Censys Banks $75M for Attack Surface Management Technology

Michigan startup raises $75 million in new funding as venture capital investors bet big on attack surface management technologies.
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Anthony Lin named permanent managing director and head of Intel Capital

When Wendell Brooks stepped down as managing partner and head of Intel Capital last August, Anthony Lin was named to replace him on an interim basis. At the time, it wasn’t clear if he would be given the role permanently, but today, six months later, the answer is known. In a letter to the firm’s […] Continue reading Anthony Lin named permanent managing director and head of Intel Capital

MIT CSAIL grad launches machine learning platform with $10M Series A

Manasi Vartak, founder and CEO of Verta, conceived of the idea of the open source project ModelDB database as a way to track versions of machine models while she was still in grad school at MIT. After she graduated, she decided to expand on that vision to build a product that could not only track […] Continue reading MIT CSAIL grad launches machine learning platform with $10M Series A

Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital

When Wendell Brooks was promoted to president of Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chip giant in 2014, he knew he had big shoes to fill. He was taking over from Arvind Sodhani, who had run the investment component for 28 years since its inception. Today, the company confirmed reports that he has resigned […] Continue reading Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital

Anodot grabs $35M Series C to help monitor business operations

Anodot, a startup that helps customers monitor business operations against a set of KPIs, announced a $35 million Series C investment today. Intel Capital led this round with a lot of help. New investors SoftBank Ventures Asia, Samsung NEXT and La Maison also participated along with existing investors Disruptive Technologies L.P., Aleph Venture Capital and […] Continue reading Anodot grabs $35M Series C to help monitor business operations

Model9 gets $9M Series A to move data between mainframes and cloud

Model9, an Israeli startup launched by mainframe vets, has come up with a way to transfer data between mainframe computers and the cloud, and today the company announced a $9 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round with help from existing investors including StageOne, North First Ventures and Glenrock Israel. The company reports it […] Continue reading Model9 gets $9M Series A to move data between mainframes and cloud

A 23-year-old B2B company has shown how keen India is for tech IPOs

Away from the limelight of the press and the frenzy of fundraising, a tech startup in India has achieved a feat that few of its peers have managed: going public. IndiaMART, the country’s largest online platform for selling products directly to businesses, raised nearly $70 million in a rare tech IPO for India this week. […] Continue reading A 23-year-old B2B company has shown how keen India is for tech IPOs

Pixeom raises $15M for its software-defined edge computing platform

Pixeom, a startup that offers a software-defined edge computing platform to enterprises, today announced that it has raised a $15M funding round from Intel Capital, National Grid Partners and previous investor Samsung Catalyst Fund. The company plans to use the new funding to expands its go-to-market capacity and invest in product development. If the Pixeom […] Continue reading Pixeom raises $15M for its software-defined edge computing platform

Chicago RPA startup Catalytic hauls in $30M Series B

Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is as hot as any enterprise technology at the moment, as companies look for ways to marry their legacy systems with a more modern flavor of automation. Catalytic, a startup from the midwest is putting its own flavor on RPA, aiming at more unstructured data. Today it was rewarded with a […] Continue reading Chicago RPA startup Catalytic hauls in $30M Series B

Fortanix raises $23 million in funding for cloud security and encryption

Fortanix, a cloud security company, announced Wednesday that it raised $23 million in a Series B funding round led by Intel Capital with participation from past investors Foundation Capital and Neotribe. The company offers two main platforms that are meant to protect the data clients use and the various keys they need to run their applications. The products are aimed at enterprises that rely on cloud services for their infrastructure and containerization to run their applications. Intel Capital’s director, Sunil Kurkure, is joining the Fortanix’s board of directors as part of the deal. The company’s Self-Defending Key Management Service is designed to protect the sensitive information customers needed to run their systems securely, like cryptographic data, API keys, passwords, tokens and others. The Runtime Encryption platform is meant to protect data while it’s in-use “in untrusted environments such as the public cloud and remote clouds.” “Fortanix uniquely helps protect encryption keys, databases, machine learning algorithms, and containers to help secure organizations’ data […]

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