Hot Start-ups

Bay Dynamics, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced $23 million in Series B financing for its cyber risk analytics. Bay Dynamics' flagship analytics software, Risk Fabric, automates the process...

Google has acquired Anvato, a start-up based in Mountain View, California that provides video processing software for TV operators, programmers, and broadcasters. Financial terms were not disclosed. Anvato said its...

Veriflow, a start-up based in San Jose, announced $8.2 million in Series A funding for its work in network breach and outage prevention. Veriflow said it uses formal mathematical network...

Skyport Systems, a start-up offering secure infrastructure solutions, announced interoperability between its SkySecure platform and Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) solution. The goal is to provide application-layer and system-level security...

Twistlock, a start-up based in San Francisco and Tel-Aviv, announced $10 million in funding for its enterprise security suite for virtual containers. The company says its security suite provides full...

Google has acquire Moodstocks, a start-up based in Paris, that specializes in image recognition and machine vision technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Moodstocks said its new mission "will be...

ThousandEyes, a San Francisco-based start-up offering a network intelligence platform that delivers network visibility, announced support for Cisco Enterprise Routers. ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents that use containers to run directly on...

Cisco agreed to acquire CloudLock, a start-up focused on cloud security, for $293 million in cash and assumed equity awards. CloudLock specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology that...

Ayla Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, announced $39 million in Series C funding to propelling its global Internet of Things (IoT) platform for manufacturers. Ayla's end-to-end software,...

Eric Carter provides a quick overview of Hedvig's software-defined storage for containers at #DockerCon. See video: https://youtu.be/151KSqYPfQM

Aqua (formerly named Scalock)is rolling out enhancements to its Container Security Platform, including: A native Jenkins plug-in -- adds an Aqua Security step to the CI pipeline that enables organizations...

Barefoot Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California emerged from stealth to unveil its "Tofino" switching chip and announce that it has raised $130 million, including a strategic investment...

Portworx, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, introduced its purpose-built, enterprise-class storage for containers. While containers are distributed and fast, legacy storage is siloed and slow, and cannot be...