Author: OurCrowd

[Kenna Security in CB Insights] The periodic table of cybersecurity startups

Mar 23, 2017 |

We put together a periodic table of cybersecurity that spotlights the top startups, industry categories, investors, and top exits since 2012. Public companies are excluded from the table. The unicorn company Okta, recently filed for IPO and it is also excluded. The table is meant to serve as a guide to navigate the key players in the space. The companies and investors in the table were chosen using CB Insights data and analytics on company momentum, financial health, and investor quality. The categories in our table are not all mutually exclusive. Below is the full periodic table of cybersecurity. Read more on CB Insights...

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[BriefCam in Benzinga] Quantum to highlight data management solutions for meeting video surveillance storage challenges at ISC West 2017

Mar 22, 2017 |

“BriefCam’s Syndex Pro facilitates turning video data into actionable information for improving security, optimizing operations and gaining valuable business insights. Analytics benefit from having more data available over longer periods of time, and Quantum’s multi-tier storage can enable companies to store more data cost-effectively for longer periods. This partnership will promote best-of-breed video analytics solutions across various markets and applications.” Read more on Benzinga...

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[mPrest in The Jerusalem Post] Iron Dome startup to provide critical support to New York Power Authority

Mar 22, 2017 | ,

The startup responsible for the command and control system behind the Iron Dome missile defense system is now supplying critical infrastructure support to New York’s largest public power organization. The Petah Tikvah-based mPrest, a provider of mission- critical monitoring, control and analytics software for utilities, has deployed a predictive health analytics application to enhance the operational reliability and cost effectiveness of the New York Power Authority’s assets network, the partners recently announced. Read more on The Jerusalem Post...

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[Social Bicycles in Medium] Bike share: The dawn of the Smartbike (and the death of dock-blocking)

Mar 21, 2017 |

At the conference, I met a shaggy-haired ex-transportation planner named Ryan Rzepecki, who had even bigger goals for improving bike share globally. His company, Social Bicycles, was developing a new type of bike share system with bikes that could be locked to any public bike rack or street sign, had real-time GPS to track the bicycles’ locations, and, most importantly, users were not limited to beginning and ending their trips at docking stations. He’d designed a model to solve the biggest problems with bike share: reliable dock availability, expensive equipment, and inefficient operations. For a moment I almost laughed because I had literally just written the book on bike share and I knew, as everyone else did, that bike share bikes required docking points…unless they didn’t. Read more on Medium...

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