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ControlUp nabs $100M to monitor and improve desktop computing performance across disparate work environments

TechCrunch

ControlUp was founded in Israel, where it continues to have a strong R&D presence, alongside wider operations out of San Jose. To give you an idea of how big its customers are, those 1 million seats are connected to some 1,500 customers in all. K1 Investment Management and JVP, both previous backers, co-led this round.

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Sales experience platform Walnut raises $15M to improve product demonstrations

TechCrunch

Vilner told TechCrunch that while at a previous company, he was building a category called technology marketing in Israel. We let the sales and marketing teams replicate the SaaS product in our cloud environment, which is disconnected from the back end,” Vilner explained. Walnut engagement example. Image Credits: Walnut. “We

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

And this is something that is not brand new in the world — meaning that countries like Israel or Italy have very similar systems. If we are creating a startup ecosystem law we are focusing on helping startups to have a better environment to succeed. Others equal the countries that we have around us. And they work perfectly.

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To guard against data loss and misuse, the cybersecurity conversation must evolve

TechCrunch

He serves on the advisory boards for entrepreneurship at Cornell University and the California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Sid Trivedi is a partner at Foundation Capital where he leads cybersecurity and IT investments. Mark Settle. Contributor. Mark Settle is a seven-time CIO, three-time CIO 100 award winner and two-time book author.

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Microsoft president sounds alarm on ‘ongoing’ SolarWinds hack, identifies 40 more precise targets

The Verge

Approximately 80 percent of those customers are located in the US, but Microsoft also identified victims in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, the UK, Israel, and the UAE. It’s certain that the number and location of victims will keep growing,” Smith said. Investigations into the hack are ongoing.

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Port internal development platform gives visibility into DevOps architecture

TechCrunch

They can define the software catalog with all the data that engineering cares about regarding microservices, environments, cloud resources, permissions and things like that,” he said. The second piece lets them self-provision components, like creating an environment or setting up a microservice.

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Orca AI, which puts computer vision onto cargo ships, raises $13M Series A funding

TechCrunch

The latter is a former Israel navy computer vision expert. Orca AI’s AI-based navigation and vessel tracking system supports ships in difficult to tricky to navigate situations and congested waterways, using vision sensors, thermal and low-light cameras, plus algorithms that look at the environment and alert crews to dangerous situations.

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