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Tel Aviv-founded Guardicore, an internal data centre and cloud security startup, has landed $60 million in a funding round led by Qumra Capital, with participation from DTCP, Partech, ClalTech, Battery Ventures, 83North, TPG Growth, and Greenfield Partners. This capital injection brings the total amount raised by the company to $110 million. Guardicore will use the […]
British cloud infrastructure provider for the public sector UKCloud has landed a £25 million funding round from Digital Alpha. The company is working with the UK’s health and life sciences customers, as well as defence and national security organisations. The investor, Digital Alpha, is a strategic partner of Cisco, which was one of UKCloud’s first […]
UK-founded deep tech startup Hadean has landed a £7 million funding round led by Draper Esprit, with participation from Aster, London Venture Partners, Luminous Ventures, and Entrepreneur First. Hadean’s product is what it claims to be the world’s first cloud-first operating system, HadeanOS, which supposedly “enables programmers to scale their code, as it treats entire […]
The UK’s CTERA Networks, a secure cloud file-sharing platform for enterprise customers, has raised $30 million in a funding round led by Red Dot Capital Partners. A new investor Singtel Innov8 and all existing shareholders—Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Venrock, Vintage Investment Partners, and Viola Group—also participated in the round. The company is planning […]
Vonage, the US-based Internet telephony service provider, has announced the acquisition of the UK-founded cloud contact centre company NewVoiceMedia for $350 million in an all-cash deal. NewVoiceMedia claims to have more than 700 primarily mid-market and enterprise customers using its Contact Centre-as-a-Service (CCaaS) solutions, including Adobe, Siemens, Time Inc., FundingCircle, and Rapid7. It employs more […]
Belgium’s PieSync, a data syncing service for businesses, has raised €2.8 million led by Fortino Capital with participation from Ark Angels Activator Fund, PMV, and investor Dirk Vermunicht. PieSync is a SaaS service aimed as businesses for managing contact information through the cloud regardless of application. According to the company, it fills a gap in […]