The Boring Hat Company is a fashion product that provides “the world's most boring hat.” This is the first product release from The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunneling company founded by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk to cut down on traffic and improve vehicular transportation.
Veeam® Software announced the appointment of Shaun McLagan to lead the combined Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region as the senior vice president. McLagan is an industry veteran with more than 20 years’ experience across sales, pre-sales and consulting roles, and a global leader who
Financial technology company BlueVine Capital announced the close of $130 million in financing. Four investors contributed to the round: Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank, TriplePoint Capital, and Bank Leumi. BlueVine’s miFinancial technology company BlueVine Capital announced the close of $130 million in financing. Four investors contributed
Splunk, an American multinational corporation that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, announced that it has acquired SignalSense. The acquisition was funded with cash from Splunk’s balance sheet for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2013, SignalSense offers cloud-based advanced data collection and
Real estate startup LendingHome completed $57 million in Series C financing. Sberbank and Noah Holdings participated in the round. LendingHome offers flexible, simple, fast, transparent, and reliable mortgages. Users answer a few questions about the type of home they’re looking for, their income, estimated credit
Guardyman is a crime and sex offenders monitoring app that shows the latest registered crimes and a list of sex offenders and also provides essential insights into what’s happening in a given area. When users enter a location and destination point, the Guardyman map displays
Software startup Feedzai announced it has raised $50 million in Series C financing. Five investors participated in the round, including Sapphire Ventures, Capital One Growth Ventures, Citi Ventures, and First Data Corporation. Feedzai’s unique risk management platform is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to make banking
Pluto.TV announced the close of $5 million in financing led by Samsung Ventures. Pluto TV is a leading free over-the-top content television service in America, carrying and programming more than 75 channels in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Millions
Robotics company Magic Leap announced it has raised $502 million in Series D financing led by Temasek Holdings. Edbi, Janus Capital, Alibaba Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Globo also participated in the offering. Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users
edX.org, the leading nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT, announced the appointment of Adam Medros as the company’s president and chief operating officer. In this role, Medros will assume the day-to-day management and oversight of edX’s operations, contribute to edX’s strategy and