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Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires Social Media Platform X in $33B Deal To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #software #saas #socialmedia https://lnkd.in/gdJcRUsy

Bain & Company Expands Its Commitment to Social Impact with $2 Billion Pledge To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #software #saas #managementconsulting https://lnkd.in/gmB7kd3w

Axera receives $136 million in funding from Chongqing Industrial Investment Fund, Chongqing Liangjiang Service Industry Fund, Hua Capital, Inno-Chip, Ningbo Tongshang Fund, and Ningbo Zhenhai Industrial Investment. Axera is a high-tech semiconductor company focused on developing world class Artificial intelligence (AI) SoCs for computer applications. To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #software #saas #venturecapital #hightech #semiconductor

Nir Hasson, General Manager and VP of Sales at Aurora Labs, attended NYC Awards Night on March 6, 2025, at the Cornell Club New York. Aurora Labs was highlighted as a Top Software Company of 2024. The event gathered approximately 100 industry leaders and investors across software, healthcare, fintech, and growth investing. Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of AI and Software Intelligence to solve software development challenges. Its Lines-of-Code Intelligence™ (LOCI) delivers real-time insights, continuous quality control, and seamless over-the-air updates for embedded systems and software-defined vehicles.

Entrepreneurship is a marathon of miracles. Building a successful startup is never a straightforward path. The journey is filled with challenges and setbacks, and the real test is maintaining faith and perseverance during the toughest moments. As David Flynn, CEO and Co-Founder of Hammerspace, emphasizes, it’s about surrounding yourself with "miracle workers"—a team capable of pulling off the impossible and staying committed through the hardest times. David’s journey to Hammerspace began with a fascination for technology and a passion for understanding how things work. From his early days working on a missile system flight simulator to founding Fusion-io, which changed the game for data performance, his entrepreneurial spirit has been unwavering. That same drive led to the creation of Hammerspace—a company that’s radically reshaping how unstructured data is used and preserved. Building Hammerspace was not just about getting the technology right; it was about assembling a team that could weather the toughest storms. With this in place, Hammerspace has created a globally accessible data platform that empowers users and applications across edge, data centers, and clouds. Listen on iTunes: https://lnkd.in/gkb-YEkp Listen on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gr2VktSs Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gEaSiiQt Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gvdKV8vJ To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #Entrepreneur #Podcast #DataStorage #GlobalDataPlatform #DataOrchestration #AI

New Survey Shows Executives Increasingly Rely on AI for Business Decisions To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #software #saas #artificialintelligence https://lnkd.in/gNe2Dv9P

SAP Overtakes Novo Nordisk as Europe’s Most Valuable Company To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #software #saas #pharmaceuticals https://lnkd.in/g3-VreNY

How Brandon Daniels Helped Exiger Rise to the Moment Brandon Daniels wasn’t hired to save lives. He was hired to help companies manage risk. But when COVID hit and the federal government needed to vet thousands of suppliers for ventilators, vaccines, and PPE—fast—Daniels, the CEO of Exiger, found himself on the front lines of a very different kind of crisis. In just 45 days, he and his team helped direct billions in emergency purchases, avoiding an estimated $500 million in fraud, waste, and abuse. It was a wake-up call that risk, once viewed as a compliance box to check, had become a strategic imperative. Daniels hadn’t planned on this path. While working in legal tech, he was pulled into a client investigation and discovered a passion for combining technology with investigative problem-solving. That early experience reshaped his career and eventually pushed him to lead a platform designed to help organizations navigate risk in increasingly complex global supply chains. At Exiger, Daniels now helps Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, and defense contractors uncover hidden vulnerabilities across financial crime, foreign influence, ESG, and cybersecurity. The platform goes beyond surface-level checks to trace risk deep into the supply chain—often all the way to the raw material source. That insight proved essential during the pandemic, when Exiger revealed that multiple ventilator manufacturers were unknowingly dependent on a single Italian supplier. It was one of many moments that showed Daniels the value of building tools that help organizations see what others can’t. Under his leadership, Exiger has scaled rapidly, transforming from a consulting firm into a SaaS company with over $100 million in ARR. But Daniels is still focused on the long game: helping businesses grow responsibly, source ethically, and make smarter decisions with better data. 

Rescale receives $115 million in funding from Y Combinator, University of Michigan, Translink Capital, SineWave Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, NVIDIA, NEC Corporation Orchestrating Future Fund, Hitachi Ventures, Hanwha Asset Management Co., Ltd. Deeptech Venture Fund, Foxconn, Atika Capital Management LLC, and Applied Ventures. Rescale advances innovation and scientific discovery by providing a comprehensive digital engineering platform that integrates cloud high-performance computing resources, intelligent data management tools, and applied AI to accelerate modeling and simulation. To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #software #saas #venturecapital #engineering #innovation

Brightly Software Named Wendy Frazier as Chief Technology Officer to Drive Innovation To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Company, click here: https://lnkd.in/gTyq35fK To nominate for Top Cybersecurity Executive, click here: https://lnkd.in/efkmkjA Sign up for our free email newsletter at https://lnkd.in/gNqDJab #software #saas #assets #management #leadership https://lnkd.in/g65ZvmQt