Start-ups

Teridion, a start-up headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Petah Tikva, Israel, closed $9 million in financing, for its cloud-based WAN service. The funding round was led by Jerusalem...

Aqua Security, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, Israel, announced $62 million in Series C funding for its cloud-native security solutions. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides visibility and security...

Intel Capital announced new investments totaling $117 million in the following 14 startups: AI Cloudpick Limited (Shanghai, China) is a smart retail technology provider. With proprietary computer vision, deep learning,...

Portworx, a start-up based in Los Altos, California, announced $27 million in Series C funding to support its cloud-native storage and data management solutions. Portworx reduces storage, compute and infrastructure...

Cohesity, which specializes in hyperconverged secondary storage, has formed a joint venture with SoftBank Corp. to offer services in Japan. Secondary data includes data used for backups, archives, analytics, testing...

Determined AI, a start-up based in San Francisco, emerged from stealth to unveil its plans to offer specialized software that addresses the challenges faced by deep learning. Determined AI has...

NTT DOCOMO Ventures has made an equity investment in Shoof Technologies, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California that is developing advanced wireless technology designed for the Industrial IoT. Shoof claims...

Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce and fintech company and soon to be the operator of Japan’s newest mobile network, will make a strategic investment in Altiostar Networks, a start-up based in...

Databricks, a start-up based in San Francisco that was founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, raised $250 million in a Series E funding for its unified analytics solutions....

Intel Capital announced investments in three startups: Catalytic (Chicago) -- offers a SaaS intelligent automation platform that can remove many of a business’ manual data processing tasks. The platform has...

Platform9, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced a fully managed Kubernetes service on VMware vSphere with Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK). Platform9 says its solution eliminates the operational complexity of...

Arrcus, a start-up offering an independent, Linux-based network operating system, announced support for multiple 400GbE and high-density 100GbE switching platforms. ArcOS is a modular, extensible microservices-based networking software for building...

Confluent, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, announced $125 million in Series D funding for its live data streaming solutions based on Apache Kafka technology. The founders of Confluent...