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The goal of the hackers is to spearphish startup employees and related businesses in Japan, the United States, and other countries.

Lemongrass Consulting, backed by former Virtustream CEO Rodney Rogers, raises $10M. Lemongrass offers MSP services for SAP cloud applications on Amazon AWS.

Cisco Systems launches Decibel, an independent venture capital organization focused on early stage investments.

Electric builds chat bots & automated systems to disrupt traditional managed services providers (MSPs). Venture capitalists bet $38 million on the MSP disruption strategy.

Cloud and colocation data center provider Aligned Energy attracts strategic investment from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP). Among the goals: Attract more MSPs into the data centers.

Salesforce cloud backup specialist OwnBackup, led by former Intronis CEO Sam Gutmann, raises $15.5 million. Kaseya, Unitrends and Spanning investor Insight Venture Partners involved.