Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

SentinelOne raises $200M at a $1.1B valuation to expand its AI-based endpoint security platform

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As cybercrime continues to evolve and expand, a startup that is building a business focused on endpoint security has raised a big round of funding. SentinelOne — which provides a machine learning-based solution for monitoring and securing laptops, phones, containerised applications and the many other devices and services connected to a network — has picked up […] Continue reading SentinelOne raises $200M at a $1.1B valuation to expand its AI-based endpoint security platform→

Aiven raises $40M to democratize access to open source projects through managed cloud services

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The growing ubiquity of open source software has been a big theme in the evolution of enterprise IT. But behind that facade of popularity lies another kind of truth: companies may be interested in using more open-source technology, but since there is a learning curve with taking on an source project, not all of them […] Continue reading Aiven raises $40M to democratize access to open source projects through managed cloud services→

Emerge raises $20M to take its digital freight marketplace for truckers up a gear

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Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the US, accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. But with thousands of small and single-vehicle operators and legacy (often paper-based) systems underpinning communications, it’s also one of the most inefficient. Now, there […] Continue reading Emerge raises $20M to take its digital freight marketplace for truckers up a gear→

Nomagic, a startup out of Poland, picks up $8.6M for its pick-and-place warehouse robots

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Factories and warehouses have been two of the biggest markets for robots in the last several years, with machines taking on mundane, if limited, processes to speed up work and free up humans to do other, more complex tasks. Now, a startup out of Poland that is widening the scope of what those robots can […] Continue reading Nomagic, a startup out of Poland, picks up $8.6M for its pick-and-place warehouse robots→

Chicago’s ActiveCampaign raises $100M for an all-in-one marketing and sales automation platform

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Marketing and sales automation — tools that leverage the advances and data of our digital age to better identify and then interact with customers — is big business, with the whole market expected to generate some $6.6 billion in revenues for related companies by 2025. But “companies” is the operative word here: it’s a very […] Continue reading Chicago’s ActiveCampaign raises $100M for an all-in-one marketing and sales automation platform→

Persona raises $17.5M for an identify verification platform that goes beyond user IDs and passwords

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The proliferation of data breaches based on leaked passwords, and the rising tide of regulation that puts a hard stop on just how much user information can be collected, stored and used by companies have laid bare the holes in simple password and memorable-information-based verification systems. Today a startup called Persona, which has built a […] Continue reading Persona raises $17.5M for an identify verification platform that goes beyond user IDs and passwords→

Cloud services provider DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected

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After appointing a new CEO and CFO last summer, cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean is embarking on a wider reorganisation: the startup has announced a round of layoffs, with potentially between 30 and 50 people affected. DigitalOcean has confirmed the news with the following statement: “DigitalOcean recently announced a restructuring to better align its teams to its […] Continue reading Cloud services provider DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected→

Sisense nabs $100m at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics

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Sisense, an enterprise startup that that has built a business analytics business out of the premise of making big data as accessible as possible to users — whether it be through graphics on mobile or desktop apps, or spoken through Alexa — is announcing a big round of funding today and a large jump in […] Continue reading Sisense nabs $100m at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics→

Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more

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Software will eat the world, as the saying goes, but in doing so, some developers are likely to get a little indigestion. That is to say, building products requires working with disparate and distributed teams, and while developers may have an ever-growing array of algorithms, APIs and technology at their disposal to do this, ironically […] Continue reading Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more→

Celonis, a leader in big data process mining for enterprises, nabs $290M on a $2.5B valuation

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More than $1 trillion is spent by enterprises annually on “digital transformation” — the investments that organizations make to update their IT systems to get more out of them and reduce costs — and today one of the bigger startups that’s built a platform to help get the ball rolling is announcing a huge round […] Continue reading Celonis, a leader in big data process mining for enterprises, nabs $290M on a $2.5B valuation→