September 2023

Cisco to acquire Splunk in $28B mega deal

September 21, 2023
Cisco has a reputation of building the company through acquisitions, but it tends to stay away from the really huge ones. That changed this morning when the company announced it was acquiring Splunk for $28 billion. With Splunk, it gets an observability platform that could fit nicely into its security business to help customers better […]

Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

September 21, 2023
Since its launch in 2017, Harness, the software delivery platform founded by AppDynamics co-founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal, expanded from being continuous code deployment to covering continuous integration, feature flags, cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, chaos engineering and more. But even though it focused heavily on GitOps, it never offered its own Git repositories. […]

Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M

September 21, 2023
Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Money Forward with participation from Galaxy, Samsung Next, Streamlined  Ventures, SNR.VC, Hike VC, Heitner Group, Valon Capital, Florida Funders, Altair Capital, Network VC and […]

True Anomaly lands $17.4M contract from U.S. Space Force for space domain awareness tech

September 21, 2023
True Anomaly has landed a $17.4 million contract from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to help the warfighter make critical decisions in the space domain. The startup, which was founded less than two years ago, is tasked with developing a suite of space domain awareness (SDA) capabilities for the Space Force. The 48-month-long […]