Author Archives: Ron Miller

Dropbox shifts business product focus to remote work with Spaces update

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In a September interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston talked about how the pandemic had forced the company to rethink what work means, and how his company is shifting with the new requirements of a work-from-home world. Today, the company announced broad changes to Dropbox Spaces, the product introduced last year, […] Continue reading Dropbox shifts business product focus to remote work with Spaces update→

Cato Network snags $130M Series E on $1B valuation as cloud wide area networking thrives

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Cato Networks has spent the last five years building a cloud-based wide area network that lets individuals connect to network resources regardless of where they are. When the pandemic hit, and many businesses shifted to work from home, it was the perfect moment for technology like this. Today, the company was rewarded with a $130 […] Continue reading Cato Network snags $130M Series E on $1B valuation as cloud wide area networking thrives→

Gretel announces $12M Series A to make it easier to anonymize data

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As companies work with data, one of the big obstacles they face is making sure they are not exposing personally identifiable information (PII) or other sensitive data. It usually requires a painstaking manual effort to strip out that data. Gretel, an early stage startup, wants to change that by making it faster and easier to […] Continue reading Gretel announces $12M Series A to make it easier to anonymize data→

Computer vision startup Chooch.ai scores $20M Series A

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Chooch.ai, a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today. Vickers Venture Partners led the round with participation from 212, Streamlined Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Waterman Ventures and several other unnamed investors. Today’s investment brings […] Continue reading Computer vision startup Chooch.ai scores $20M Series A→

Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation

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Menlo Security, a malware and phishing prevention startup, announced a $100 million Series E today on an $800 million valuation. The round was led by Vista Equity Partners with help from Neuberger Berman, General Catalyst, JP Morgan and other unnamed existing investors. The company has now raised approximately $250 million. CEO and co-founder Amir Ben-Efraim […] Continue reading Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation→

Solo.io announces service mesh platform aimed at enterprise customers

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Solo.io, a Cambridge, MA service mesh startup, announced some big changes to its approach today with a full-stack platform of services aimed squarely at the enterprise. The culmination of this will be Gloo Mesh Enterprise, a new product that will be available in Beta by the end of the year. Service meshes are part of […] Continue reading Solo.io announces service mesh platform aimed at enterprise customers→

Palo Alto Networks to acquire Expanse in deal worth $800M

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Palo Alto Networks has been on buying binge for the last couple of years, and today it added to its haul, announcing a deal to acquire Expanse for $800 million in cash and equity awards. The deal breaks down to $670 million in cash and stock and another $130 million in equity awards to Expanse […] Continue reading Palo Alto Networks to acquire Expanse in deal worth $800M→

Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack

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Mozart Data founders Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman have been friends for over 20 years, working at various startups, and even launching a hot sauce company together along the way. As technologists, they saw companies building a data stack over and over. They decided to provide one for them and Mozart Data was born. The […] Continue reading Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack→

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna wants to completely transform his organization

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When IBM announced it was spinning out its infrastructure services business last month, it was surely a sign that the company was going all in on hybrid cloud. Today in an interview with Jon Fortt at the CNBC Evolve summit, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna made it clear that his whole focus is going to be […] Continue reading IBM CEO Arvind Krishna wants to completely transform his organization→

Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards

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Explo, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 class, which is helping customers build customer-facing business intelligence dashboards, announced a $2.3 million seed round today. Investors included Amplo VC, Soma Capital and Y Combinator along with several individual investors. The company originally was looking at a way to simplify getting data ready for models […] Continue reading Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards→