Ingrid Lunden

March 13, 2025

UiPath is looking for a path to growth in agentic AI with its Peak.ai acquisition

UiPath has acquired Peak.ai, a startup out of Manchester that builds “decision-making” pricing and inventory management AI solutions.

March 12, 2025

Project Europe, a new early stage fund, will back under-25s with $200K to build the next tech titan

A recurring theme in Europe’s tech world is that the region needs its own Google or Microsoft, and that in this day and age, to be more resilient and independent, it should, could and must build it. Now comes the launch of a new fund to support this initiative. Project Europe — a new fund […]

March 12, 2025

Pentera nabs $60M at a $1B+ valuation to build simulated network attacks to train security teams

Strong and smart security operations teams are at the heart of any cybersecurity strategy, and today a startup that builds tooling to help keep them on their toes is announcing some funding on the back of a lot of growth. Pentera — which has built a system that launches simulations of network attacks to stress […]

March 11, 2025

Sola emerges from stealth with $30M to build the ‘Stripe for security’

Enterprises these days can choose from hundreds of apps and services available to secure their networks, data and assets — nearly as many more to help them manage all the alerts and extra work that those security apps generate. But what if you could build your own apps, customised to your own workloads, to simplify […]

March 10, 2025

Nirvana keeps on truckin’ with $80M at a $830M valuation for its AI-powered insurance

As the U.S. trucking industry gears up for the negative impacts of new Trump tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, a startup building a new kind of trucking insurance — a critical cost for truck drivers — has raised some money to grow, and (it hopes) help truckers weather the changes. Nirvana, an AI-based […]

March 6, 2025

Armis buys Otorio for $120M to beef up cybersecurity in physical spaces

More consolidation is playing out in the security industry as platform players scoop up technology to give them deeper expertise in growing business areas. On Thursday, Armis, a $4.2 billion specialist in cyber exposure management, said it would be acquiring Otorio, a specialist in securing industrial and physical environments. Terms of the deal are not […]

March 6, 2025

Armis buys Otorio for $120M to beef up cybersecurity in physical spaces

March 6, 2025

Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation

As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in fulfilling that effort is announcing a significant round of funding to expand. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects — […]

March 6, 2025

Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts

AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy […]

March 5, 2025

Grain emerges from stealth with $50M to help any business hedge against FX volatility

Foreign exchange fluctuations can make or break a business that trades across borders, but keeping up and responding to the FX market can be tricky if you’re anything smaller than the world’s largest enterprises. Today, a startup called Grain is emerging from stealth with a product that it says will let finance teams at companies […]