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Amazon launches $1B fund to invest in supply chain technology companies
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to invest $1 billion in companies developing supply chain technologies such as warehouse robots. The investments will be made through a new fund known as the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund. Amazon said that it plans to back a variety of companies ranging from early-stage startups to more established firms. The ...
Elon Musk secures $46.5B in financing commitments to acquire Twitter
Elon Musk has secured $46.5 billion in financing commitments to take Twitter Inc. private, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that was released today. Earlier this month, Musk announced that he had bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter worth about $2.89 billion. Shortly thereafter, the Tesla Inc. Chief Executive made ...
Amazon invests in 37 new renewable energy projects
Amazon.com Inc. today announced that it’s investing in 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, including wind farms, solar farms and rooftop solar panel installations. The investment is expected to make an additional 3 gigawatts of clean energy capacity available for the company. Amazon eventually plans to power its entire operations using clean energy ...
Statsig raises $43M to help companies improve their software products
Sequoia Capital has led a $43 million funding round for Statsig Inc., a startup that helps companies find ways to improve their applications and websites. The investment, which Statsig announced today, also included the participation of Madrona Venture Group. It comes only six months after the startup’s previous funding round. Statsig, which didn’t generate any ...
Just Eat Takeaway.com exploring sale of Grubhub less than year after acquisition
Just Eat Takeaway.com NV today said that it’s exploring a sale of food delivery app Grubhub, which it acquired for $7.3 billion in a deal that closed less than a year ago. Publicly traded Just Eat Takeaway.com is a major player in the food delivery market. The Netherlands-based company emerged from the 2019 merger of ...
Report: Investment firm Apollo could back bid to take Twitter private
Investment firm Apollo Global Management Inc. could back an effort to take Twitter Inc. private, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday. Last week, Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk made an offer to acquire Twitter for $43 billion. A few days later, it was reported that private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC has also ...
ThreatLocker nabs $100M to block malware in enterprise networks
ThreatLocker Inc. today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round to build more features for its cybersecurity platform, which prevents malware from running on companies’ information technology infrastructure. General Atlantic led the Series C round. Existing ThreatLocker investors Elephant VC and Arthur Ventures participated as well. ThreatLocker’s platform allows a company to ...
Fortress raises $125M in funding to secure software supply chains
Startup Fortress Information Security LLC, whose technology helps protect 40% of the U.S. power grid from cybersecurity risks, has raised $125 million in funding. Fortress announced the investment today, detailing that it was provided entirely by Goldman Sachs’s private equity group. The company has raised a total of $160 million in funding since launch. The ...
Microsoft debuts Azure Managed Grafana to simplify IT monitoring
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Azure cloud platform with a new managed service, Azure Managed Grafana, that will make it easier for companies to find and troubleshoot technical issues in their cloud environments. The service is currently in preview. It’s the fruit of a collaboration with startup Grafana Labs Inc. that Microsoft announced last year. ...
Healthcare staffing platform Clipboard Health valued at $1.3B after raising $80M
Clipboard Health, a startup with an on-demand staffing platform for the healthcare sector, today announced that it has raised $80 million in funding. The funding was raised over two rounds: a $50 million round in 2021 and a $30 million investment that Clipboard Health closed earlier this year. The latter investment, which was led by ...