Envoy

Australian software giant Atlassian and Envoy, a startup that provides workplace management services, were at loggerheads on Thursday over a data breach that exposed the data of thousands of Atlassian employees.…

Atlassian and Envoy briefly blame each other for data breach

Envoy launched in 2013 with the promise of bringing visitor management for individual companies into the modern age. When the pandemic hit, it quickly pivoted to control who could come…

Envoy Connect brings automated visitor management to high-rise buildings

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting its semi-annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference this week, so it’s maybe no surprise that we’ll hear quite a bit of news around…

The Envoy Gateway project wants to bring Envoy to the masses

This has been a long time coming: Google today announced that it is submitting its Istio service mesh project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing…

Google donates the Istio service mesh to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The way COVID-19 has changed the way we work comes up a lot — founders have had to pivot and innovate to build companies during…

How one founder built the gold standard in office guest sign-in, then shifted the business for COVID

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. To wit: OfficeRnD, which makes workplace management software that’s increasingly geared toward helping…

OfficeRnD, a SaaS for managing hybrid workplaces, grabs $10M

When you think about service meshes, a somewhat esoteric cloud-native tool designed to stitch different microservices together, you might not think it’s the most lucrative side of the Kubernetes-led cloud-native…

Solo.io reaches $1B valuation with $135M Series C investment

Connecting to all the services and microservices that a modern cloud native enterprise application requires can be a complicated task. It’s an area that startup Solo.io is trying to disrupt with…

Solo.io integrates a cloud native API gateway and service mesh into its enterprise platform

Tetrate, the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. The round, led by Sapphire Ventures, underscores the importance…

Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open-source app networking project, raises $40 million

Enso Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new application security posture management platform, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed funding round led by…

Enso Security raises $6M for its application security posture management platform

No matter the industry, the coronavirus pandemic has absolutely rocked the way that we work. Work from home is the new norm. But many are anxious to get back into…

Envoy launches Protect to help workers return to the office safely

Unlike some of its competitors, Google Cloud has recently started emphasizing how its large lineup of different services can be combined to solve common business problems. Instead of trying to…

Google Cloud launches its Business Application Platform based on Apigee and AppSheet

API management platform Kong today announced that it is donating its open-source Kuma control plane technology to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Since Kong built Kuma on top of…

Kong donates its Kuma control plane to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the Linux Foundation-based home of open-source projects like Kubernetes, OpenTracing and Envoy, today announced that Dan Kohn, the long-time executive director of the organization, is…

Priyanka Sharma takes over the leadership of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Over the years, Google’s various whitepapers, detailing how the company solves specific problems at scale, have regularly spawned new startup ecosystems and changed how other enterprises think about scaling their…

Google details its approach to cloud-native security

The growing intensity of the US visa approval process has made it more difficult for companies to attract, support and retain foreign talent. However, recruiters are still sourcing talent from…

Visa policies threaten innovation but aren’t stopping hiring abroad

Tetrate — a company bringing commercial services and support to the open-source projects Istio and Envoy, providing network management functions for the microservices that make up modern mobile applications —…

Tetrate nets $12.5 million to bring microservices to the corporate masses

Security researchers at IBM have found, reported and disclosed 19 vulnerabilities in five popular visitor management systems, which they say can be used to steal data about visitors — or…

Flawed visitor check-in systems let anyone steal guest logs and sneak into buildings

Macquarie Capital Venture Studio, the infrastructure-focused accelerator affiliated with the nearly $500 billion-dollar investment firm Macquarie Group, has added three companies to its portfolio. The companies, AirMap, Envoy Technologies and…

Macquarie Capital Venture Studio adds three new companies to infrastructure tech portfolio

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board.…

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable

The office might not seem like an area in desperate need of disruption, but Envoy — a Silicon Valley company used to sign in over 100,000 visitors at offices across…

Envoy raises $43 million to digitize your office

Since its debut on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in September 2016, demand for a service like productboard, which gives companies a holistic view of product development and encourages input from across an…

As product development incorporates more feedback, development toolkit productboard raises $8M

There’s lots to like about startups that are rarely in the media because they are heads down developing product and building an actual business. Envoy is one of those. Led…

Envoy digitizes another inefficient office chore with new service for deliveries

Looking to make EV car sharing the next perk for real estate developers, Envoy, a new Los Angeles startup has launched its first pilot. Initially, they’re starting with one apartment…

Envoy launches in LA aiming to bring EV car sharing to real estate developments

Envoy, which provides early elderly care with a concierge service for tasks like delivering groceries, has raised $3 million and is launching today. Envoy’s pitch is that it provides a…

Envoy, A Part-Time Concierge Service For Seniors, Raises $3M

Envoy, the startup behind an iPad app designed “to kill the lobby sign-in book” — as we reported last year when it landed $1.5 million — is perhaps not one…

Envoy Lands $15M From Andreessen Horowitz To Digitize The Office

When you think about things that need to be disrupted, the entryway sign-in booklet is probably the last thing on your mind. And yet. Having spent four years at Google…

Envoy Brings In $1.5 Million To Kill The Lobby Sign-In Book