Alicorn is pleased to announce that portfolio company, Anodot, has acquired cloud cost management platform Pileus. The combined offering will enable Anodot to accurately manage and forecast cloud costs, as part of its comprehensive autonomous monitoring solution, powered by artificial intelligence. Pileus provides personalised cloud cost optimisation strategies for businesses, allowing them to cut their cloud costs by up to 40%. With an increasing trend...

Investors have set their sights on the world’s innovation capitals. Silicon Valley continues to set the gold standard for technology hubs around the world, consistently ranking #1 across different subsectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and life sciences. The region has an ecosystem value of US$677bn, according to research firm Startup Genome. Global venture capital, however, is fuelling the growth of start-ups and scale-ups outside...

Digital experience analytics firm Glassbox raised US$100m in its initial public offering on the TASE – the latest in a series of debuts in Tel Aviv signalling the region’s emerging public markets strength.  Israel is renowned as one of the world’s leading technology hubs; a thriving ecosystem of start-ups, high calibre of talent, and support from a broad base of investors, but of late it has been seen to enter a new phase in its evolution as an international market.  From a “start-up nation” that emerged in the 1990s, Israel and Tel Aviv...

Alicorn Global Ventures (“Alicorn”), which invests in late-stage technology companies, announces that its strategic investment, Glassbox Ltd (“Glassbox”), today started trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: GLBX). Alicorn is the global venture capital arm of Arowana International, the established B Corporation-accredited investment group. Glassbox is a UK-headquartered global technology company that has developed an analytics platform that provides a complete view of all customer...

Alicorn Global Ventures (“Alicorn”), the venture capital arm of international B Corp investment group Arowana, is pleased to announce the closing of its investment in Pliops, an Israeli hardware storage acceleration company. The investment comes at a key growth inflexion point for Pliops and represents the sixth company that Alicorn has invested in as part of its global venture capital secondaries strategy. Alicorn has invested...

Alicorn Global Ventures (“Alicorn”) is pleased to have completed a busy first quarter of CY2021 with two secondary investments in fast growing technology companies totalling US$13.5m. Both investments are proprietary opportunities that remain confidential at time of writing. Alicorn recently invested $3.5 million in a global DevOps software company with a continuous delivery and collaboration platform for cloud-native applications and microservices. Its modern CI/CD platform...

Alicorn Global Ventures has completed an investment of up to US$3m in Anodot, a global software company recently included in Forbes’ Top 20 Machine Learning Startups to Watch. A leading vendor in the fast-expanding AI analytics space, Anodot is helping companies such as Vimeo, Atlassian, and T-Mobile to leverage artificial intelligence to surface business incidents much faster and prevent loss. Anodot’s Autonomous Business Monitoring leverages...

Just a few months ago, we announced our US$6m co-investment in Glassbox , a UK-headquartered and Israeli founded enterprise software company that recently closed a US$40m Series C round. Yesterday, thanks to that financing, Glassbox announced an investment of its own: its acquisition of SessionCam, a digital customer experience provider. “Our acquisition of SessionCam advances our mission to provide greater insight and value into how companies...

Alicorn & Co. (“Alicorn”) has completed a US$6m co-investment in Glassbox Digital, a UK-based enterprise software company that recently closed a US$40m Series C round. Alicorn is Arowana’s recently launched global venture capital arm and is headquartered out of its London office. The new standalone entity is focusing on proprietary opportunities in enterprise software, cybersecurity and data analytics. The current landscape has brought forward a...