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Venture Capital

Nerdio raises $500M as AI drives up cloudtech

March 18, 2025

The cloud management startup raised a Series C led by General Atlantic.

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AI

Nvidia-backed Lambda raises $480M as AI neocloud funding surges

February 19, 2025

VC funding for neoclouds grew 270% in 2024 as companies like Lambda capitalize on the demand for AI computing power

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AI

CoreWeave secures $650M secondary sale from Cisco, Fidelity as it eyes 2025 IPO

November 13, 2024

The GPU cloud provider’s secondary sale is the latest example of an IPO candidate generating liquidity for its shareholders and employees.

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Cloud

Amazon lures generative AI startups to its cloud

April 3, 2023

Amazon Web Services is launching a generative AI accelerator for startups, taking on Microsoft and its Azure Cloud Services.

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Public-to-Private

PE investors offer patient capital to tech companies in take-privates

October 9, 2022

Some tech companies are going private in order to tackle business transitions amid a volatile market.

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Cloud

Insight Partners values Swiss software specialist at $5B in latest takeover

January 8, 2020

Insight Partners has acquired software company Veeam in an effort to build out its US presence. We spoke with Insight managing director Mike Triplett about the deal.

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Cloud

Upstart chipmaker Innovium, on brink of unicorn valuation, seeks funding

November 3, 2019

Faced with high costs, semiconductor chip startups have long struggled to raise venture capital. But Innovium is leading the next generation, seeking to raise up to $50 million in Series E funding.

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Google

A $2.6B takeover of Looker shows Google’s head is in the cloud

June 5, 2019

Google has agreed to purchase business intelligence analytics platform provider Looker for $2.6 billion, marking its biggest acquisition in five years.

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SaaS

Big Blue dons Red Hat in $34B deal

October 28, 2018

IBM’s deal for Red Hat represents a roughly 10x multiple on the company’s predicted revenue for next year. With that hefty figure, Big Blue’s following the SaaS-quisition crowd.

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Big Things

Six big things: This week’s VC forecast? Lots of clouds

August 29, 2018

The cloud funding craze continues, NEA logs a stratospheric return and the rest of the highlights from the past week in VC.

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Venture Capital

Why 3 cloud startup founders think it’s worth competing against tech giants

June 26, 2018

At the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit on Wednesday, a trio of cloud startup founders sounded off on competition from heavyweights in the space.

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M&A

IBM’s focus on AI, cloud boosts Dow past 23,000

October 17, 2017

IBM surged to its best gain in eight years after reporting better-than-expected results driven by AI, cloud, and blockchain initiatives.

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M&A

Ahead of the curve: M&A key to Adobe’s cloud conversion

June 8, 2017

About five years ago, Adobe started to ask its customers to convert to a cloud-based subscription model to purchase and update products from its prized Creative Suite. M&A has been key to its success.

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Venture Capital

Cloudera comes down to earth, facing major IPO haircut

April 16, 2017

Cloudera has set terms for its IPO, estimating an initial market cap that would value the Big Data company at less than half of its most recent private valuation.

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Venture Capital

Cloudera IPO: A look inside the filing

April 2, 2017

Big Data company Cloudera officially filed for its public offering last week, giving us a look inside the startups business.

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Private Equity

Rackspace in place for Apollo’s $4.3B take-private deal

August 25, 2016

Apollo Global Management is taking Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) private for a reported $4.3 billion. The deal represents the last best chance that Rackspace has to innovate and compete in cloud-computing.

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Venture Capital

There’s a Party in the Cloud… BYOD!

September 10, 2013

There’s a movement going on and it’s shaking up the venture capital scene. It’s called the BYOD (bring your own device) movement.

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