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Iceland’s Frumtak Ventures raises its third, $57M, fund focusing on post-seed and Series A
Frumtak Ventures, one of the few VCs in Iceland, has raised its third fund, Frumtak III. The $57 million (ISK 7b, €48m) fund will focus on post-seed and Series A startups. The firm says its […]
Forto raises $240M in funding round led by Softbank, taking its valuation to $1.2Bn
Freight technology startup, Forto, which we most recently covered when it raised $50 million late last year, is upping the stakes. It’s now raised $240 million in a round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 […]
PlanetScale raises $30M Series B for its database service
PlanetScale, the company behind the open-source Vitess database clustering system for MySQL that was first developed at YouTube, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, […]
Vercel secures $102M to accelerate Next.js adoption
Vercel, a web app deployment platform and developer of the Next.js framework, has secured $102 million in venture funding.Read More
Counterfeit PyPI packages with 5,000 downloads installed cryptominers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Counterfeit packages downloaded roughly 5,000 times from the official Python repository contained secret code that installed cryptomining software on infected machines, a security researcher has found. The malicious packages, which were […]
Akamai: Cyberattacks on gaming grew 340% in pandemic
Gaming faced the highest growth in cyberattacks during the pandemic, according to a report by Akamai Security Research.Read More
Mitiga raises $25M Series A to help organizations respond to cyberattacks
Israeli cloud security startup Mitiga has raised $25 million in a Series A round of funding as it moves to “completely change” the traditional incident response market. Mitiga, unlike other companies in the cybersecurity space, […]
Space Perspective unveils luxury spaceflights lifted by huge balloons
Space Perspective plans to give tourists a gentle ride to the edge of space by attaching vehicles to giant balloons.Read More
Mitiga raises $25M to mitigate cloud cyberattacks
Mitiga, a startup developing a platform to protect cloud environments, raised $25 million in venture capital.Read More