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Security

Cloudburst Security wins Department of Justice $1.9B cybersecurity BPA

The Department of Justice has selected Cloudburst Security to provide an array of cybersecurity services and products, the company said in a statement.

Fundings

Area 1 raises $25M

Area 1 Security, a preemptive email security company, has raised $25 million.

Government

Synopsys awarded DARPA contract for Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Synopsys as a prime contractor for the Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) program, the company said in a statement.

Internet of things

Research and development

University of California Riverside wins $10M grant to develop environmental AI

The University of California Riverside (UCR), has won a $10 million grant to develop artificial intelligence that can be used for environmental and economic stability of agriculture in the Western U.S.

Siemens, IBM launch Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) solution

Siemens and IBM have announced the availability of a Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) solution.

Industry

Airport Authority Hong Kong selects Solace to develop IoT platform

Event broker technologies company Solace has been selected by the Airport Authority Hong Kong to develop the Internet of Things (IoT) platform for Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA).

Fundings

Particle raises $40M

Internet of Things (IoT) platform company Particle has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round.

Fundings

Fivetran raises $100M

Automated data integration provider Fivetran has raised $100 million in Series C financing.

Google acquires smart glasses company North

Google has acquired North; a company founded in 2012 as Thalmic Labs.

Schneider, Cisco working together on smart building solutions

Schneider Electric and Cisco have formed a technology partnership to create smart building solutions.

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine using Oracle cloud and data analytics

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and Oracle Health Sciences have teamed to study new approaches to establishing the safety of new drugs.

Amazon to buy autonomous vehicle startup Zoox

Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire Zoox, a California-based company working to design autonomous ride-hailing vehicles from the ground up.

Siemens acquires UltraSoC

Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Cambridge, UK-based UltraSoC Technologies, for better semiconductor product cycle, and also to support digital twins.

Apple acquires remote device management startup Fleetsmith

In a push for its enterprise sales, Apple acquired Fleetsmeeth; a startup founded in 2016, that handles remote device management for the Apple portfolio.

Government

Cloudburst Security wins Department of Justice $1.9B cybersecurity BPA

The Department of Justice has selected Cloudburst Security to provide an array of cybersecurity services and products, the company said in a statement.

Government

Synopsys awarded DARPA contract for Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Synopsys as a prime contractor for the Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) program, the company said in a statement.

Just in

SAIC wins $630M contract to modernize Air Force IT infrastructure

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force 557th Weather Wing to manage and modernize their hardware and software.

People

MemSQL names former Google BigQuery leader Jordan Tigani as CPO

MemSQL, a vendor for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, has named Jordan Tigani as chief product officer.

People

MongoDB appoints Mark Porter as CTO

MongoDB has appointed Mark Porter as CTO, effective July 20.

People

Hootsuite appoints former Zendesk COO Tom Keiser as chief executive

Social media management company Hootsuite has appointed Tom Keiser, former COO of Zendesk, as the company’s new chief executive.

Fundings

DriveU.auto raises $4M (Israel)

Israel-based DriveU.auto, developers of connectivity platform for autonomous vehicle teleoperation, has raised $4 million.

Fundings

AgencyKPI raises $5M

AgencyKPI, a start-up in Austin that provides a business intelligence platform for insurance has closed a $5 million Series A funding round.

Fundings

Area 1 raises $25M

Area 1 Security, a preemptive email security company, has raised $25 million.

Fundings

Codefresh raises $27M

Kubernetes DevOps tools company Codefresh has raised $27 million.

Fundings

ClickUp raises $35M

San Diego, CA-based enterprise collaborative software company ClickUp has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round.

Fundings

Element raises $18M

Element, an industrial data hub provider, has closed an $18 million Series B funding round. The investment was co-led by Activate Capital and Forte Ventures.

Fundings

Cape Privacy raises $5M

Enterprise SaaS company Cape Privacy has raised $5 million in seed funding.

Fundings

Librestream raises $24M (Canada)

Canadian augmented worker enterprise solutions company Librestream has raised a $24M Series D capital round.

Fundings

Ujet raises $55M

Ujet, a provider of cloud contact center solutions, has raised $55 million in a Series C round.

Fundings

Urjanet raises $14.65M

Utility account aggregator company Urjanet has secured $14.65 million in Series D funding.

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine using Oracle cloud and data analytics

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and Oracle Health Sciences have teamed to study new approaches to establishing the safety of new drugs.

University of California Riverside wins $10M grant to develop environmental AI

MIT: Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

Cornell University: Microscale, privacy-concious, data-driven planning applications with Ancile

Artificial intelligence

Fundings

ClickUp raises $35M

San Diego, CA-based enterprise collaborative software company ClickUp has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round.

Life Sciences

Johns Hopkins Medicine inks five-year Microsoft Azure deal

Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) has inked a five-year relationship with Microsoft, centered on Microsoft’s Azure and analytical tools.

Research and development

University of California Riverside wins $10M grant to develop environmental AI

Research and development

MIT: Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors.

Industry

Velodyne Lidar inks multi-year partnership agreement with Outsight

Velodyne Lidar has inked a multi-year partnership agreement with Outsight, a company providing Smart Cities monitoring.

Government

Accenture awarded USPTO $50M BPA for designing search with Google machine learning

Accenture Federal Services has been awarded a position on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Intelligent Automation and Innovation Support Services (IAISS) blanket purchase agreement, a multi-award contract vehicle.