Monday February 6, 2012

Log Data Management And Analytics Startup Sumo Logic Raises $15M From Greylock And Others

Sumo Logic, a startup focused on enterprise log management and analytics, has raised $15 million in Series B funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with participation from previous investors Greylock Partners and angel investor Shlomo Kramer. The new funding brings the startup’s total venture capital backing to $20.5 million. Today, Sumo Logic emerged from [...]

Cloud Enterprise Performance Analytics Startup Tidemark Raises $24M From Redpoint, Andreessen Horowitz

Enterprise-focused cloud performance analytics company Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has raised $24 million in new funding led by Redpoint Ventures with existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday participating. This brings the total amount raised to more than $35 million. Redpoint partner Geoff Yang will join Tidemark’s [...]

AppDynamics Lands $20M From KPCB, Others For Application Performance Management Solutions

AppDynamics, which specializes in application performance management (APM) solutions for high-maintenance Web apps, has raised $20 million in funding in a Series C round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Previous backers Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated. With even mission-critical software applications increasingly moving to distributed, cloud-based architectures, AppDynamics’ solutions aim [...]

Exclusive: ThreatMetrix Acquires TrustDefender To Protect Cloud From Fraud

As companies move their data out from behind firewalls into the cloud and employees use self-provisioned mobile devices, infosecurity must change. That’s why cybercrime prevention provider ThreatMetrix will announce tomorrow its acquisition of TrustDefender, which detects malware-based attacks. ThreatMetrix can now offer an integrated fraud protection solution that verifies the identity and integrity of any [...]

‘Big Data’ Giant Mu Sigma Raises $108 Million From General Atlantic, Sequoia

Mu Sigma, a provider of analytics and data-driven decision support services for enterprise customers, has raised $108 million in funding in a round led by growth equity firm General Atlantic. The financing comes about half a year after Mu Sigma raised $25 million from Sequoia Capital, which also participated in this round. Headquartered in Chicago [...]

Enterprise Security Company Cyber-Ark Raises $40M From Goldman Sachs, JVP

Cyber-Ark Software, which provides identity management solutions to financial institutions and other enterprise customers worldwide, has raised a healthy $40 million in venture capital funding in a round led by Goldman Sachs and Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). Founded in 1999, Cyber-Ark had previously raised $25 million from angel investors and VCs. The company provides information [...]

PARC Spin-Out PowerCloud Systems Raises $6 Million From Qualcomm

PowerCloud Systems, a spin-out of Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that offers a ‘networking-as-a-service’ platform for OEMs and service providers, has raised $6 million in Series B funding in a round led by Qualcomm Ventures, with prior backers Walden Venture Capital, Javelin Venture Partners and PARC participating. The capital will be used to enhance the [...]

Cloud Database Startup Xeround Raises $9.3M From Benchmark And Others

Database virtualization startup Xeround has raised $9.3 million in Series C funding Benchmark Capital, Giza Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership. This brings the startup’s total funding to over $30 million. Xeround offers a cloud database-as-a-service for MySQL-based applications. Currently the service is offered for EC2 MySQL databases, as well as Rackspace-MySQL and Heroku-MySQL [...]

‘Small Cell’ Maker ip.access Raises $15M From Intel, Qualcomm And Others

Cambridge, UK-based ip.access, which offers femtocell and picocell solutions to mobile operators worldwide, has raised $15 million in new funding from some of its previous investors. The financing round comes from Intel Capital, Cisco, Qualcomm, Amadeus Capital Partners, Rothschild & Cie Gestion, Scottish Equity Partners and TE Connectivity. ip.access CEO Simon Brown says the capital [...]

Apple: 100 Million Downloads From Mac App Store In Less Than One Year

Apple this morning announced that there are now over half a million applications available in the mobile applications-specific App Store, and that over 100 million of apps have been downloaded from the desktop software marketplace Mac App Store in less than a year after its debut. When the Mac App Store opened for business on [...]