Tamr, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that helps companies understand and unify all of the disparate databases across a company, announced a $25.2 million Series B round today. The investment isn’t from the usual Silicon Valley suspects. It’s a round from a group of strategic investors who really believe in the company’s mission, according to CEO and […]
Posted on June 19th, 2015 by admin
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The concept of deep learning or deep structured learning has been a frequent topic of conversation in recent months because of the commitment and advancements of some of the world’s largest and most prolific search companies. With organizations like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Baidu (a Chinese search engine) buying into this technology, we are starting […]
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Storing loads of data is costly, especially if companies can’t figure out the most best ways to manage all that information. Komprise wants to make big data less overwhelming so its clients don’t have to constantly buy more storage. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on June 18th, 2015 by admin
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With questions swirling over who may end up buying Nokia’s mapping division Here, a startup trying to disrupt it and other big boys like Google has raised some major funding. Mapbox, a developer of customizable maps used by third-party apps like Foursquare, Pinterest, Mapquest and 16,000 others, has raised $52.55 million in a Series B […]
Posted on June 18th, 2015 by admin
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Cohesity, a startup founded by ex-Googler and former Nutanix CTO Mohit Aron, wants to change how enterprises think about secondary storage — that is, the kind of data storage that supports non-critical applications like analytics or provides backup solutions for critical services. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on June 17th, 2015 by admin
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Apple is working with mobile device management shop MobileIron to help deploy applications into the enterprise. The collaborative effort is part of a larger enterprise push by Apple that has it working with IBM and a number of other firms that sell products into the enterprise. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on June 17th, 2015 by admin
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Kleiner Perkins has launched a new, small seed stage investment initiative within its latest fund to invest in technology like virtual reality and drones that will offer founders a suite of additional services. As part of this new fund called the Edge fund, Kleiner Perkins has brought on an engineer, a designer and a product person to build […]
Posted on June 16th, 2015 by admin
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For several years now, we’ve been hearing that we should follow the data and the truth will set our businesses free, and sports teams are among the chief proponents of data-driven decision making. Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane famously conceived of the idea as described in the book and movie Moneyball. What Beane did was take a […]
Posted on June 16th, 2015 by admin
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PowWow, a startup that specializes in technology like a tool that detect leaks and help farmers keep track of their water usage, has raised $3 million. PowWow uses a combination of data from aerial imagery, water energy records and other kinds of data, and then sends farmers text messages with updates if there is a […]
Posted on June 15th, 2015 by admin
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One thing was clear to me this week as I wandered the halls of the Hilton at Torrey Pines for the Cloud Identity Summit, and it had nothing to do with the famous golf course or the trees for which it’s named. Whatever the subject, enterprise scale brings with it complexity, and one of the […]
Posted on June 13th, 2015 by admin
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