Battling Giants

“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness” Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants Technology industry history is filled with examples of companies that achieved success by enhancing existing products offered by … Continued

MinIO Closes $103 Million Series B Round at $1 Billion Valuation to Accelerate Multi-Cloud Storage

PALO ALTO, California – January 26, 2022 – MinIO Inc., creators of the MinIO multi-cloud object storage suite, announced today that it has raised $103 million in Series B funding at a $1 billion valuation. The investment was led by Intel Capital with participation from new investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and existing investors Dell … Continued

The Technology Trailblazing Trust & Safety: Our Investment in Spectrum Labs

User engagement and satisfaction are key strategic growth drivers for online platforms, but require a balance between an increase in user-generated content and a decrease in tolerance for online toxicity. As platforms focus on building safe, accessible, and engaging environments for their users, they must be future-leaning in their enforcement of community standards. With 4.6 … Continued

Spectrum Labs Closes $32M Series B Led by Intel Capital to Put Critical Trust & Safety Technology at the Core of Every Digital Interaction

The Company will Further Scale the Adoption of its Content Moderation Technology and Develop New Applications for HR, Customer Service, Sales, and Brand Safety MIAMI, FL, January 24, 2022 – Spectrum Labs, a leading AI-based content moderation platform, today announced a $32 million Series B investment led by Intel Capital with participation from Munich Re … Continued

It’s 10 PM, Do You Know How Reliable Your Systems Are?

Our Investment in Verica, the Continuous Verification Company In the Fall of 2019, we were reading O’Reilly Chaos Engineering, the then-current book about the principles of Chaos Engineering first developed by Casey Rosenthal and his team at Netflix. As we digested this introductory book, it became abundantly clear to us that we needed to meet … Continued

Verica Raises $12M in Series A Funding to Scale Continuous Verification Platform

As the demand for system resiliency increases, Verica provides a platform  to maintain confidence across enterprises’ most complex systems, helping SRE, DevOps, and DevSecOps move faster and safer.   WASHINGTON D.C., JANUARY 18, 2022 – Verica, the continuous verification company using chaos engineering to make systems more reliable and less vulnerable to costly incidents, today announced … Continued

Anyscale: The Infinite Laptop for AI

Enterprises investing time and money into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is not about buzzwords or building out cool tech—it’s about finding new business value. IDG’s 2021 State of the CIO report states that CIOs are tasked with creating new revenue streams and uplifting existing ones. It’s what public shareholders expect, and is … Continued

Anyscale Secures $100M Series C at $1B Valuation to Radically Simplify Scaling and Productionizing AI Applications

Company Behind Ray, the Fastest Growing Open Source Project in Distributed AI, Announces General Availability of the Anyscale managed Ray platform SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 8, 2021) – Anyscale, the company enabling instant scaling of AI applications, has secured $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total financing … Continued

Grip Security Raises $25M in 9 Months to Displace Legacy CASB Solutions

Led by Intel Capital, Grip’s Series A round will accelerate its product development and support its rapid growth in the US TEL AVIV, Israel (December 7, 2021) – In one of the fastest Series A funding rounds of the year, Grip Security, a SaaS security startup founded in February 2021, has secured a total of … Continued

3D Glass Solutions Closes $20 Million Series B1 Funding Round to Accelerate Its Revenue Growth Strategy

Investment Round Led by Intel Capital Will Support Operations for High Volume Production Albuquerque, N.M. – Nov. 30, 2021 – 3D Glass Solutions Inc. (3DGS), a leading innovator of glass-based three-dimensional passive radio frequency (RF) devices, today announced it has secured $20 million in Series B1 funding led by Intel Capital. CerraCap Ventures, Lockheed Martin Ventures … Continued