Author: Antoine Tardif

With AI’s exponential growth driven by the Law of Accelerating Returns, we are witnessing an unprecedented transformation across industries. The pace of AI innovation is exploding, making it not just an advanced tool but an economic powerhouse that is fundamentally altering how businesses operate. The Lenovo CIO Playbook 2025: It’s Time for AI-nomics provides a

Astra Security, a cutting-edge cybersecurity SaaS company, has announced the successful closure of a $2.7 million growth capital round led by Emergent Ventures, with participation from Neon Fund, Better Capital, Blume Ventures, and PointOne Capital. The fresh capital will accelerate Astra Security’s mission to redefine penetration testing (pentesting) through AI-powered solutions, helping businesses stay ahead

Hubert Palan is the Founder and CEO of Productboard, a product management platform designed to help teams bring products to market more efficiently by prioritizing user needs and aligning teams around a shared roadmap. More than 5,400 companies, including Zoom, UiPath, JCDecaux, and Microsoft, use the platform to gather customer insights and inform development decisions. What

Silicon Valley-based Growth Warrior Capital (GWC), led by seasoned operator-turned-venture capitalist Promise Phelon, has announced two major investments into emerging AI startups MenuData and Simulacra Synthetic Data Studio. These investments precede the firm’s inaugural fund close, marking a strategic push into AI-driven consumer insights and data analytics. GWC, alongside Brickyard, co-led a $2 million seed

Loris Degioanni is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Sysdig. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ million users. Sysdig is dedicated to ensuring

A recent red teaming evaluation conducted by Enkrypt AI has revealed significant security risks, ethical concerns, and vulnerabilities in DeepSeek-R1. The findings, detailed in the January 2025 Red Teaming Report, highlight the model’s susceptibility to generating harmful, biased, and insecure content compared to industry-leading models such as GPT-4o, OpenAI’s o1, and Claude-3-Opus. Below is a

Valeria Kogan, PhD, Founder and CEO of Fermata has been recognized as one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in 2022, Valeria is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in biotechnology and innovation. As the founder of Fermata and the biotech firm Smartomica, Valeria combines her scientific expertise with a visionary approach to transforming

SuperOps, a pioneering AI-driven IT management platform, has raised $25 million in Series C funding to accelerate its AI innovations, expand globally, and empower IT teams with cutting-edge technology. The latest round was led by March Capital, with continued support from existing investors Addition and Z47, bringing SuperOps’ total funding to $54.4 million. This milestone

Inna Tokarev Sela, the CEO and Founder of Illumex, is transforming how enterprises prepare their structured data for generative AI. Illumex enables organizations to deploy genAI analytics agents by translating scattered, cryptic data into meaningful, context-rich business language with built-in governance. The platform automatically analyzes metadata to locate and label structured data without moving or

Aditya K Sood (Ph.D) is the VP of Security Engineering and AI Strategy at Aryaka. With more than 16 years of experience, he provides strategic leadership in information security, covering products and infrastructure. Dr. Sood is interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud security, malware automation and analysis, application security, and secure software design. He has