Author Archives: Ron Miller

Britive grabs $10M Series A to build automated multi-cloud permissions tool

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Britive, an early-stage startup that is trying to bring privileged access control to a multi-cloud world, announced a $10 million Series A this morning. Crosslink Capital led the investment, with participation from previous investors Upfront Ventures and One Way Ventures. The company helps automate permissioning across multiple cloud vendors and software services, whether that involves […] Continue reading Britive grabs $10M Series A to build automated multi-cloud permissions tool→

Unbounce snags Snazzy.ai to add automated copywriting to platform

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Unbounce, a Vancouver startup best known for helping marketers create automated landing pages, added a new wrinkle this morning when it announced it has acquired Snazzy.ai, an early stage automated copywriting startup. The two companies did not share the terms. Unbounce Chief Strategy Officer Tamara Grominsky says that her company focuses on helping customers convert […] Continue reading Unbounce snags Snazzy.ai to add automated copywriting to platform→

Unbounce snags Snazzy.ai to add automated copywriting to platform

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Unbounce, a Vancouver startup best known for helping marketers create automated landing pages, added a new wrinkle this morning when it announced it has acquired Snazzy.ai, an early stage automated copywriting startup. The two companies did not share the terms. Unbounce Chief Strategy Officer Tamara Grominsky says that her company focuses on helping customers convert […] Continue reading Unbounce snags Snazzy.ai to add automated copywriting to platform→

Explorium scores $75M Series C just 10 months after B round

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Without good data, it’s impossible to build an accurate predictive machine learning model. Explorium, a company that has been building a solution over the last several years to help data pros find the best data for a given model, announced a $75 million Series C today — just 10 months after announcing a $31 million […] Continue reading Explorium scores $75M Series C just 10 months after B round→

Cisco strikes again grabbing threat assessment tool Kenna Security as third acquisition this week

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Cisco has been busy on the acquisition front this week, and today the company announced it was buying threat assessment platform Kenna Security, the third company it has purchased this week. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price. With Kenna, Cisco gets a startup that uses machine learning to sort through the massive […] Continue reading Cisco strikes again grabbing threat assessment tool Kenna Security as third acquisition this week→

New Relic is bringing in a new CEO as founder Lew Cirne moves to executive chairman role

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At the market close this afternoon ahead of its earnings report, New Relic, an applications performance monitoring company, announced that founder Lew Cirne would be stepping down as CEO and moving into the executive chairman role. At the same time, the company announced that Bill Staples, a software industry vet, would be taking over as […] Continue reading New Relic is bringing in a new CEO as founder Lew Cirne moves to executive chairman role→

Busy day at VMware ended yesterday with Ragurham as CEO and COO Poonen exiting

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They say for every door that opens another closes and the executive shuffle at VMware is certainly proving that old chestnut true. Four months after Pat Gelsinger stepped down as CEO to return to run Intel, the virtual machine pioneer announced yesterday that long-time exec Raghu Raghuram was taking over that role. That set in […] Continue reading Busy day at VMware ended yesterday with Ragurham as CEO and COO Poonen exiting→

BluBracket nabs $12M Series A to expand source code security platform

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BluBracket, an early stage startup that focuses on keeping source code repositories secure, even in distributed environments, announced a $12 million Series A today. Evolution Equity Partners led the round with help from existing investors Unusual Ventures, Point72 Ventures, SignalFire and Firebolt Ventures. When combined with the $6.5 million seed round we reported on last […] Continue reading BluBracket nabs $12M Series A to expand source code security platform→

AWS releases tool to open source that turns on-prem software into SaaS

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AWS announced today that it’s releasing a tool called AWS SaaS Boost as open source distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool, which was first announced at the AWS:re:Invent conference last year, is designed to help companies transform their on-prem software into cloud-based Software as a Service In the charter for the software, the […] Continue reading AWS releases tool to open source that turns on-prem software into SaaS→