Category Archives: venture capital

Daily Crunch: How the government shutdown is damaging cybersecurity and future IPOs

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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. How Trump’s government shutdown is harming cyber and national security The government has been shut down for nearly three weeks, and […] Continue reading Daily Crunch: How the government shutdown is damaging cybersecurity and future IPOs→

Daily Crunch: Nvidia breaks with tradition at CES 2019

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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Nvidia launches the $349 GeForce RTX 2060 Nvidia broke with tradition and put a new focus on gaming at CES. Last […] Continue reading Daily Crunch: Nvidia breaks with tradition at CES 2019→

The limits of coworking

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It feels like there’s a WeWork on every street nowadays. Take a walk through midtown Manhattan (please don’t actually) and it might even seem like there are more WeWorks than office buildings. Consider this an ongoing discussion about Urban Tech, its intersection with regulation, issues of public service, and other complexities that people have full […] Continue reading The limits of coworking→

NYC’s Work-Bench announces $47M enterprise investment fund

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Work-Bench, an early stage enterprise startup venture capital firm based in New York City announced its $47 million Fund II today. It follows their initial $10 million fund. Work-Bench is itself like a venture capital investment startup. A scrappy operation run by just five enterprise industry veterans, it defies convention in a number of ways […] Continue reading NYC’s Work-Bench announces $47M enterprise investment fund→

Cove.Tool wants to solve climate change one efficient building at a time

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As the fight against climate change heats up, Cove.Tool is looking to help tackle carbon emissions one building at a time. The Atlanta-based startup provides an automated big-data platform that helps architects, engineers and contractors identify the most cost-effective ways to make buildings compliant with energy efficiency requirements. After raising an initial round earlier this […] Continue reading Cove.Tool wants to solve climate change one efficient building at a time→

Enterprise AR is an opportunity to ‘do well by doing good,’ says General Catalyst

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A founder-investor panel on augmented reality (AR) technology here at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin suggests growth hopes for the space have regrouped around enterprise use-cases, after the VR consumer hype cycle landed with yet another flop in the proverbial ‘trough of disillusionment’. Matt Miesnieks, CEO of mobile AR startup 6d.ai, conceded the space has generally been on another […] Continue reading Enterprise AR is an opportunity to ‘do well by doing good,’ says General Catalyst→

CyberGRX raises $30 million for collaborative risk auditing service

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CyberGRX, a firm that helps companies assess the risk stemming from their third-party vendors, announced that it raised $30 million in a Series C funding round on Wednesday. The Denver-based company runs an “exchange” whereby its customers — larger enterprises and the smaller firms they do business with — share data meant to help in assessing and managing cyber risk. A number of recent data breaches occurred because of security shortfalls in products like web applications or point-of-sale systems, only to spread to corporate partners’ networks. The service is akin to a credit rating agency that assesses the risk of lending money to a particular entity. The company says it “unites third parties and their customers in the fight against cyber threats,” and that their ability to mitigate supply chain risks improves as more entities join CyberGRX’s exchange. “Rather than reacting to breaches after they occur, companies need to take […]

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Our 3 favorite startups from Morgan Stanley’s 2nd Multicultural Innovation Lab Demo Day 

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The Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab, Morgan Stanley’s in-house accelerator focused on companies founded by multicultural and female entrepreneurs, hosted its second Annual Showcase and Demo Day. The event also featured companies from accelerators HearstLab, Newark Venture Partner Labs and PS27 Ventures. (Note: I was formerly employed by Morgan Stanley and have no financial ties.) The showcase represented […] Continue reading Our 3 favorite startups from Morgan Stanley’s 2nd Multicultural Innovation Lab Demo Day →

Automox raises $9.3 million in Series A for automated patch management

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Automox, a startup that provides an automated patching service, brought in $9.3 million in its Series A funding round, the company announced Tuesday. The Boulder, Colorado, company’s platform helps enterprises manage and patch the various devices and programs that run on their networks. It comes with tools that give visibility into systems and allow users to automate patching. Automox says that it serves a diverse set of customers, including Greyhound Lines, Hootsuite, NASA, Quicken,Yale University, Xerox and Dollar Shave Club. “At the heart of every corporate cyber practice are two basic questions: are all of my systems and software patched and up to date, and are those systems configured and maintained correctly?” said Automox CEO Jay Prassl, in a press release. “Imagine eliminating all those issues for corporations and organizations of every size. That is exactly what we are doing at Automox through our automated cloud platform.” TechOperators led the funding round, with […]

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