Follow The Money

Venture capital investors continued to heavily invest in hot areas such as cybersecurity in September, while investor attention was also strong when it came to startups with innovations in IoT and AI. Security and privacy startups that hauled in new funding this month included Shape Security ($51 milion) and BigID ($50 million). In IoT, Litmus Automation and Sight Machine announced funding rounds. Meanwhile, the largest round in our September funding list went to DataRobot, an enterprise AI technology up-and-comer that raised $206 million.

What follows are our picks for 10 IT startups to watch that landed new funding in September.