Author Archives: Ron Miller

Cisco to acquire Indy startup Socio to bring hybrid events to Webex

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Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Indianapolis-based startup Socio, which helps plan hybrid in-person and virtual events. The two companies did not share the purchase price. Socio provides a missing hybrid event management component for the company to add to its Webex platform. The goal appears to be to combine this with […] Continue reading Cisco to acquire Indy startup Socio to bring hybrid events to Webex→

Salesforce is bringing drag and drop interactive components to its low-code toolkit

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Low code and no code tools abound these days, as the industry attempts to give non-technical end users the ability to create applications without code (or very little anyway). Salesforce has been a big proponent of this approach to help reduce the complexity of working on its platform, and today the CRM giant announced a […] Continue reading Salesforce is bringing drag and drop interactive components to its low-code toolkit→

Jamf snags zero trust security startup Wandera for $400M

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Jamf, the enterprise Apple device management company, announced that it was acquiring Wandera, a zero trust security startup, for $400 million at the market close today. Today’s purchase is the largest in the company’s history. Jamf provides IT at large organizations with a set of management services for Apple devices. It is the leader in […] Continue reading Jamf snags zero trust security startup Wandera for $400M→

DataRobot expands platform and announces Zepl acquisition

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DataRobot, the Boston-based automated machine learning startup, had a bushel of announcements this morning as it expanded its platform to give technical and non-technical users alike something new. It also announced it has acquired Zepl, giving it an advanced development environment where data scientists can bring their own code to DataRobot. The two companies did […] Continue reading DataRobot expands platform and announces Zepl acquisition→

ServiceNow leaps into applications performance monitoring with Lightstep acquisition

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This morning ServiceNow announced that it was acquiring Lightstep, an applications performance monitoring startup that has raised over $70 million, according to Crunchbase data. The companies did not share the acquisition price. ServiceNow wants to take advantage of Lightstep’s capabilities to enhance its IT operations offerings. With Lightstep, the company should be able to provide […] Continue reading ServiceNow leaps into applications performance monitoring with Lightstep acquisition→

Activist investor Starboard Value makes official bid for Box board seats in letter

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Last week activist investor Starboard delivered a public letter rebuking the company for what it perceives as under performance. Today the firm, which owns 8% of Box stock, making it the company’s largest stock holder, took it a step further with an official slate of four candidates it will be putting up at the next […] Continue reading Activist investor Starboard Value makes official bid for Box board seats in letter→

Emerging open cloud security framework has backing of Microsoft, Google and IBM

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Each of the big cloud platforms has its own methodology for passing on security information to logging and security platforms, leaving it to the vendors to find proprietary ways to translate that into a format that works for their tool. The Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF), a new working group that includes Microsoft, Google and […] Continue reading Emerging open cloud security framework has backing of Microsoft, Google and IBM→

Timescale grabs $40M Series B as it goes all in on cloud version of time series database

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Timescale, makers of the open source TimescaleDB time series database, announced a $40 million Series B financing round today. The investment comes just over two years after it got a $15 million Series A. Redpoint Ventures led today’s round with help from existing investors Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Icon Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures. The […] Continue reading Timescale grabs $40M Series B as it goes all in on cloud version of time series database→

Evening Fund debuts with $2M micro fund focused on investments between $50K and $100K

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We tend to think of venture capital in tens or hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars, so it’s refreshing to find Evening Fund, a new $2 million micro fund that focuses on small investments between $50,000 and $100,000 as it seeks to help young startups that may be struggling to find funding elsewhere. The […] Continue reading Evening Fund debuts with $2M micro fund focused on investments between $50K and $100K→