Chris O'Brien

Deep Instinct announced it has raised $100 million to accelerate deployment of its deep learning cybersecurity models.

Hive wants to encourage machine learning in the cloud by allowing enterprises to access hosted ML models via APIs.

Grip today announced it has raised $6 million in a round led by YL Ventures as the Israeli company develops a new SaaS security approach.

Following the acquisition by Twilio, Segment is focused on a building the next generation of customer data management tools.

According to Canalys, companies are spending record sums on cybersecurity, and yet the number of successful attacks is higher than ever.

The Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud report released today highlights top issues for companies embracing the cloud.

According to Canalys, shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations increased by 25% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to Q4 2019.

When Priyanka Sharma became general manager of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, she inherited a thriving open source community challenged by COVID-19.

AI startups globally raised $8.4 billion in Q1 2020, up from $5.58 billion the previous quarter and roughly flat compared to Q2 and Q3 2019.

While overall venture capital funding dipped in 2019, the AI sector bucked this trend by reaching an historic high for money raised by startups.

Paris-based BlaBlaCar has offered to acquire Russian bus platform Busfor as the carpooling king continues evolving to meet changing mobility demands.

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The trend of tech mega campuses continues to transform the face of Silicon Valley, thanks to companies with nearly unlimited pools of cash building palatial headquarters designed to keep employees within arm’s reach. Case […]

We’re thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of “Playing the Edge.” Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today! As Paris-based […]

Feature From the time that Laurel Duermaël and her husband Adrien left France to pursue their startup dreams in Silicon Valley, it seemed that nothing went as planned. But somehow, through a failed video game startup, battles with cofounders, the loss of personal savings, and the stress of living in a strange land, their tale has arrived at the […]

Paris-based Coorpacademy announced today it has raised a new round of $11 million in venture capital as it seeks to build out its online platform for corporate education. Investors in the new round include Serena Capital, NextStageAM, and Debiopharm Investment funds. Launched in 2013, Coorpacademy hopes to use the new money to expand across Europe and […]

Following a permanent suspension from Twitter, conservative pundit Milo Yiannopoulos has filed a series of data requests with the social networking company demanding that they turn over all of his personal data. The tech editor of the conservative news site Breitbert says he is entitled to this information under British and Irish law. The move is part of […]

Google announced today that it has acquired Paris-based Moodstocks, a startup that has developed machine learning technology to bolster the image recognition features on smartphones. “We continue to pursue our machine learning and research efforts,” wrote Vincent Simonet, head of the research and development team for France Google, “and Moodstocks is the latest proof of our commitment to this area.” […]

The Switzerland-based company behind the Doodle online scheduling service announced today that it has acquired Meekan, a scheduling chatbot developed in Israel. “The integration of Meekan enables Doodle’s next step forward,” said Christoph Brand, head of the digital division at Tamedia, which owns Doodle, in a press release. “The chatbot as an intelligent virtual assistant allows fast scheduling […]

Over the past weekend, I got a chance to see and hear from 20 impressive music startups working on everything from aggregation to hardware at the Midemlab startup contest in Cannes.

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. As part of a sweeping set of digital reforms under consideration, the French government has taken steps to simultaneously embrace and regulate the esports industry. The esports rules are part of a larger package of proposals known as the […]