AppDirect has raised $9 million and is announcing the purchase of Standing Cloud, a Foundry Group investment. iNovIa Capital led the Series B investment, which brings the app marketplace’s total investment to $20.8 million. The Standing Cloud technology packages apps for use with cloud services to ease the complexity of deploying and managing apps. AppDirect […]
Posted on September 11th, 2013 by admin
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Lookout, a mobile security company which previously focused on consumer protections and anti-malware services, is today taking a step to expand its footprint further with the launch of a new, standalone product for business. Arriving later this year, Lookout for Business intends to allow larger organizations the ability to secure mobile devices attaching to the […]
Posted on September 4th, 2013 by admin
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Sentinel Labs, a startup that detects cyber-security threats in real time, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from Data Collective, Granite Hill Capital Partners, Accel Partners and several other angel investors. The company also raised $20,000 in funding last March. A graduate of Israeli startup accelerator UpWest Labs, Sentinel Labs is trying to eliminate all admin […]
Posted on August 8th, 2013 by admin
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GoodData has raised $22 million in a Series D round, with funding led by São-Paulo-based TOTVS Ventures, the investment arm of TOTVS S.A., the largest enterprise software company in Latin America. Also participating were Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Next World Capital and Tenaya Capital, who also participated in the latest round. This is TOTVS’ first investment outside Brazil. […]
Posted on June 14th, 2013 by admin
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Card.biz originally launched in Summer 2012 as a me-too offering along the lines of About.me. But as startups are wont to do, the Paris-based company, backed by Kima Ventures, has since pivoted to offer a service that enables companies to create an org chart and staff directory hosted in the cloud. It taps into the recent […]
Posted on June 4th, 2013 by admin
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Tidemark is launching a new service today called Storylines that provides a visual way to view a company’s performance. The SaaS platform provides a way to see data that in many ways borrows from the infographic style that has become so popular as a marketing tool. As part of the release, Tidemark is also announcing […]
Posted on April 1st, 2013 by admin
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Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty has a new job as the CEO at Nirvanix, the Khosla Ventures backed enterprise storage company that she expects to further compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and extend into the business analytics market. Chrapaty initially joined Nirvanix last November as chairwoman of the board when Khosla became lead investor in the […]
Posted on March 26th, 2013 by admin
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BitNami, a Y Combinator company, has announced that it will focus more on being an app store for server software. The goal is to provide customers with a Google Play or Apple App Store experience that can be accessed on their own infrastructure. The BitNami platform provides the server infrastructure that companies would otherwise have to […]
Posted on March 26th, 2013 by admin
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Master Lock has acquired Toronto-based software-as-a-service enterprise security solution provider Field ID in a deal the terms of which weren’t disclosed. We’ve heard the deal involving the five year-old startup was in the tens of millions, however, and that the company’s angel investors were very pleased with the arrangement. The purchase nets Master Lock an […]
Posted on February 24th, 2013 by admin
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Cylance,a cyber security company founded by former Global McAfee CTO Stuart McClure, has raised $15 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital. Cylance uses data to help keep core systems healthy. In particular its focus is on critical infrastructure and the types of threats President Barack Obama mentioned in his State […]
Posted on February 19th, 2013 by admin
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