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Sqreen Closes $14 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Greylock Partners & Y Combinator
6Apr By NitishNo Comments
FUNDING

Sqreen Closes $14 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Greylock Partners & Y Combinator

SAN FRANCISCO- Sqreen, the industry’s first provider of Application Security Management (ASM), today announced the close of a $14 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners with Y Combinator and previous investors Alven Capital and Point Nine also participating. Greylock partner Sarah Guo joins the board. To date, Sqreen has raised more than $18 million in total funding. Sqreen’s ASM platform, used to protect more than 500 companies around the world today, is a modern approach to security in production for web applications and cloud workloads. ASM  leverages microagents embedded in applications to identify and automatically protect against threats in real time. Sqreen is easy to use and deploy. With no software code modifications, Sqreen can be up and running and pr...
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Facebook Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup Ozlo For Messnger
1Aug By RishabhNo Comments
ACQUISITION

Facebook Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup Ozlo For Messnger

Facebook has recently acquired its former Head of Platform for Android, Charles Jolley's conversational AI Startup Ozlo.  The Ozlo team is expected to join Facebook to work on natural language processing challenges. Ozlo will be working with Facebook on building experience powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning in blog post shown below. The four-year-old start-up claims that its virtual assistants can understand and provide answers to questions which do not have simple "yes" or "no" answers. Ozlo launched with a consumer-facing app in Oct. 2016 and with this acquisition it is no longer independent and the conversational AI space grows just a bit more consolidated. “1.2 billion people around the world use Messenger to connect with the people and businesses the...
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