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Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its M...

Eliyan, a ⁠startup ⁠that aims to ease the ⁠bottlenecks in transferring data between AI chips in data centers, said on Wednesday it had raised $145 mil...

Cybersecurity company Zafran Security announced on Wednesday that Cisco Investments, the venture capital arm of networking giant Cisco, has invested i...

Identity access management (IAM) is a key priority for enterprise security leaders according to the latest CISO Survival Guide, released today by Cisc...

One of Cisco's Leadership Expectations is that they Make the Future, which includes championing diversity and inclusion with sponsorship.

Oort, an identity threat detection and response platform, today announced that it raised $11.5 million in a Series A round co-led by .406 Ventures and...

SAP unveils plans to acquire Dremio and Prior Labs to take its agentic AI portfolio and Tabular Foundation Models to the next level.

Oak9, a developer-first infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security provider, says that enterprises have begun to adopt the concept of treating applications...

Wabbi, a continuous security platform, announced today it has raised over $2 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Mendoza Ventures, ...

Mio, a startup that helps enterprise teams collaborate across messaging services like Zoom Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Cisco’s Webex, today annou...

Cogniac, a San Jose, California-based startup developing computer vision tech for task automation, today announced that it raised $20 million in a ser...

Styra, a startup offering a platform to secure containerized environments, has raised $40 million in a series B round led by Battery Ventures. The com...

Uniphore Software Systems Pvt, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to analyze and improve customer support provided over the phone, raised $14...

The video streaming industry has famously flourished during the Covid-19 era with Neilsen figures indicating an 85% leap in the number of users and a ...

Software testing startup SeaLights Technologies Ltd. has raised $8.6 in funding, the company announced Tuesday. The round was led by Nasdaq-listed net...

Following Cisco's investment in the startup in April, Gruve.ai has become the second company worldwide to achieve the designation of Global Cisco Mana...

CISOs face tough decisions as they are challenged with securing sensitive enterprise applications and provisioning dynamic user access in the backdrop...

The oversubscribed, $10 million Series A funding round marks the first public investment by an enterprise Fortune 500 company in quantum networking in...

As companies shift more of their operations to the cloud, security is becoming a greater priority even as it becomes potentially more complex. That’s ...

Facebook on Monday said it will acquire customer service startup Kustomer for an undisclosed sum, a deal that allows the social media giant to build o...

Theta Lake, a provider of compliance and security tools for conferencing software like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and others, sai...

Elastifile, the enterprise hybrid cloud data management company, today announced that it has closed a $16 million funding round, led by Western Digita...

Service level observability startup Nobl9 Inc. announced today that it has raised $15.8 million in new funding for product development, increased cust...

At the peak of awareness of growing systemic racial injustice in 2020, Cisco Systems launched a series of 12 measurable social justice actions designe...

A new study by Cisco Investments with venture capital firms finds that most CISOs find complexity of tools, number of solutions and users, and even ja...

Cisco Investments pumped new funds into tech startup Island, joining a handful of backers betting on its enterprise-focused browser technology.

Founded in 2018, TrustCloud offers an AI-native security assurance platform that is designed to modernize governance, risk and compliance operations f...

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the compan...

A founding member of the Streaming Video Alliance, Qwilt initially focused on delivery of low-latency video, which attracted customers such as Disney ...

CoreWeave, a startup that rents out Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to other companies, said Wednesday that it closed a $650 million secondary ...

Cisco Systems Inc. plans to invest $1 billion in startups that are working on what it calls “secure and reliable” artificial intelligence services, pa...

Databases are growing at an exponential rate these days, and so when it comes to real-time data observability, organizations are often fighting a losi...

At Cisco, one of the first questions executives ask when evaluating a potential deal is how certain they are it will close, said Derek Idemoto, the ne...

Launching a new AI fund from Cisco Investments should enable startups worldwide to bring good and secure AI solutions to market.

Data lake platform Dremio today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series E funding round led by Adams Street Partners. Existing investors Sa...

The Canadian AI unicorn doesn't have a viral chatbot, but it’s signed on hundreds of corporate clients.

High-performance networking chip startup Enfabrica Corp. today announced a significant new cash injection, raising $115 million as part of an oversubs...

Cisco is diving deeper into Kubernetes with its plan to purchase startup Replex to help cloud-native customers better predict costs and improve transp...

The company, through its investment arm, is investing in Cohere, Mistral AI and Scale AI, among others, and has already committed nearly $200 million ...

Anthropic is adding more rocket fuel to its engine as the high-flying San Francisco startup behind the Claude chatbot and AI platform raised another $...

Enterprise startups have several viable exit strategies: Some will go public, but most successful outcomes will be via acquisition, often by one of th...

Cisco unveiled a new $1 billion global AI investment fund targeting strategic investments in startup companies that build offerings based on Cisco’s s...

Binalyze, a London-based startup building a toolset for digital forensics and incident response, this week announced that it raised $19 million in a S...

Cybersecurity solutions and services provider Specter Ops Inc. today announced that it has raised $75 million in new funding to support the scaling of...

CEOs and other corporate tech leaders view M&A as a strategic way to supplement research and development with external sources of innovation, acqu...

User identity management and governance is emerging as a top challenge for chief information security officers.

As Cisco Systems continues to make moves towards becoming as well-known for its security expertise as its networking, the tech firm on Thursday announ...

Elon Musk’s xAI said it raised $20 billion in a funding round, exceeding its prior target of $15 billion.

Cybersecurity training startup RangeForce Inc. today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand its product line.

In this episode of Deep Takes, Pankaj Mitra – Director, Cisco Investments & Acquisitions talks about the investment, mentorship thesis, the DeepTe...

Derek Idemoto is senior vice-president (SVP) of corporate development and Cisco Investments, the corporate venture capital (CVC) and strategic acquisi...

Security operations center startup Hunters today announced that it has raised $68 million to develop its platform and services further, strengthen sal...

Cisco Investments is investing in World Labs, which aims to accelerate the development of Large World Models (LWMs) that enable AI systems that can pe...

Cybersecurity platform Expel, which specializes in threat detection and response, today announced that it has raised a $140.3 million Series E funding...

Cisco announced on Friday that it’s acquiring Israeli applications-monitoring startup Epsagon at a price pegged at $500 million. The purchase gives Ci...

With every company now a software company, this has created demand for tools to help build and test software. But once that software is out there in t...

SafeGuard Cyber, a cloud platform designed to protect assets from cybersecurity threats and risk factors, today announced it has raised $45 million in...

Cisco Systems Inc. announced today it will acquire events and logs analytics startup Dashbase Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Dashbase, whose software is...

It seems the pandemic has forced the business world to digitize faster, and the industrial sector is no different. Parsable, a San Francisco startup t...

Securiti was founded in 2019 by Rehan Jalil. The company raised more than $156 million in venture capital from investors, including Mayfield, General ...

Cisco Investments participated in a new funding round for New York-based quantum networking firm Qunnect that is looking to revolutionize current netw...

Gruve.ai, a startup founded by the team behind Rahi Systems aims to help enterprises get AI solutions out of testing phase and into real-world applica...

Panaseer, which takes a data science approach to cybersecurity, has raised $26.5 million in a Series B funding led by AllegisCyber Capital. Existing i...

Cisco Systems Inc. has led a $5 million funding round for TriggerMesh Inc., a startup with a Kubernetes-based software platform that makes it easier t...

ThreatQuotient, a security operations platform provider, today announced that it raised $22.5 million, a mix of debt and $13 million in equity. The co...

Dremio, a startup offering tools to help streamline and curate data, today announced that it raised $135 million in series D funding at a post-money v...

Isovalent, a startup that aims to bring networking into the cloud-native era, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A round led by A...

Cybersecurity training startup RangeForce said today it has armed itself with $16 million from an early-stage funding round led by Energy Impact Partn...

In the last few years, Israel has seen an explosion in funding. Companies are earning Unicorn status and becoming publicly traded at a pace never seen...

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for c...

Mistral announced the release of Voxtral, its first family of audio models aimed at businesses.

In marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day last week, Bay Area-based Webex published a blog post in which they detail their latest pledge to “break...

CNBC’s first-ever Top Startups for the Enterprise list highlights startups powering digital transformation, attracting strategic investments and poten...

Cisco Investments is among the investors in the cybersecurity upstart's Series B funding round totaling $75 million.

Rookout, the Tel Aviv-based startup that describes itself as a ‘developer-first observability platform,’ today announced that it has raised a $16 mill...

CorPower Ocean has secured 32 million euros ($35 million) of funding to support the commercialisation of wave energy technology, the firm said on Wedn...

CISOs offer recommendations to help secure identities, data, code, and cloud infrastructure and protect against evolving threats and vulnerabilities.

HYCU, which develops multi-cloud data protection and Backup-as-a-Service technology, Thursday said it has closed its B round of funding to the tune of...

Groq, a startup whose chips are specialized for running AI models, raised $640 million in Series D funding at a $2.8 billion valuation led by BlackRoc...

Its latest funding round is being led by Accel, and includes Cisco Investments, DFJ Growth, Intel Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, AMD Ventures, WCM, Ama...

Cybersecurity asset management and governance startup JupiterOne Inc. today announced it has raised $70 million in new funding to grow go-to-market ca...

This issue’s presentation of the KMWorld AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management intends to focus attention on the innovativ...

To help support the startup system and expand the development of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), Cisco Investments today launched a $1...

Theta Lake, which offers a security and compliance solution for popular collaboration applications, has closed a $50 million series B funding round as...

Toronto-based Cohere locked up a $450 million investment from big-named corporate investors at a $5 billion valuation, per a Reuters report.

Robust Intelligence’s platform offers protection for AI models throughout their lifecycle, from development to production.

Today, Corellium is announcing the completion of a $25M Series A investment round, led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Cisco Investm...

Security startup Corelight has raised $150 million in new financing in an investment led by Accel. The deal values the San Francisco-based business at...

AI may be the hottest thing since sliced bread. But that doesn’t mean it’s getting easier to develop and run.

Acrew Capital is getting into late-stage investing with a new $300 million diversity-focused investment fund.