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Cortex Secures $35M in Series B Funding to Further Accelerate Development and Adoption of its Internal Developer Portal

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Cortex , the leading internal developer portal (IDP), today announced $35 million in Series B funding led by IVP with participation from Craft Ventures in addition to existing investors Sequoia Capital , Tiger Global and YCombinator .

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Cortex , the leading internal developer portal (IDP), today announced $35 million in Series B funding led by IVP with participation from Craft Ventures in addition to existing investors Sequoia Capital , Tiger Global and YCombinator .
This new round of funding will enable Cortex to deepen integrations and automation, in an effort to build the world’s most connected and intuitive IDP.
View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230531005443/en/
The Cortex Internal Developer Platform (IDP) integrates with over 50 third-party tools including GitHub, Datadog, Sonarqube, Snyk and PagerDuty.
Increased demand for Cortex has been fueled by an industry-wide shift to service-oriented architectures that are increasingly difficult to manage at scale.

CORRECTION: Rumble Acquires Podcasting and Live Streaming Platform Callin

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

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Rumble, the popular video-sharing platform (NASDAQ: RUM), announced today that it has acquired Callin, the San Francisco-based podcasting and live streaming platform founded by technology entrepreneur and investor David Sacks and Axel Ericsson.
Ericsson and the Callin team will continue to develop live streaming capabilities as a part of Rumble.
Callin creates a seamless experience for its users to create, discover, and consume live and recorded content.
“I am excited to expand Callin’s capabilities by joining forces with Rumble, a platform with significant size, influence, and reach.

Rumble Acquires Podcasting and Live Streaming Platform CallIn

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Monday, May 15, 2023

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LONGBOAT KEY, Fla., May 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rumble, the popular video-sharing platform (NASDAQ: RUM), announced today that it has acquired CallIn, the San Francisco-based podcasting and live streaming platform founded by technology entrepreneur and investor David Sacks.

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LONGBOAT KEY, Fla., May 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rumble, the popular video-sharing platform (NASDAQ: RUM), announced today that it has acquired CallIn, the San Francisco-based podcasting and live streaming platform founded by technology entrepreneur and investor David Sacks.
CallIn creates a seamless experience for its users to create, discover, and consume live and recorded content.
The CallIn app was built to blend the best aspects of social audio and video with the most attractive features of podcasting.
As a result, we built CallIn as the first ‘social podcasting’ platform, where users can stream, take questions, record, edit, publish, and share content with their audience,” said David Sacks, CEO of CallIn and co-founder of Craft Ventures.

Vanta Expands Partnership with CrowdStrike, Announces New Integration to Secure Access for Automated Compliance

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Vanta also announced three new strategic investors in their previously announced Series B — Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures and Workday Ventures.

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Vanta also announced three new strategic investors in their previously announced Series B — Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures and Workday Ventures.
View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230510005415/en/
The new integration builds on an existing partnership between Vanta and CrowdStrike.
In September 2022, the companies announced that CrowdStrike had made an investment in Vanta via the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.
"Together with Vanta, CrowdStrike is automating continuous security and compliance so organizations of all sizes can elevate protection levels in an efficient manner."

Vanta Deepens International Momentum with Launch of EU Data Centre

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

“As we continue expanding our global footprint and supporting increasingly larger organizations with more complex security and compliance needs, we want to ensure customers have more control over where their data is stored,” said Paulo Rodriguez, Head of International, Vanta.

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“As we continue expanding our global footprint and supporting increasingly larger organizations with more complex security and compliance needs, we want to ensure customers have more control over where their data is stored,” said Paulo Rodriguez, Head of International, Vanta.
“Today, we’re leading the trust management and automated compliance market in Europe by launching a new data centre available to all European customers.
“As a Vanta customer, we’re pleased to have our data reside in Europe, giving us the peace of mind that we’re continuing our industry leading approach to security.
To resolve issues in a timely manner, Vanta now features timezone-aligned tech support, serving customers wherever they’re based.

Anvil Announced $10M Total Series A, Launches Full Suite of APIs to Transition Paperwork Into Datawork

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Anvil, a paperwork automation platform, today announced that they have raised a $5 million Series A extension, amounting to a total $10 million Series A with participation from Craft Ventures and Gradient Ventures. This raise comes alongside the launch of the Anvil Platform, a new, full suite of enterprise products.

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This raise comes alongside the launch of the Anvil Platform , a new, full suite of enterprise products.
Paperwork is at the core of business transactions; every day millions of forms and documents are shared, filled out, signed, and processed.
"The Anvil Platform makes it easier than ever to move beyond paperwork," says Mang-Git Ng, Founder and CEO of Anvil .
Anvil enables them to digitize any paperwork into a TurboTax-like experience and embrace the transition into a data-first economy, while maintaining backwards compatibility with PDFs."

SecurityPal Inaugurates 24/7 Security Operations Command Center with United States Ambassador

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SecurityPal, Silicon Valley's leading consolidated solution for completing Security Reviews and Questionnaires, today unveiled a state-of-the-art Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) in Kathmandu with the sitting United States Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, the Honorable Dean R. Thompson. This announcement comes on the heels of their emergence from stealth and announcement of a $21 Million Series A funding round led by Craft Ventures during the fall of last year. SecurityPal is also proud to debut a slate of new referenceable customers including Apptio, Inc, Trovata, Inc, and Material Security, Inc.

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Leading Security Review & Questionnaire platform invests in APAC expansion, unlocking uncapped scalability for its growing customer base
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SecurityPal, Silicon Valley's leading consolidated solution for completing Security Reviews and Questionnaires, today unveiled a state-of-the-art Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) in Kathmandu with the sitting United States Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, the Honorable Dean R. Thompson.
SecurityPal is also proud to debut a slate of new referenceable customers including Apptio, Inc, Trovata, Inc, and Material Security, Inc.
With state of the art security features and redundancy built in, SecurityPal has been trusted & vetted by regional security leaders.
With SOCC in place, SecurityPal customers can focus on their core business operations, confident in the knowledge that their security needs are expertly managed.

Vanta Names Security Leader David Eckstein as CFO

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Vanta , the leading trust management platform, announced today that it has appointed David Eckstein as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.

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Vanta , the leading trust management platform, announced today that it has appointed David Eckstein as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
“His disciplined financial leadership coupled with a proficiency in navigating emerging industries and markets is a tremendous asset to Vanta as we embark on our next chapter of hypergrowth.”
Bringing nearly a decade of security experience to Vanta, Eckstein most recently served as CFO of Menlo Security, Inc., overseeing finance, accounting, human resources, recruiting, and legal.
Prior to Menlo Security, Eckstein was the Head of Finance for Cisco Cloud Security, via its $635 million acquisition of OpenDNS, where he served as Senior Director of Finance.
Vanta and Trustpage’s combined solution provides a real-time, single source of truth for an organization’s security posture that's verified to meet industry gold standards.

Amazon Leads $20 Million Investment Round in Character Design Studio Superplastic; Amazon Studios to Develop the World's First Animated Comedy Series, Starring Synthetic Celebrities Janky and Guggimon

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

CULVER CITY, Calif. and BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Amazon and Superplastic announced a multifaceted collaboration that spans investment and a first-look deal with Amazon Studios, which is currently in development on a series featuring Superplastic's synthetic celebrities.

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Other investors include Craft Ventures, Google Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Kering, Sony Japan, Scribble Ventures, Kakao, Animoca Brands, Day One Ventures, and Betaworks.
This latest round brings Superplastic's total funding to $58 million to date, and supports the expansion of the Superplastic character universe.
Additionally, The Janky & Guggimon Show, starring the Superplastic synthetic celebrities Janky and Guggimon, is in development at Amazon Studios.
We're grateful for the investment the Amazon Alexa Fund gave us to help us continue to grow the Superplastic Universe!"

Cybeats Signs Commercial Agreement with a Top 3 Global Medical Device and Diagnostics Company

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Friday, January 20, 2023

This agreement will see SBOM Studio deployed by the maker of some of the world's most frequently used medical devices, spanning across multiple specialty domains ranging from orthopedics and ophthalmology to cardiology and sports medicine.

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This agreement will see SBOM Studio deployed by the maker of some of the world's most frequently used medical devices, spanning across multiple specialty domains ranging from orthopedics and ophthalmology to cardiology and sports medicine.
"We applaud the leadership across the medical device ecosystem, including the FDA and medical device manufacturers, who are demonstrating what is possible in software transparency and next-generation software supply chain security."
Cybeats recently applauded the mandates that require medical device manufacturers to submit a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to the FDA that includes all standard, open source, and critical software components used by the devices.
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