Author Archives: Ron Miller

Kandji nabs $60M Series B as Apple device management platform continues to thrive

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During the pandemic, having an automated solution for onboarding and updating Apple devices remotely has been essential, and today Kandji, a startup that helps IT do just that, announced a hefty $60 million Series B investment. Felicis Ventures led the round with participation from SVB Capital, Greycroft, Okta Ventures and The Spruce House Partnership. Today’s […] Continue reading Kandji nabs $60M Series B as Apple device management platform continues to thrive→

With $30M extension, BigID boosts Series D to $100M at $1.25B valuation

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When we last heard from BigID at the end of 2020, the company was announcing a $70 million Series D at a $1 billion valuation. Today, it announced a $30 million extension on that deal valuing the company at $1.25 billion just 4 months later. This chunk of money comes from private equity firm Advent […] Continue reading With $30M extension, BigID boosts Series D to $100M at $1.25B valuation→

IBM breaks latest revenue losing streak as cloud revenue shows modest growth

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For IBM, much of the last 8 years simply posting positive revenue growth was a challenge. In fact, the company had a period between 2013 and 2018 when it experienced an astonishing 22 straight quarters of negative revenue growth. So when Big Blue reported yesterday that revenue was up slightly, I’m sure the company took […] Continue reading IBM breaks latest revenue losing streak as cloud revenue shows modest growth→

Cape Privacy announces $20M Series A to help companies securely share data

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Cape Privacy, the early stage startup that wants to make it easier for companies to share sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way, announced a $20 million Series A today. Evolution Equity Partners led the round with participation from new investors Tiger Global Management, Ridgeline Partners and Downing Lane. Existing investors Boldstart Ventures, Version […] Continue reading Cape Privacy announces $20M Series A to help companies securely share data→

Tecton teams with founder of Feast open source machine learning feature store

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Tecton, the company that pioneered the notion of the machine learning feature store, has teamed up with the founder of the open source feature store project called Feast. Today the company announced the release of version 0.10 of the open source tool. The feature store is a concept that the Tecton founders came up with […] Continue reading Tecton teams with founder of Feast open source machine learning feature store→

BigEye (formerly Toro) scores $17M Series A to automate data quality monitoring

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As companies create machine learning models, the operations team needs to ensure the data used for the model is of sufficient quality, a process that can be time consuming. BigEye (formerly Toro), an early stage startup is helping by automating data quality. Today the company announced a $17 million Series A led Sequoia Capital with […] Continue reading BigEye (formerly Toro) scores $17M Series A to automate data quality monitoring→

Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company

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Dell announced this afternoon that it’s spinning out VMware, a move that has been suspected for some time. Dell, acquired VMware as part of the massive $58 billion EMC acquisition (announced as $67 billion) in 2015. The way that the deal works is that Dell plans to offer VMware shareholders a special dividend of between […] Continue reading Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company→

Zoho launches new low code workflow automation product

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Workflow automation has been one of the key trends this year so far, and Zoho, a company known for its suite of affordable business tools has joined the parade with a new low code workflow product called Qntrl (pronounced control). Zoho’s Rodrigo Vaca, who is in charge of Qntrl’s marketing says that most of the […] Continue reading Zoho launches new low code workflow automation product→