Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
October 23, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: October 23, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Accenture is making a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender, an RSA Innovation award-winning cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection. Together, Accenture and Reality Defender will equip clients in the financial services, media, and high-tech industries with the ability to rapidly identify, detect, respond to, and prevent deepfake fraud.
Qpoint, the provider of comprehensive visibility and control over external service dependencies and traffic flows for modern, highly connected applications, is announcing the close of its pre-seed funding, having raised $4 million. This funding—which was led by Mango Capital with participation from Preface Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta—will fuel Qpoint's product development for its eBPF-based external dependency and traffic flow monitoring technology.
Semantic Web Company and Ontotext announced that the two organizations are merging to create a knowledge graph and AI powerhouse, Graphwise. Semantic Web Company brings expertise in knowledge engineering, semantic AI, and intelligent document processing, while Ontotext brings the most versatile graph database engine and state-of-the-art AI models for linking and unifying information at scale.
Sidero Labs, a leading software developer focused on providing innovative solutions to help lower the friction in managing Kubernetes and containerized applications, is announcing the completion of a recent investment round, having raised $4 million. This funding—led by Hiro Capital with participation from Sony Innovation Fund—will boost Sidero Labs' product development, focusing on solving the operational challenges of running production Kubernetes clusters.