology. billion in 2021. ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Most eventually will, but like many aspects of startup operations, this gap won’t be filled until it’s absolutely necessary. In the meantime, someone needs to make fundamental decisions regarding cloud infrastructure and strategy. What are they willing to sacrifice for their current solution?

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Startups said no to SQL and used Hadoop—SQL was kind of lame back then, for reasons that in hindsight appear absurd.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Digital platforms and technologies are transforming healthcare by providing secure, seamless access to disjointed islands of data and siloed technology. How the move toward API-type economies can accelerate delivery of solutions, increase customization capabilities, and improve integration across different systems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. Looking to solve some of the challenges around authentication, Keith Graham and Stephen Cox co-founded Strivacity , a startup that allows companies to create secure business-to-business and business-to-consumer sign-in experiences.

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

“Startup” means risk. Cisco sets aside space for an innovative team operating with a startup mindset. More than an experimental group, they hold themselves accountable the same way any startup should. This unique division focuses on new solutions, new markets, and innovative problem-solving. Why not both?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Deploying public LLMs Dig Security is an Israeli cloud data security company, and its engineers use ChatGPT to write code. Dig Security addresses this possibility in two ways. First, the company uses a secure gateway to check what information is being uploaded. There’s no perfect solution. It’s blocked.”

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

For Jim McCullen, CIO of Century Supply Chain Solutions, doing so effectively for the past several years has meant a lot of IT work on the fly. First was expediting a final push to move all remaining servers into the cloud for scalability, stability, and security.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. ” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

InfoSum, a London-based startup that provides a decentralized platform for secure data sharing between organizations, has secured a $65 million Series B funding round led by Chrysalis Investments. The investment comes less than a year after InfoSum closed a $15.1 million Series A round co-led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months. Shaked worked for some time at Magic Leap.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 11, 2024

AWS was the first Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to offer NVIDIA GPUs in the public cloud, and remains among the first to deploy NVIDIA’s latest technologies. NVIDIA is known for its cutting-edge accelerators and full-stack solutions that contribute to advancements in AI.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Cybersecurity startup Hunters today announced that it has raised a $68 million Series C round led by Stripes. As Hunters co-founder and CEO Uri May told me, since its Series B round, the team doubled down on helping enterprises replace traditional Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) solutions with its own tools.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Network security is top of mind for almost every business. The trend of using cloud infrastructure and digital transformation for improved efficiency often puts sensitive data at risk. Startups and large corporations alike will need to focus on emerging security solutions that can protect their hardware and software.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Most companies have worked hard over the years to produce strong and secure internet connections in the office, but over the last several years in particular, as more employees have been working away from the office, it’s been difficult for IT pros to reproduce that speed and safety. The startup has created three components to the solution.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Cloudflare has announced that it plans to acquire Area 1 Security , a security startup that has developed a product that stops phishing attacks before they land in an employee’s inbox. Cloudflare has developed its own suite of security products with a zero trust security model.

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Lacework

JANUARY 17, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) four-day incident reporting requirement and high-profile legal cases, the accountability and risk associated with CISOs’ roles have intensified. Instrumental in Alkami’s IPO success, he expertly scaled their security for rapid industry growth. Meet the 50 CISOs to Watch in 2024.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Cloud-based point of sales for small, medium and large-sized restaurants has increased tremendously in both size and popularity. But a few startups are paying attention to the market, positioning themselves to become top players when it matures. One such startup is Nigeria’s Orda , formerly known as StarKitchens.

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