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Telefónica is launched a new investment vehicle to foster cybersecurity startups. Telefónica Tech Ventures, which is promoted by Telefónica ElevenPaths cybersecurity company and Telefónica…
Alkira, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced $54 million in Series B funding for its global network cloud delivered as-a-service. Alkira’s Cloud…
Rockley Photonics, a start-up specializing in integrated optical chips and modules, has closed an additional $50 million of growth funding from leading deep-tech VCs,…
HAPSMobile, a start-up backed by SoftBank with minority investment by AeroVironment, reached an altitude of 62,500 feet (approximately 19 kilometers) during the fifth test…
Arista Networks agreed to acquire Awake Security, a start-up offering a Network Detection and Response (NDR) platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. Awake, which…
Snowflake, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, completed an initial public offering (IPO) of 28,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at a…
JFrog, which describes itself as “the “Database of DevOps” and de-facto standard in release and update management”, raised $509 million in an initial public…
Kymeta, a developer of satellite antennas, completed an $85 million funding round led by Bill Gates with members of the leadership team personally investing…
Fungible was founded in 2015 to revolutionize the performance, economics, reliability, and security of scale-out data centers. In this video, Pradeep Sindhu, Co-Founder and…
Lumina Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California that developed open source carrier orchestration software, announced its exit from the market. In a…
SiFive and Innovium, announced a collaboration to drive faster innovation in switch silicon solutions. SiFive specializes in RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions. Innovium…
SiFive, a start-up specializing in RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, raised $61 million in a Series E round. SiFive, which is based in…
Verizon Ventures led a $4.5 million Series A financing round backing PICadvanced, a start-up targetting NG-PON2. PICadvanced, which is based in Portugal, is working…
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