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Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is finally taking the wraps off the new venture: Begin, an intelligent app designed … Continue reading Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack
Last week, we reported that UiPath, a startup out of Romania building AI-based services for enterprises in the area of robotic process automation (RPA) — helping businesses automate mundane tasks in back-office IT systems — was about … Continue reading UiPath confirms $153M at $1.1B valuation from Accel, CapitalG and KP for its “software robots”
Falcon.io, a startup out of Denmark that helps businesses manage their presence across social media and messaging platforms, has acquired a competitor in a wider trend of consolidation in the market for such services. It is buying Komfo from cust… Continue reading Falcon.io buys Komfo from Sitecore as social media management consolidates
With the trend of growing cybercrime showing no indication of abating, a startup called Vectra that has built an artificial intelligence-based system called Cognito to detect cyberattacks and mobilise security systems to respond to them has raise… Continue reading Vectra raises $36M for its AI-based approach to cybersecurity intrusion detection
Last year, when tech-company database Crunchbase (once a part of TechCrunch but since spun out) announced a funding round of $18 million, it previewed plans for a new marketplace where it would sell access to third-party data to supplement its ow… Continue reading Crunchbase opens a marketplace for 3rd-party data in bid to be the ‘master database for companies’
Rubrik, the enterprise startup that provides data backup and recovery services across cloud and on-premise environments, is putting some of the funding that it raised last year at a $1.3 billion valuation to use. Rubrik has acquired NoSQL data ba… Continue reading Rubrik acquires Datos IO to expand into NoSQL database management support
Relocation, relocation, relocation, as the saying (sort of) goes. On the heels of raising $48 million last year to tap into the growing needs of businesses to handle global workforces (a huge if sometimes controversial area of the job market), Mo… Continue reading Move Guides acquires Polaris Global Mobility to expand services for expats and relocation
Another startup in the area of cyber security has been snapped up as platform businesses serving enterprises look for more ways of securing their own networks and working with customers to secure theirs. Today, the RELX Group (formerly known as R… Continue reading Relx acquires ThreatMetrix for $817M to ramp up in risk-based authentication
Element.AI — which last year raised $102 million from the likes of Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia and more to build an incubator-meets-consultancy to work with multiple businesses as they launch new services and systems based on artificial intell… Continue reading Element.AI opens London outpost with focus on ‘AI for good’
Element.AI — which last year raised $102 million from the likes of Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia and more to build an incubator-meets-consultancy to work with multiple businesses as they launch new services and systems based on artificial intell… Continue reading Element.AI opens London outpost with focus on ‘AI for good’