Exaforce raises $75M in Series-A funding for SOC innovation

We’re excited to share that Cyberwave has raised a new funding round led by United Ventures, with our participation and the one from The Techshop SGR Pi Campus and others to build the connective tissue between AI and the physical world. Today, physical automation is fragmented; every system speaks a different language. Cyberwave offers a unified approach: one API, sim-to-real workflows, and an orchestration layer that helps developers deploy and manage autonomy at scale. This round will support platform expansion, deeper integrations with leading industrial systems, and growth into new sectors and markets. Big congrats Cyberwave team! The sky’s the limit!

💡 Self-Financed. On Purpose. In tech, it’s common to chase venture capital early: Pitch decks. Seed rounds. Hype-driven growth. We went a different way. From the start, DataVault was built without institutional funding. ✅ No venture capital. ✅ No private equity. ✅ No “strategic partners” with veto rights. Instead, ownership is shared equally between the original founders through private holding companies. Our structure ensures decisions are made for the long-term. Not for a quarterly return. That independence lets us prioritize what really matters: ✅ Building physically secure, air-gapped Coldstorage systems ✅ Saying no to compromises in hardware and software ✅ Making security decisions as engineers, not accountants It wasn’t fast. It wasn’t easy. But it gave us the freedom to build DataVault right. When your mission is to protect data from every threat, independence is not a luxury, it’s a requirement. 👉 Learn more at www.datavault.dk #DataVault #Coldstorage #NotABackup #IndependentTech #CyberResilience #ImmutableStorage #AirGap #BuiltNotFunded

We’ve put together this quick news compilation, which we missed this week. Check them out here: https://lnkd.in/gWrtgd3h NanoPhoria raises €83.5M in Series A Trogenix raises €80M in Series A round 011h raises €20M in funding keenest 🌈 gets €10M capital raise Sitehop raises €8.6M funding Agio Ratings gets €5M Starflow bags €4.3M in capital sees.ai secures €4.1M Dragonfly raises €2.9M funding Munro EV secures €2.2M funding Diffly raises €1.3M CBRX raises €540K Salesforce acquires Apromore #SiliconCanals #News #Funding

Were LLMs sold wrong to enterprises? 📌 Very interesting what Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, said about LLMs in enterprises. From my interpretation: ⚠️ The problem isn’t the models themselves. The models are not broken, but the way they were marketed and deployed in enterprises created unrealistic expectations. 🔧 Without the right context, structure, or controls, LLMs are not plug-and-play solutions that could magically solve business problems. ✅ In my view, this is what Palantir’s core applications like Foundry and AIP offer: LLMs grounded in ONTOLOGY, with the right context, structure, and governance so companies get insights they can actually use. https://lnkd.in/egy3xxDf

Got to love John Ruffolo's writing and how he comments on things. I don't know anything about Fermi (good or bad) but when he ends his post with "What could possibly go wrong?", it had me clicking and googling Fermi. The reason this caught my attention is because I have been doing some research on another company and how they did a "concept IPO" which is something you don't hear much of. Concept IPO generally refers to an IPO with no meaningful revenue stream(s), no major customer(s), and, more oddly, no viable product. The IPO is based on a "concept". I plan to do an article on this as I was thinking the same thing, what could go wrong?

Lift off! We’re proud to announce that Grafana Labs has blasted past $400M ARR and 7,000 customers worldwide. We’ve also completed a secondary transaction led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan with Sapphire Ventures, Tiger Global, and existing investors. As our CEO Raj Dutt told Forbes: “The need to monitor system performance more closely will only increase as the tech industry continues to accelerate with AI. It’s more important than ever at this moment in time.” To our community — thank you for being part of this open observability mission with us. Read more from Richard Nieva at Forbes: https://lnkd.in/ef3q6PHS