Start-ups

CipherCloud, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced a $50 million round of financing for its cloud protection. CipherCloud provides cloud encryption and tokenization gateways to help enterprises to...

Virtual Software Systems (VS2), a stealth-mode start-up based in Waltham, Mass., said it is on track to unveil an entirely new approach to security based on the founders' expertise in...

What's been missing in the equation so far have been customers willing to move beyond the study phase, says Steve Garrison, VP of Marketing at Pica8. The focus at Pica8...

Microsoft has acquired Aorato, a developer of enterprise security solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Aorato, which is based in Israel, uses machine learning to detect suspicious activity on a...

Mavenir Systems agreed to acquire Stoke, a developer of mobile gateways, for $2.9 million in cash plus the assumption of approximately $1.9 million of indebtedness.. Stoke, which is based in...

Mimosa Networks, a start-up based in Campbell, California, introduced its C5i Hotspot-to-the-Home Gateway for connecting to urban Wi-Fi networks. Mimosa’s C5i packs a 4x4:4 Multi-User MIMO radio that leverages beamforming...

Deutsche Telekom is launching what is expected to be one of the largest venture investing funds in Europe. Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP) will have a fund volume of EUR...

Hortonworks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of...

Plexxi, a start-up specializing in next-generation networking, named serial entrepreneur Richard Napolitano as CEO. Napolitano has a long track record in the technology industry, including president of the Unified Storage...

Mesh Networks, which specializes in bandwidth management and optimization, has secured $4.3 million a new round funding from an existing investor base and new private investors.  Mesh Networks bandwidth management...

Shippable, a start-up based in Seattle, raised $8 million in Series A funding for its containerized continuous integration and delivery platform. The idea is to accelerate application development testing. Shippable...

Stratoscale, a start-up based in Herzeliya, Israel, raised $32 million in Series B funding for its distributed data center operating system. Stratoscale’s rack-scale architecture aims to transform standard x86 servers...

Siaras, a start-up based in Silicon Valley and Burnaby, BC, unveiled its cloudScape software platform for enabling intercloud WAN connectivity by leveraging SDN WAN orchestration from a wide variety of...