Immuta has secured $40 million in funding to extend its leadership position in the growing market for automated data governance and privacy solutions, the company reported on Tuesday.

“The investment we’re announcing today from Intel Capital and Ten Eleven, along with our existing investors, will help us accelerate platform innovation, enhance and expand our strategic partnerships, and bring to market new, industry-specific solutions to automate compliance with HIPAA, CCPA, COPPA and other regulations,” said Matthew Carroll, co-founder and CEO, Immuta.

Immuta automated data governance has been developed on a cloud-native platform for organizations that work with sensitive data subject to regulation and business rules. The platform will automat data access control, security and privacy compliance to enhance security.

The company has integrated its platform with leading cloud data and analytics platforms, including Databricks, Snowflake and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to simplify deployment and improve return-on-investment across the financial services, insurance, healthcare and digital health, government, manufacturing, and internet/consumer tech sectors.

With the investments, Immuta has added new privacy and security automation capabilities designed to help organizations fully leverage cloud-based data analytics and data sharing to the company’s platform. The additional funds will accelerate Immuta’s development of its automated data governance platform by verticalizing the law with industry-specific solutions.

The Series C round was led by new investor Intel Capital, with participation from new investor Ten Eleven Ventures and existing investors DFJ Growth, Dell Technologies Capital, Greycroft, Drive Capital and Citi Ventures.

“Immuta solves a pain point for customers by making it easier and faster to access and use data in a compliant, protected way,” said Mark Rostick, vice president and senior managing director, Intel Capital. “As organizations need to do more with their data, while facing increasing global data privacy regulations, Immuta is filling an important gap by delivering a platform that automates privacy protection and governance. We’re thrilled to be investing with the Immuta team.”

About Immuta

Immuta was founded in 2015 based on a mission within the U.S. Intelligence Community to build a platform that accelerates self-service access to and control of sensitive data. The Immuta Automated Data Governance platform creates trust across data engineering, security, legal, compliance, and business teams so they can work together to ensure timely access to critical data with minimal risk, while adhering to global data privacy regulations including the GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA.

Immuta’s automated, scalable, no-code approach makes it easy for users to access the data they need, when they need it, while protecting sensitive information and ensuring customer privacy. Selected by Fast Company as one of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Immuta is headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in College Park, MD and Columbus, OH.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is conducting a pilot of a new portal in the FastLane system that allows startups and small businesses to pitch their project concepts and receive responses within three weeks, FedScoop reported Monday. Kelly Monterroso, a communications specialist at NSF, said the Project Pitch platform allows NSF to streamline the scientific research grant application process for startups and entrepreneurs.

“So we know that if we invite them to submit a proposal, because they’ve gone through the project pitch process, we know who they are, we can hold webinars just for them, we can just really help them through their registration, all the paperwork that they need to submit. So it’s a way that we can help them through our process,” said Monterroso.

NSF came up with the Project Pitch platform using Service Cloud Lightning Edition, a software-as-a-service offering from Salesforce.

“The lack of upfront cost is really important because this is a pilot. It’s still a pilot, honestly. We’re still changing things,” Ben Schrag, Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program director at NSF, said of Project Pitch.

Maj. Gen. Maria Barrett, commander of Network Enterprise Technology Command, said the U.S. Army will launch a capability to allow employees teleworking during the pandemic and other remote users to access classified and sensitive information in the next 30 days, C4ISRNET reported Monday.

Barrett told the publication the service plans to onboard the first 500 users in the next four weeks and increase that number to up to 2,000 users. She said NETCOM is coordinating with the Army CIO/G-6 and 7th Signal Command to collect “user requests for prioritization” and that “majority” of the devices that will be used to access data will be virtual desktops with no data stored on end-user devices.

“Based on location, the service will likely work better for [contiguous United States] users; it is our intention to test performance with [outside contiguous United States] users before issuing this as an offering [outside the contiguous United States],” Barrett said.

The Department of Energy (DoE) is investing more than $33 million in government-industry-academia partnership projects that aim to develop and later commercialize new energy technologies. National laboratories have partnered with industry and academic entities to pursue these 82 projects financed by DOE's Technology Commercialization Fund, the department said June 11.

“The Technology Commercialization Fund is a critical component of the department’s commercialization strategy, meant to provide a bridge that connects America’s innovators to the research and expertise of our world-class National Lab system," said Dan Brouillette, secretary of Energy.

Project topics include high-performance magnets, wide bandgap power devices, artificial intelligence-supported manufacturing and dual-fuel technology. General Electric Renewable Energy, Boeing, TerraPower, Kairos Power and the University of Pennsylvania are among the industrial and academic partners for the projects.