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Alooma scores $11.2 million Series A to solve data science pain points

Data scientist in front of giant board with mathematical formulas. Alooma, an Israeli startup that helps companies process and work with big data in real time delivered as a cloud service, announced an $11.2 million Series A round today led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The product focuses on the people working with data like data scientists and end users with advanced degrees in mathematics and machine learning, rather than… Read More

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Stealth Cybersecurity Startup Fireglass Grabs $20M In Series A

13334048894_6e8b421c4e_o As more and more companies fall victim to security breaches and substantial (and embarrassing) data leaks, cybersecurity startups seem to be profiting at their expense. Cybersecurity companies helping companies not get caught with their pants down raised over $3.3 billion in 2015. The latest firm to join the cash grab is Fireglass, a stealth company that is looking to announce its first… Read More

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Datos IO Raises $12.5M Series A Round For Its Big Data Recovery Platform

When you have a lot of data in your data warehouse, NoSQL database or cloud-native data store, recovering all of that data after it has become corrupted or inaccurate is difficult. Datos IO, which was founded by a group of veteran Data Domain, Veritas and IBM researchers, is now trying to make it easier to recover data from these big data services. The company is launching out of stealth… Read More

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A Week In, Casey Neistat’s New App Beme Has 1.1M Videos Shared

Screen Shot 2015-07-28 at 11.25.11 AM Launched about a week ago, Beme is a new video-sharing app built by viral filmmaker Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett, former VP of Engineering at Tumblr and Hacker-in-Residence at betaworks. The duo raised $2.6 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and have been working on the project together for about a year. Read More

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