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JENTIS raises €11m Series A to make universal data capture a reality

November 2023 INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE JENTIS raises €11m Series A to make universal data capture a reality The funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, joined by 3TS Capital Partners and Pragmatech Ventures, will fuel product development and accelerate market expansion. JENTIS, a leader in next-gen data capture technology, today announced that it raised €11 million in a Series A funding round led by Bright Pixel (former Sonae IM) and new co-investor 3TS Capital Partners, with the participation from existing investor Pragmatech Ventures. JENTIS empowers businesses to own and control their web data capture independently of third parties. Its breakthrough technology enables radically improved data accuracy for business insights while complying with privacy regulations worldwide. The funding round follows a year of high growth for JENTIS as businesses demand first-party data capture and data protection compliance. Its unique server-side tracking technology that shifts website data collection from users’ browsers to a...
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Infraspeak’s Intelligent Facilities and Maintenance Management Platform banks 17.5M€ Series A

July 2023 BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Infraspeak’s Intelligent Facilities and Maintenance Management Platform banks 17.5M€ Series A The latest 7.5M€ extension from Bright Pixel brings the company’s Series A funding to 17.5M€ and will allow Infraspeak to consolidate its European leadership and keep actively recruiting top talent. Infraspeak, the leading European and South American Intelligent Maintenance Management Platform (IMMP), headquartered in Portugal, has secured a Series A extension round of 7.5M€, led by Bright Pixel (former Sonae IM), capital risk investment arm of Sonae group. The round comes eighteen months after a 10M€ funding round, and also included current investors Caixa Capital and 500 Global. In total, Infraspeak raised 17.5M€ in its Series A round. As facilities are increasingly more complex, clients are becoming more demanding and cost-controlling, and regulations add more pressure to operational teams, it is crucial to bring intelligence and agility to a sector that still relies on outdated...
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Seldon secures $20 Million in Series B funding led by Bright Pixel

March 2023 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Seldon secures $20 Million in Series B funding led by Bright Pixel The strategic funding aims to expand Seldon’s machine learning product’s market fit and unlock enterprise-ready solutions based on open source. Seldon, a data-centric machine learning operations (MLOps) platform for the deployment, management, monitoring and explainability of machine learning (ML) models, announced a $20M Series B funding round today. The round was led by new investor Bright Pixel (former Sonae IM) with significant participation from existing investors AlbionVC, Cambridge Innovation Capital, and Amadeus Capital Partners. Organizations are investing heavily in AI but many are struggling to scale out their models in production due to bottlenecks in team workflows, increased regulation and compliance restraints, a lack of trust in model outputs, and ensuring peak model performance are all top of mind for AI-powered enterprises. Seldon empowers Data Scientists, ML Engineers and other business stakeholders to accelerate...
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Codacy raises $15 million in Series B funding led by Bright Pixel Capital

September 2022 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Codacy raises $15 million in Series B funding led by Bright Pixel Capital Codacy has raised over $28m to date and already counts a base of more than 870 customers, including Panasonic, Delivery Hero, Harvey Nichols and Delhivery Funding will accelerate product development to continuously build Codacy’s DevOps Intelligence Platform providing engineering insights enabling teams to reach their full potential Codacy, a platform that helps software development teams to ship high-quality code faster, has raised a $15m Series B funding round, marking another milestone in its journey to become the leading provider for DevOps Intelligence. Bright Pixel Capital, a leading technology investment group focused on digital infrastructure software, cybersecurity, and retail technology, led the round. Existing investors Armilar Venture Partners, Faber Ventures, Join Capital, Caixa Capital, EQT Ventures and Iberis Capital also participated in the round. In a world where most companies want to digitalise and...
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Portainer.io Closes US$6.2 Million Funding Round

June 2022 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Portainer.io Closes US$6.2 Million Funding Round Portainer.io today announced it has closed a US$6.2 million funding round. The round, which is an extension of its Series A that closed in May 2021, is led by Movac and backed by all the Series A investors (Bright Pixel Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackNova, AltVentures). It also adds US investor Shasta Ventures and New Zealand Growth Capital Partners to the roster as interest in the company grows. Portainer launched in 2017 as an open source product to simplify the management of Docker and Swarm environments. In August 2020, it added support for enterprise Kubernetes, which is becoming the de facto industry standard for orchestrating containerized environments. By adding support for both Kubernetes and HashiCorp’s Nomad, Portainer has become the only universal container management system that works from the data centre to the edge and has been recognized by CRN.com...
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Aryaka Acquires Cloud-Based SASE Platform Secucloud GmbH

May 2021 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Aryaka Acquires Cloud-Based SASE Platform Secucloud GmbH Aryaka®, the leader in fully managed Cloud-First WAN and SASE solutions, announced today that it has acquired Secucloud GmbH, a proven SASE platform provider, delivering network security from the cloud. The deal closed in late April 2021, and Secucloud is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aryaka. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Secucloud GmbH offers an innovative platform designed to provide an all-in-one, global, cloud-based firewall-as-a-service, secure web gateway with advanced threat protection capabilities. The platform is engineered to connect all edges including WAN, Cloud, Mobile and IoT securely together. SASE is Paramount in a Cloud-First World The COVID Pandemic has accelerated the adoption of “Cloud-First” architectures. The consumption of network and network security “as-a-service” has driven the need for increased convergence and led to changes in buying behaviors and architectural shifts. Gartner calls this architecture Secure Access Service Edge (SASE),...
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Container Management Solution Provider Portainer.io Raises $6M Series A Round from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sonae IM, and Movac to Accelerate Global Expansion

May 2021 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Container Management Solution Provider Portainer.io Raises $6M Series A Round from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sonae IM, and Movac to Accelerate Global Expansion Portainer’s universal tool unleashes the power of containerized applications for everyone. Portainer.io, creator of a universal container management tool that makes containers simple and accessible to anyone, announced today their $6 million Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, joined by prominent European investor Sonae Investment Management and leading New Zealand technology investor Movac. The round, which follows close on the heels of Portainer’s $1.2 million seed round announced in August 2020, will fund Portainer.io’s worldwide user expansion and product development, as Portainer.io charts the course for the future of container management. Portainer.io will also continue to scale and develop its enterprise offering, Portainer Business, which launched in December 2020. Launched in 2017 as an open source tool for managing containers in the...
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Weaveworks Raises $36 Million from AWS, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Orange Ventures and Sonae IM to Accelerate Adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud Native Technologies in Enterprises and Telecoms

December 2020 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Weaveworks Raises $36 Million from AWS, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Orange Ventures and Sonae IM to Accelerate Adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud Native Technologies in Enterprises and Telecoms GitOps creator Weaveworks, Inc., today announced a $36.65 million Series C funding round led by some of the world’s leading public cloud and telecommunications companies, including first-time investors Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ericsson, Orange Ventures, Sonae IM and Telekom Investment Pool (TIP). The round also includes follow-on investments from Accel, GV, and Redline Capital, bringing total funds raised to date to $60 million. Weaveworks will use the fresh capital to enhance its GitOps-powered Kubernetes platform and accelerate market expansion, as enterprises and telecommunications companies demand massive scalability and speed of innovation for their cloud native applications. According to Alexis Richardson, CEO of Weaveworks, investors have come together to invest in their vision for the future of Kubernetes and cloud...
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Cellwize Secures $32M Series B Financing Led by Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures

November 2020 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Cellwize Secures $32M Series B Financing Led by Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures Cellwize, a global leader in mobile network automation and orchestration, today announced a $32 million Series B funding round in its parent company, Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte. Ltd., led by Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures LLC with participation from Verizon Ventures, Samsung Next, and existing shareholders. Cellwize will use the funds raised to expand its global footprint, penetrate adjacent markets, such as private LTE/5G networks, and to enhance the features and capabilities of its CHIME platform and its value proposition for the existing customer base – including in its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. The investment follows the significant market traction gained over the past year by Cellwize CHIME, the company’s next generation RAN automation and orchestration platform. With CHIME, Cellwize has captured a leading position in the mobile network automation domain,...
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Sonae IM closes investment in Cellwize, leading provider in network automation and orchestration

May 2019 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Sonae IM closes investment in Cellwize, leading provider in network automation and orchestration Cellwize provides network automation and orchestration solutions for global telecom carriers and connected car OEMs; Telefónica, Axiata and Bell Canada are among its esteemed global clients Sonae Investment Management (Sonae IM), today announced that it has concluded an equity investment in Cellwize, a global leader in mobile network automation and orchestration. This funding will accelerate Cellwize’s growth and the expansion of its technology in automation and artificial intelligence, particularly towards supporting new 5G deployments. “Cellwize is a global technology leader and has been consistently recognized for its high quality and reliable technology by a long list of tier-1 mobile network operators (MNOs),” said Carlos Alberto Silva, executive director at Sonae IM. “Its modular and open, virtualized cloud architecture positions Cellwize as a primary vendor for mobile network operators in a world of ever-increasing...
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