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It’s down to the wire folks. Today’s the last day you can save $100 on your ticket to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019, which takes place on September 5 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The deadline expires in mere hours — at 11:59 p.m. (PT). Get the best possible price and buy your early-bird ticket […] Continue reading Last chance for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Japanese multinational SoftBank will invest $200 million in Cybereason, doubling the Boston-based security vendor’s investment total as it marches toward an initial public offering. The deal brings Cybereason’s total funding to $400 million after prior investments from SoftBank, CRV, Spark Capital and Lockheed Martin. The company, founded in 2012 by former members of the Israeli Defense Forces signals intelligence unit, provides endpoint detection services, competing with the likes of Symantec, McAfee and CrowdStrike. This $200 million in Series E funding comes as part of Cybereason’s plan to invest in new services and find new clients, then go public within two years, said CEO Lior Div. “We took the money in order to build a bigger company than we are right now,” Div said on Monday. “Right now we have 500 people in the company, and this plan is to push to even more in order to be ready to go […]
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Kabbage, the AI-based small business loans platform backed by Softbank and others, is adding more firepower to its lending machine: the Atlanta-based startup has secured an additional $200 million in the form of a revolving credit facility from an unnamed subsidiary of a large life insurance company, managed and administered by 20 Gates Management, and […] Continue reading Kabbage secures $200M to fuel its AI-based loans platform for small businesses
How founders are taking on housing costs worldwide. Continue reading Market map: the 200+ innovative startups transforming affordable housing
A look at hundreds of startups rebuilding affordable housing from the ground up. Continue reading Innovations in inclusive housing
Slack discloses latest earnings, plans NYSE direct listing for June 20. Continue reading Slack aims to be the most important software company in the world, says CEO
Slack will make its pitch to prospective shareholders on Monday at an invite-only event in New York City. Continue reading Slack to live stream pitch to shareholders on Monday ahead of direct listing
The company has taken its first official step toward a rumored direct listing. Continue reading Workplace messaging platform Slack has confidentially filed to go public
There’s another big financing round led by Softbank’s mammoth vision fund today, with the firm this time pouring $865 million into a construction startup called Katerra that’s a one-stop shop for getting a building up off the gr… Continue reading Construction startup Katerra gets $865M in Softbank’s latest mega-round
With a shortage of machine learning developers bearing down on the industry, startups and big tech companies alike are moving to democratize the tools necessary to commercialize artificial intelligence. The latest startup, Petuum, is announcing a $93 million Series B this morning from Softbank and Advantech Capital.
Founded last year by Dr. Eric Xing, a Carnegie Mellon machine learning… Read More Continue reading Petuum secures $93M Series B to push AI into the mainstream