Chinese edge startup nets $14 million; will funding door slam shut?
A newly profitable edge-based cloud-service startup in China has closed a $14 million Series A+ round. That is the good…
Funding
Tracking investments in the companies in the edge services ecosystem, along with trends and related developments. Includes funding from angel and seed rounds to debt instruments, stock offerings, and related financial news.
Investors find AI hardware an attractive opportunity; researchers put AI in an eye
Investors continue to see value in artificial intelligence chips operating on the edge. Two such chip companies received a total…
Talespin gets $15 million and a new outlet for its VR training products
Virtual and augmented reality corporate trainer Talespin has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Cornerstone OnDemand,…
Hardware roundup: edge-optimized servers, software-defined AI hardware, edge-cloud network services
SolidRun has partnered with Gyrfalcon Technology to develop an edge-optimized ARM-based AI inference server to improve GPU performance while reducing…
Edge vendors are finding new ways to make a little electricity go a long way
Eta Compute Inc. is shipping the first production silicon for what it says is the first-ever artificial intelligence multicore chip…
Could this startup be the Amazon AWS of space?
Fresh out of stealth mode, executives at a combined edge software company and investment firm called NewSpace Networks said they…
Netskope takes a $340 million round, is valued at $3 billion
Cloud access security broker Netskope Inc. last week closed a $340 million investment led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities, giving…
Low-Earth orbit is suddenly the hottest Internet domain
The needs of edge computing are turning the edge of space into an entrepreneurial playground. A space startup in France…
$20 million in venture funding for NGD Systems’ computational storage drive
Enterprise storage player NGD Systems has reported a $20 million financing round from a collection of investors including an investment…
Venture money to bring LoRa sensors to SST Wireless
Venture capital firm Momenta Ventures has made an investment in SST Wireless, which makes wireless sensors that are placed in…
