Start-ups

Christie Pitts, Venture Development Manager at Verizon Ventures, highlights some of hot tech areas with adjacencies to Verizon's core businesses. Think drones, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and 5G. Verizon Ventures...

BBG Ventures, a seed fund with backing from Verizon and AOL, invests in tech start-ups with at least one female founder. Susan Lyne, Founder and President of BBG Ventures, a...

Innovium, a pre-launch start-up based in San Jose, announced that it has raised over $50 million in funding across two oversubscribed rounds. Innovium is developing networking infrastructure products for next-generation...

Viptela, a start-up based in San Jose, announced $75 million in Series C funding for its Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) platform. The company cites deployments by more than 25 Fortune 500...

eero, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $50 million for its home WiFi system. ero uses multiple 802.11ac access points placed throughout the home to provide strong coverage in...

CloudBolt, a start-up based in Campbell, California, has added cloud bursting capabilities to its cloud management platform. CloudBolt said its tech-agnostic approach to cloud bursting and cloud management enables IT...

vArmour Networks, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, raised $41 million in Series D funding for its work in software-defined security for virtualized data centers. vArmour, which was founded...

DriveScale, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced $15 million in a Series A funding for its software-defined, data center rack architecture designed to create new capabilities out of commodity...

Avanan, a start-up headquartered in New York City with R&D in Tel Aviv, announced $14.9 million in Series A financing for its cloud security technology. Avanan’s Cloud Security Platform  helps...

Corsa Technology, a start-up based in Ottawa, introduced its new Corsa DP2000 open programmable switching and routing platform for 10G and 100G subscriber-level networking, on-demand services and real-time network tuning....

Weaveworks, a start-up offering networking and monitoring for containers and microservices, secured $15 million in Series B funding led by new investor GV (formerly Google Ventures). Weaveworks’ Weave provides a...

Rancher Labs, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, secured $20 million in Series B funding for its open source container management software. Rancher provides the ability to rapidly spin up...

SupportScaleFT, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced general availabitlity statust of its solution to eliminate credential theft in the cloud. Instead of static passwords or SSH keys, dynamic credentials...