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Taiko Raises US$37M from Top-tier VCs Ahead Of Mainnet Launch

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Saturday, March 2, 2024

NEW YORK and LONDON and SINGAPORE, March 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiko, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution provider, today announced the close of commitments for a US$15 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Faction, Hashed, Generative Ventures, and Token Bay Capital. Other notable participating investors in this latest round include Wintermute Ventures, Presto Labs, Flow Traders, Amber Group, OKX Ventures, GSR, WW Ventures, and more. The close of its most recent round brings Taiko's total capital raised to US$37 million across three rounds. The closing of its Series A round comes just ahead of Taiko's highly-anticipated mainnet launch. 

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  • Last month, Taiko launched a new testnet, Katla , which has seen >1.1M wallet addresses and >13M total transactions to date.
  • The closing of its Series A round comes just ahead of Taiko's highly-anticipated mainnet launch.
  • Taiko is an Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup, scaling Ethereum by supporting all EVM opcodes in a Layer 2 architecture that is decentralized, permissionless, and secure.
  • Since it was founded in 2022, Taiko has successfully executed six testnets involving over 1,100,000+ unique wallets, 30,000+ proposers, and 14,000+ provers.

Royal Gold Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Operating and Financial Results

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

For the quarter ended December 31, 2023 (“fourth quarter”), we reported net income of $62.8 million, or $0.95 per share, on revenue of $152.7 million and operating cash flow of $101.1 million.

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  • For the quarter ended December 31, 2023 (“fourth quarter”), we reported net income of $62.8 million, or $0.95 per share, on revenue of $152.7 million and operating cash flow of $101.1 million.
  • Barrick is expecting gold production at the Cortez Complex to be 620,000 to 680,000 ounces in 2024 (100% basis).
  • According to Barrick, construction and commissioning activities for the plant expansion were substantially completed by the end of 2023.
  • Gold and copper grades are relatively well correlated at Andacollo and gold production tends to track copper production.

Thought Tech Celebrates 50 Years in Business Providing Technology for Better Health

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Monday, February 5, 2024

MONTREAL, Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Thought Tech is a Montreal based company that specializes in manufacturing biofeedback, neurofeedback, and psychophysiological instruments providing "Technology for Better Health." The company was founded Dec, 1974 with the introduction of the GSR 2™ - a hand-held, portable device that uses skin conductance as a measure of an individual's stress level. The device helps people achieve self-regulation using Biofeedback, as a means of keeping stress levels under control. There are more than 450,000 units used worldwide by consumers, athletes, and in thousands of hospitals for numerous health and stress management programs.

Key Points: 
  • Montreal-based Thought Tech is proud to announce its upcoming 50th anniversary providing psychophysiological instrumentation to an international customer base.
  • MONTREAL, Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Thought Tech is a Montreal based company that specializes in manufacturing biofeedback, neurofeedback, and psychophysiological instruments providing "Technology for Better Health."
  • Asked about reaching this milestone, Thought Tech founder Dr. Hal Myers commented, "It's hard to believe we've been at this for five decades.
  • Thought Tech sponsors a number of workshops, taught by world authorities in their fields, to teach clinical skills and the effective use of biofeedback instrumentation.

GSR Boosts Executive Leadership with Head of Trading Hire

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

GSR , the global cryptocurrency trading firm and liquidity provider, has appointed Andreas Koukorinis as its new Head of Trading.

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  • GSR , the global cryptocurrency trading firm and liquidity provider, has appointed Andreas Koukorinis as its new Head of Trading.
  • He joins the firm from JP Morgan, where he most recently served as their Global Head of Credit and FICC ETF eTrading.
  • Koukorinis will lead GSR’s trading platform and strategy to serve the firm’s clients consisting of token issuers, institutional investors, family offices and leading trading venues.
  • In his role at JP Morgan, Koukorinis had responsibility for Global Algorithmic Credit Trading, encompassing systematic market making, algorithmic trading in ETFs across Fixed Income, and portfolio trading across corporates and Emerging Markets.

Kiln Raises $17 Million in Funding to Power Global Expansion of Its Innovative Institutional Staking Platform

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Today, leading enterprise-grade staking platform Kiln announces the close of a $17 million funding round led by 1kx, with participation from IOSG, Crypto.com, Wintermute Ventures, KXVC, LBank and further contributions from existing investors.

Key Points: 
  • Today, leading enterprise-grade staking platform Kiln announces the close of a $17 million funding round led by 1kx, with participation from IOSG, Crypto.com, Wintermute Ventures, KXVC, LBank and further contributions from existing investors.
  • Kiln’s white-label staking technology platform brings together stakers, node operators and integrators with multiple applications and has been growing steadily over the past 12 months.
  • Since its launch, Kiln has cemented itself as one of the largest staking platforms in the market and now the largest operator of Ethereum validator nodes according to Rated .
  • In late 2023, Kiln partnered with Ledger Live, Crypto.com and Coinbase to provide pooled staking services, allowing every ETH holder to access staking with any amount of ETH.

Smart Eye and Green Hills Software Collaborate on Production-Focused, AI-Driven, Driver Monitoring System (DMS) Platform for Vital In-Cabin Vehicle Safety Systems

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The DMS platform offered by Smart Eye and Green Hills Software integrates Smart Eye’s core DMS software with the ASIL-certified INTEGRITY® RTOS from Green Hills and detects driver distraction and drowsiness by analyzing facial expressions and eye gaze in real time.

Key Points: 
  • The DMS platform offered by Smart Eye and Green Hills Software integrates Smart Eye’s core DMS software with the ASIL-certified INTEGRITY® RTOS from Green Hills and detects driver distraction and drowsiness by analyzing facial expressions and eye gaze in real time.
  • The joint solution brings together advanced driver monitoring capabilities with a safe, secure automotive-grade real-time operating system.
  • “We are delighted to collaborate with Green Hills Software and demo our joint solution at CES 2024,” said Martin Krantz, Founder and CEO of Smart Eye.
  • Green Hills and Smart Eye will demonstrate their solution at CES 2024, January 9-12, in the Green Hills booth #6601 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Black Kite Takes Top Honors in Two Categories for the 2023 CISO Choice Awards

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

As part of the program, a panel of CISO judges selected Black Kite for its market-leading capabilities and innovative company vision.

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  • As part of the program, a panel of CISO judges selected Black Kite for its market-leading capabilities and innovative company vision.
  • The CISO Choice Awards recognized Black Kite for its transformational approach to TPRM .
  • “I would like to congratulate Black Kite for winning the 2023 CISO Choice Awards Visionary Company and Third Party Risk Management Categories.
  • This is the second consecutive year that Black Kite has been a multi-category winner in the CISO Choice Awards.

Aqua Security Wins Top Honor in 2023 CISO Choice Awards

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Monday, November 20, 2023

BOSTON, Nov. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aqua Security , the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced it was selected as the 2023 CISO Choice Award winner in the Cloud Workload Protection Platform ( CWPP ) category.

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  • BOSTON, Nov. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aqua Security , the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced it was selected as the 2023 CISO Choice Award winner in the Cloud Workload Protection Platform ( CWPP ) category.
  • A panel of leading CISO judges chose Aqua as the leader in this category based on their experience as end-user executives.
  • Aqua Security earned a CISO Choice Award because of its modern and integrated approach to cloud native security, securing the entire application lifecycle from code to cloud, and back.
  • "I would like to congratulate Aqua Security for winning the 2023 CISO Choice Awards Cloud Workload Protection Platform Category.

RapidFort Wins The Prestigious 2023 CISO Choice Award For Vulnerability Management

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Monday, November 20, 2023

RapidFort , the San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup pioneering Software Attack Surface Management (SASM), has been named a winner of the prestigious 2023 CISO Choice Awards in the Vulnerability Management category.

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  • RapidFort , the San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup pioneering Software Attack Surface Management (SASM), has been named a winner of the prestigious 2023 CISO Choice Awards in the Vulnerability Management category.
  • "I would like to congratulate RapidFort for winning the 2023 CISO Choice Awards Vulnerability Management Category.
  • "The CISO Choice Awards are a significant accolade to companies in the cybersecurity industry.
  • The recognition from the highly respected CISO judges validates our unique and innovative approach to reducing organizations' software attack surface," said Mehran Farimani, CEO of RapidFort.

IDTechEx Summarized Regional Regulations for Mandating Driver Monitoring Systems

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Europe is among the regions with clearly defined regulations mandating the installation of vision-based Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS).

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  • Europe is among the regions with clearly defined regulations mandating the installation of vision-based Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS).
  • The United States has implemented several driver monitoring systems (DMS) regulations.
  • Beyond regulatory mandates, IDTechEx has observed various initiatives from automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) aimed at integrating DMS and occupant monitoring systems (OMS).
  • Given the regulatory requirements, IDTechEx anticipates that major automotive companies will expedite the integration of Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS), presenting significant opportunities across the entire supply chain.