Cyberthreats are on the rise everywhere. Companies are facing a barrage of attacks from hackers near and far, and their security operations centers are struggling to keep up. They can no longer rely on manual processes to respond to automated attacks, forcing security chiefs to consider new approaches to automating their defenses. That’s where JASK […]
View More JASK nets $25m from Kleiner to build out autonomous security operationsCategory: Kleiner Perkins
Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins is said to be leaving to start her own fund
Beth Seidenberg joined Kleiner Perkins 13 years ago to focus on life sciences for the storied venture firm. Now, according to a Recode report, she’s heading off to start her own life sciences venture fund in L.A. where she lives. We’ve reached out to Kleiner and we’re awaiting more information. But the firm seemed to […]
View More Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins is said to be leaving to start her own fundFree stock trading app Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with new funding round
Robinhood started off as a dead-simple stock trading application that had no transaction fees — but since it’s continued to grow, and especially as it starts to dive into cryptocurrenty, investors are getting pretty excited about its prospects and are pouring a ton of new funding into it. And it’s that tantalizing prospect of creating a […]
View More Free stock trading app Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with new funding roundTribe combines arcade games with group video chat
Sick of chatting but want to stay connected? Tribe‘s app lets you play clones of Space Invaders, Flappy Bird, Fruit Ninja, Name That Tune and more while video chatting with up to seven friends or strangers. Originally a video messaging app, Tribe failed to gain traction in the face of Snapchat and Facebook Messenger. But […]
View More Tribe combines arcade games with group video chatLate-blooming startups can still thrive
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Corporate bio VCs are backing more rounds and making bigger bets Front-door tech is hot, and it’s not just Amazon who wants in It seems like startup news is full of overnight success stories and sudden failures, like the scooter rental company that went from zero to […]
View More Late-blooming startups can still thriveMagic Leap gets $461M more, Travis goes VC, and HQ Trivia scales up
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a corking set of news to get through, so we rounded up the usual gang (Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof, and myself), and brought in Eric Feng from Kleiner Perkins to help us get under the skin of the latest. He was the right person to have in… Read More
UiPath confirms $153M at $1.1B valuation from Accel, CapitalG and KP for its “software robots”
Last week, we reported that UiPath, a startup out of Romania building AI-based services for enterprises in the area of robotic process automation (RPA) — helping businesses automate mundane tasks in back-office IT systems — was about to close a big round, upwards of $120 million at a $1 billion-plus valuation. Today, the company is making it official (and officially… Read More
Former Dropbox exec Ilya Fushman is joining Kleiner Perkins from Index Ventures
Ilya Fushman, a former Dropbox executive most recently at Index Ventures, is joining Kleiner Perkins as a general partner and managing member, the firm said today. Fushman is a big pickup for Kleiner Perkins, who also brought on Social+Capital’s Mamoon Hamid in August last year. All these hires give the impression that Kleiner Perkins, with a storied history but one looking for fresh… Read More
Practice Fusion, once poised for a blockbuster IPO, sells at a loss to Allscripts
Practice Fusion was written about several years ago as a company on the brink of going public. In 2015, JPMorgan, working with Practice Fusion, estimated that the company could be assigned a valuation of around $1.5 billion if it went public in 2…
View More Practice Fusion, once poised for a blockbuster IPO, sells at a loss to Allscripts