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☆ Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft is partnering with tutoring organization Khan Academy to provide a generative AI assistant to all teachers in the U.S. for free. Khanmigo for Teachers, which helps teachers prepare lessons for class, is free to all educators in the U.S. as of Tuesday, with the financial support of Microsoft. Microsoft and Khan Academy are also planning to provide more AI-powered math tutoring to students through a new open-source small language model from Microsoft's Phi-3 AI technology. The relationship between the tech giant and education nonprofit will also feed back into Microsoft's Copilot AI, with more Khan Academy content added, and Khan content brought into Microsoft Teams for Education, an existing free communication app for students and teachers. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently recommended Khan's new book on AI in education.

Persons: Sal Khan, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, zeroed, Khan, Nadia, Alan Turing's, Khanmigo, Bill Gates, Gates Organizations: Microsoft, Academy, Khan Academy, CNBC, Khan, CNBC's Technology, Phi, Microsoft Teams, Education Locations: U.S

☆ CFOs learn how to respond and lead during a cyberattack
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Susan Caminiti | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

After returning to the office from an exhausting overseas trip, your CIO informs you that malware was deployed within your customer databases. CFOs from the Council were broken up into teams, each representing a fictitious company in a specific industry such as financial services, healthcare, energy, and pharma/biotech. As the scenario moved along, CFOs were given the next development or demand in the attack. Once they knew a ransomware demand was made, the most pressing question was whether they should pay the money. Others turned immediately to the participants playing company lawyers to determine how much cyber insurance they had on hand to pay the ransomware.

☆ Databricks: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Companies across the economy are storing massive amounts of data and across more categories. Databricks removes the hassle of configuring and updating third-party software to perform data analytics, and doesn't require clients to copy data into its software in order to work with it. Instead, data can stay where it already is, such as in Amazon Web Services' widely used S3 object-storage system, and Databricks can still crunch the numbers. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC). Learn more about CNBC Councils.

☆ AnChain.AI: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Founded by cybersecurity veterans from FireEye and Mandiant in 2018, AnChain.AI's Web3 risk prevention and security platform aims to establish trust around blockchains and cryptocurrencies and is used as a backstop by exchanges, hedge funds and regulators. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awarded AnChain.AI a multi-year contract in September 2021 to provide a platform for analysis and tracing to support the SEC's efforts to monitor risk, improve compliance and inform policy on digital assets and cryptocurrencies. The company closed a $10 million funding round in September 2021 led by SIG Asia Investments. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC). Learn more about CNBC Councils.

☆ Cognite: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Cognite is an industrial software company focused on the oil and gas, power and utilities, renewable energy, and manufacturing sectors, helping with the digital transformation of heavy-asset industries and increasing the safety, sustainability and efficiency of their operations. In May 2021, Cognite closed a $150 million investment round led by TCV that valued the company at $1.6 billion. Saudi Aramco acquired a 7.4% stake in the company in February, and Cognite launched a joint venture with the energy company in June to support industrial digitalization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and North Africa region. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC). Learn more about CNBC Councils.

☆ Abnormal Security: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Compromised business email remains one of the top cybersecurity threats with an estimated $43 billion in losses exposed since June 2016, according to the FBI. Abnormal Security, founded in 2018, uses an AI-based cloud-native email security platform that leans on behavioral data science to stop socially engineered and other unique email attacks that can evade traditional secure email gateways. The company, which closed a $210 million Series C round of financing in May led by Insight Partners and included Greylock Partners and Menlo Ventures, says it protects more than 5% of the Fortune 1000 including Xerox , Urban Outfitters , Groupon and Royal Caribbean . The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC). Learn more about CNBC Councils.

☆ Verbit: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Company founder Tom Livne learned firsthand as a lawyer that the $30 billion transcription services industry was not keeping up with the technology or market opportunity. He founded Verbit to combine the latest in AI-based voice capture technology with the world's largest professional transcription workforce. Now in use by over 3,000 organizations including Google, CNN, Fox, and the Library of Congress, as well as widespread adoption in the education sector from Stanford University to online learning company Udacity, Verbit has attracted top investors from the corporate world and Wall Street, including Samsung's VC arm Samsung Next and Dan Loeb's Third Point Ventures. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC). Learn more about CNBC Councils.

☆ UJET: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former Motorola and Jawbone executive Anand Janefalker founded UJET to transform the customer experience, applying AI and data analytics to a world in which brands are increasingly relying on technology to make omnichannel service faster and more efficient. Instacart, PayPal's Zettle, Wag!, Money Lion, Turo and Atom Tickets are among clients using UJET across voice, digital and in-app platforms. Investors include some of Silicon Valley's elite, such as Kleiner Perkins and GV (formerly Google Ventures). The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC). Learn more about CNBC Councils.

☆ BigID: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

All companies are now digital enterprises, regardless of sector, but for many years, data wasn't being managed in the best way possible for the privacy era. BigID's data intelligence platform is used by clients to proactively discover, manage and protect regulated, sensitive and personal data across their data landscape. Using machine learning and data, BigID can address data privacy, security and governance challenges across all different types of data for clients ranging from financial services to healthcare. The company, which raised $100 million in its Series D funding round that valued it at $1.25 billion, has investors that include ServiceNow , Hewlett Packard Enterprise , Salesforce , SAP and Splunk . The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Aera Technology: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Founded in 2017, Aera Technology aims to aide companies in their digital acceleration, integrating its cloud platform into existing systems to help make and execute business decisions in real time. Focusing on what it calls the self-driving ecosystem, its platform uses AI, machine learning and data crawling to provide recommendations around business objectives, as well as the ability to be executed on the user's behalf. Among the decision intelligence areas where its technology is proving critical: the supply chain, from inventory optimization to order management and consumer goods retail trade promotion. The company has raised more than $174 million from investors including DJF Growth and Georgian, and works with partners including EY, Kearney, Microsoft and AWS. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Aviatrix: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In 2014, Sherry Wei, Aviatrix's CTO and founder, left Cisco to create Aviatrix on the premise that cloud networking is far different than data center networking from the perspective of an enterprise customer. Steve Mullaney, who had been CEO of software-defined networking pioneer Nicira, came out of retirement in 2019 to join Wei in her mission after he too saw the massive growth in cloud demand from enterprise companies. The Santa Clara, California-based Aviatrix provides a networking platform that companies use to manage the flow of data traffic in their cloud environment. In September 2021, the company raised $200 million in funding with growth equity firm TCV leading the round. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Papaya Global: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Israel is a well-known hub for some of the world's most advanced cybersecurity startups, but Papaya Global is aiming to make the nation known for leading in payroll technology as well. Combining onboarding, payroll and compliance on a global basis for both staff and contract workforces of companies with operations in over 140 countries, investors accelerated funding in 2021 and Papaya reached unicorn status, still a rare feat for a female-led startup. The company now handles over $3 billion in payroll for 700-plus customers including Cyberark, Shopify , Vimeo, Payoneer , Microsoft , Panasonic and fellow Top Startups company Canva. Investors include Workday's VC arm, Sir Ronald Cohen's family investment firm Dynamic Loop Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Era Capital and Tiger Global. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Snyk: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

As more companies write their own code to power digital operations, they need to bolster and modernize their online security. It's a "cloud-native" technology, engineered by Snyk to speed up production and help enterprises prevent future security issues. Developers at AWS, Google , Atlassian , Comcast , Twilio , CVS , Overstock, Manulife and Revolut are among the millions in DevOps across sectors of the economy that are using Snyk. Investors include venture arms of Atlassian and Salesforce, Tiger Global, Baillie Gifford, T. Rowe Price, Accel, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Geodesic Capital and Temasek. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Canva: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Canva helps people create presentations, videos and other designs, competing against Adobe , Microsoft and other graphic-design software firms. The company lures in subscribers with free trials for 30 days, and aims to convert them to a premium or Pro level for $12.99 monthly. Currently, Canva counts millions of Pro customers and over 100 million active monthly users. It also added an enterprise level two years ago that has attracted major customers, including Marriott, PayPal, Salesforce, American Airlines and Zoom. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Lacework: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Lacework is a cybersecurity company that relies on a patented form of machine learning built specifically within the cloud to protect an organization from the inside out. This approach provides insights internally to automatically learn patterns, flag deviations and provide alerts at the right time, without wasted time investigating false positives. Lacework prides itself on a comprehensive cybersecurity service that can be accessed from a single platform across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms, and it has a recent integration with Snowflake. Its investors include Altimeter Capital, Tiger Global Management, Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global, Franklin Templeton, General Catalyst and Snowflake's venture arm. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Harness: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Co-founder Jyoti Bansal sold his first company AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion and just six years later he has brought Harness up to its own $3.7 billion valuation as of its last fundraising in April. Every company is now a software company and with that digital transformation come issues of constant code fixes and cyber vigilance. The aim of Harness is to provide an estimated 27 million software developers globally the ability to create and send code to end users faster, more efficiently, and securely. Key cloud integrations include Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Workato: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

CEO Vijay Tella built Workato to close a big gap his team saw in the modern enterprise. While business apps became simpler, faster and cheaper, the integration across these apps remained complex and expensive. Workato transforms automation across enterprises with a single platform for data, apps and processes, allowing them to evolve from complex and fragmented architectures of the past. The company differentiates its service by pitching easy-to-use, patented machine learning technology that can be used by both business and IT departments. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ JupiterOne: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Founder Erkang Zheng came to the U.S. from China as an immigrant during his high school years and after deciding it took too long to follow his first dream of becoming a doctor, he got a degree in computer science instead and proceeded through a series of cybersecurity jobs at companies including IBM and Fidelity Investments before founding JupiterOne. It is helping companies manage their clouds, pass security audits, and scale their defenses as they grow security and DevOps teams in a way that gains the trust of clients. Customers include fellow Top Startup Databricks and key integrations in the cloud include AWS. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC). Learn more about CNBC Councils.

☆ Medable: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Less than 4% of Americans participate in clinical studies; 30% drop out before study completion; and 80% of studies do not meet enrollment deadlines. Medable uses a cloud-based approach to making participation more consumer-friendly and more equitable. Over the course of the pandemic, Medable decentralized more than 150 clinical trials to over one million participants across 41 countries and in over 60 languages, including Covid-19 vaccine and therapeutic treatment. In February, it announced a partnership with CVS Health's new clinical trials arm to expand access to trials through CVS MinuteClinic select sites using Medable software. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

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