Jeff Elder
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A top Israeli VC names the 15 startups to watch in the country's booming cybersecurity scene, which has already taken $1.6 billion in investment this year
Top Israeli VC John Brennan told Insider his funding strategy and named 15 hot cybersecurity startups to watch. → Read More
The CEO of $47 billion cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike says that the company's monster quarter is a sign that the industry is ready to move beyond legacy vendors like Microsoft
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says his company is poised to lead cloud security companies past older companies that have let the world down. → Read More
Colleges are racing to address the 'chasm' between technical and business people as a divided workforce returns to workplaces
Academia is addressing the communications gap between engineers and business-focused workers, but the return to work may exacerbate it. → Read More
The CEO of $28 billion Databricks explains how its new bet on helping users share their data will make the AI industry 'take off, really explode'
Ali Ghodsi, the CEO of $28 billion artificial intelligence startup Databricks, has bet big on widespread AI adoption over short-term sales. → Read More
More companies are using AI to find and screen job candidates – here's what job seekers need to know
Job-seekers, here's how companies are now using AI to interview and hire candidates after changes due to public criticism, lawsuits, and regulation. → Read More
$2.8 billion AI startup DataRobot just hired the CFO who helped lead Tableau to its $15.7 billion acquisition on its path to IPO
The $2.8 billion artificial intelligence startup DataRobot hires a veteran chief financial officer, two months after naming a new CEO. → Read More
A Microsoft study shows that stress is causing workers to make mistakes that leave their companies' data vulnerable, but confronting them can make things worse
Exhausted employees are making mistakes that expose company data, and how employers address that insider risk can be a combustible managerial dilemma. → Read More
The Colonial Pipeline hack finally made the ransomware crisis real for America, and Americans got really mad
Colonial Pipeline hackers have made Americans fighting mad about ransomware, a cybercrime that has paralyzed businesses for years, experts say. → Read More
Biden's big cybersecurity executive order will be a windfall for both massive firms like CrowdStrike and niche startups like Dragos, experts say
The winners in Biden's cybersecurity order will be big cloud-security companies and niche startups, which may become acquisition targets, experts say. → Read More
Microsoft says the key to helping exhausted workers deal with the return to the office and rise of hybrid work is 'digital empathy'
The new hybrid work model will add new dangers to the lives of exhausted workers, so Microsoft is urging "digital empathy" for employees. → Read More
Read the pitch deck that South Dakota-based Query.AI used to raise its first-ever funding
The "Silicon Prairie" startup is launching with $4.6 million in seed funding in a round led by ClearSky Security. → Read More
Here's why a key investor in Snowflake and UiPath is betting big on VAST Data, a hot startup that tripled its valuation in a year to $3.7 billion
VAST is a New York-based startup that's trying to make it cheaper and easier for companies to store and analyze their data for building AI. → Read More
Sending them home was the easy part: IT departments are bracing for the challenge of keeping employees safe when they can work anywhere, anytime
Companies that bet big on cloud computing and security are much better positioned to evolve with the workforce of the 2020s, executives say. → Read More
Microsoft, Amazon, FireEye, and over 60 other firms teamed up with the FBI for a massive report on how to fight the ransomware crisis sweeping the globe
The 80-page Cybersecurity Task Force report has recommendations for the White House on how to deal with one of cybersecurity's worst problems. → Read More
CEO Jensen Huang has evolved the $300 billion Nvidia from video-game hardware to AI to autonomous car tech — here's how he sees around every corner
Jensen Huang, 58, can't imagine not running Nvidia, which he grew from making computer-graphics software to broad artificial-intelligence platforms. → Read More
Big cybersecurity startups like Tanium, Netskope, and SentinelOne are dragging their heels on going public because they don't need the money or the trouble
Unicorn cybersecurity startups like Tanium, Netskope, and SentinelOne are taking longer to IPO, despite massive valuations and funding rounds. → Read More
Ex-Tanium employees say they're receiving bids to buy their shares, but the company often grabs those shares itself
Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi has gone back and forth on an IPO for years. Now former employees are receiving LinkedIn messages asking to buy their shares. → Read More
The CEO of $9 billion-plus Tanium says the company has hired a new CFO to assess the possibility of holding its long-awaited IPO
Tanium has hired a chief financial officer to do a "readiness assessment" of whether the company can begin the process of going public, the CEO said. → Read More
Meet the four women behind Dcode Capital, the VC firm that's helping startups learn how to land millions in government deals
The four managing partners of Dcode Capital are women pulling together the male-dominated worlds of government, startups, and investing. → Read More
Accel's early stake in UiPath could deliver a $6 billion windfall as one of Europe's first 'decacorns' goes public
UiPath is going public at a valuation of around $29 billion. The exit will be huge for Accel, a key early investor. → Read More