Mykonos (the security software company, not the lovely Greek island) has secured $4 million in a Series A funding round led by previous backer Tom Golisano, founder and chairman of Paychex. New investors include Ironport founder Scott Banister, Jeff Clarke (executive chairman of Travelport, chairman of Orbitz and board member of Red Hat) and Mike […]
Posted on January 24th, 2012 by admin
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Cloud emailing service provider Mailjet has raised 180,000 euros from Brussels-based eFounders, an earlier backer. Obviously, that’s not an enormous fundraising round, but Mailjet is an interesting company solving a real problem and challenging more established, venture capital-backed rivals like SendGrid and Mailgun, so let’s take a closer look. Read more at TechCrunch Europe. Tweet […]
Posted on December 11th, 2011 by admin
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Today sees the launch of the Social Business Index, a project from social business services company Dachis Group. In essence, the information service aims to provide some insights into how ‘social’ companies are, and how they stack up against similar corporations in their respective industries and their competitors, and provide some ‘social business’ benchmarks by […]
Posted on September 13th, 2011 by admin
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Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is announcing a comprehensive partner program today for the companies that use its services. Hadoop is a Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure which is fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. […]
Posted on August 11th, 2011 by admin
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Incubated within big data company Greenplum (acquired by EMC in 2010) and following 15 months of product development, Silicon Valley-based Alpine Data Labs launches its solution for “Big Data Predictive Insight” in the United States today. The company is also announcing that it has landed $7.5 million in Series A funding from Sierra Ventures, Mission […]
Posted on May 11th, 2011 by admin
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Covertix, an Israeli startup that provides enterprise-grade solutions for protecting and monitoring sensitive corporate data, has raised $1 million in early-stage funding. The round was led by Kima Ventures, the investment firm founded by well-known European entrepreneurs Jeremie Berrebi and Xavier Niel. Covertix says the capital will be used to try and gain market share […]
Posted on January 13th, 2011 by admin
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SAP certified partner Taulia, provider of a “Dynamic Discounting” platform for corporations using SAP, announced this morning that it raised $3.2 million in financing from new investors ncluding Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. Previous backers such as The Angels’ Forum also participated in the round. The company says the freshly secured capital will be used […]
Posted on December 6th, 2010 by admin
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The Planet and SoftLayer, both giants in the world of dedicated server and Web hosting services, have merged. The news of the merger, which has been subject of rumors and speculation for months now, was confirmed in a (confidential) email that was sent out by The Planet earlier this morning. In the email, the company […]
Posted on November 8th, 2010 by admin
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Today at a press event in San Francisco, Intel and a group of 70 companies announced an alliance to build a system of open standards for cloud computing. Part of the Cloud 2015 initiative, The Open Data Center Alliance makes it easier for customers to deploy cloud computing solutions, as it focuses on interoperability, flexibility […]
Posted on October 27th, 2010 by admin
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Connotate, which aims to help companies collect data and content from the Web and transform this unstructured data into actionable enterprise intelligence, this morning announced that it has raised $5.25 million in venture capital from .406 Ventures. Based on technology developed at Rutgers University, Connotate provides customized real-time Web information extraction capabilities that help organizations […]
Posted on June 8th, 2010 by admin
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