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TrueFort snares $30M Series B to expand zero trust application security solution

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As companies try to navigate an ever-changing security landscape, it can be challenging to protect everything. Security startup TrueFort has built a zero trust solution focusing on protecting enterprise applications. Today, the company announced a $30 million Series B. Shasta Ventures led today’s round with participation from new firms Canaan and Ericsson Ventures along with […] Continue reading TrueFort snares $30M Series B to expand zero trust application security solution→

Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M

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Kapwing is a laymen’s Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text or subtitles to a video? Trim or crop or loop or frame or rotate or soundtrack or… Then you need Kapwing. The free web and mobile tool […] Continue reading Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M→

Prodly announces $3.5M seed to automate low-code cloud deployments

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Low-code programming is supposed to make things easier on companies, right? Low-code means you can count on trained administrators instead of more expensive software engineers to handle most tasks, but like any issue solved by technology, there are always unintended consequences. While running his former company, Steelbrick, which he sold to Salesforce in 2015 for […] Continue reading Prodly announces $3.5M seed to automate low-code cloud deployments→

Shasta Ventures is doubling down on security startups with 3 new hires

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Shasta has hired former Symantec GM Balaji Yelamanchili, former Salesforce CISO Izak Mutlu and longtime enterprise software exec Drew Harman to focus on security. Continue reading Shasta Ventures is doubling down on security startups with 3 new hires→

Entelo steps up its AI game with $20M Series C 

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 The race to crown a winner in the AI-powered recruiting software space is on. With both Workey and Mya nabbing rounds in the last few weeks, the timing is prime for a few players to seek advantage in the form of growth capital. This seems to be exactly what Entelo, a six year old player in the space, is doing. The company is announcing a $20 million Series C round of financing today led by U.S. Read More Continue reading Entelo steps up its AI game with $20M Series C →