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OneTrust, which offers enterprise compliance tools, raises $210M Series C extension led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, bringing its total raised to $920M
London-based mobile game studio Tripledot raises $78M Series A and says it has an 11M active user base, up from 6M six months ago
Tasktop, which reduces time to market and increases the velocity of software development, raises $100M, bringing its total raised to $129M+
Google open sources Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses ML to create high-quality voice calls for low-bandwidth networks or archiving large amounts of speech
Upsolver, which offers low-code SQL tools for cloud data analytics, raises $25M Series B, adds free tools for smaller workloads and says revenue tripled in 2020
Cresta, which offers a service that uses AI to mentor customer service agents in real time, raises $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital
Striim, which offers cloud integration, edge processing, and streaming analytics services, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $108M+
Productiv, which helps businesses manage SaaS apps, raises $45M Series C, bringing its total raised to $73M
Manticore Games, a Roblox-like platform to build and play games using Epic's Unreal Engine, raises $100M Series C led by XN Ventures
AWS announces the general availability of Lookout for Metrics, a service for businesses that uses machine learning to analyze metrics and performance indicators
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Sensor Tower: PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1B in lifetime sales, $2.7B of it in 2020 alone; Tencent says the game surpassed 1B accumulated downloads outside China
Morphisec, which helps mid-size companies thwart cyberattacks and says it helps reduce the costs of security tools, raises $31M led by JVP
EU report warns that AI makes autonomous vehicles ‘highly vulnerable’ to attack
Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations
Coalition, which offers security tools and cybersecurity insurance against data breaches, raises $175M led by Index Ventures
PatSnap, which offers an AI-powered service to help R&D teams analyze the intellectual property landscape, raises $300M Series E led by Tencent and SoftBank
Israel-based Noogata, which is developing tools to help manage big data analytics models, raises $12M seed led by Team8
Centrical, a startup developing an employee engagement and performance management service, raises $32M led by Intel Capital and JVP
LinearB, which develops software engineering management tools for DevOps teams, raises $16M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing total raised to $20.6M
New Jersey-based Pathlock, which offers app security tools for businesses, raises $20M
WorkFusion, which automates repetitive workplace tasks, raises $220M Series F led by Georgian, bringing its total raised to $340M
Privacera, which helps teams access data from multiple clouds while remaining compliant with regulations like GDPR, raises $50M Series B led by Insight Partners
McAfee announces the sale of its enterprise business to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in an all-cash deal worth $4B
Report: in 2020, China overtook the US in the number of AI research citations, fewer AI startups got funded, and the US Congress talked about AI more than ever
Facebook says its new AI model SEER, which was trained with self-supervision on a billion public Instagram images, outperformed advanced fully supervised models
AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark
Comcast says peak US internet traffic rose 32% in 2020 over pre-pandemic traffic, while video streaming rose 70% compared to 2019
Identiq, an anonymous identity validation network, raises $47M Series A led by Insight Partners and Entrée Capital, bringing its total raised to $50M+
Cutover, which lets teams plan, orchestrate, and analyze complex work, raises $35M led by Eldridge, bringing its total funding to $55M
Nuvolo, a cloud-based workplace management software company, raises $31M Series C led by Insight Partners
Sports and esports betting service Rivalry raises $20M ahead of a potential IPO this year, to help it expand to the US
Hyas, which maps the "command and control" structure and communication patterns of bad actors to intercept cyberattacks, raises $16M Series B
Armorblox, which protects enterprise communications using AI, raises $30M Series B led by Next47, bringing its total raised to $46.5M
Amazon announces general availability of Lookout for Vision, a cloud service that spots defects and anomalies in manufactured goods using computer vision
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Katana Graph, which helps businesses analyze and manage unstructured data at scale, raises $28.5M Series A led by Intel Capital
Hubilo, which helps businesses host virtual and hybrid events with real-time analytics, raises $23.5M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
SoundCommerce raises $15M Series A for its service that analyzes retailers' data from across sources like GCP, Snowflake, AWS, Tableau, Azure, Looker, Power BI
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