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WSJ: University of South Florida Gets $40 Million to Start Cyber and AI College

Arnie and Lauren Bellini are featured in the The Wall Street Journal following their $40 million donation to establish the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at the University of South Florida. The donation is the largest gift in school history. Arnie Bellini tells the WSJ, “What you’re going to see the next…

Historic $40M Gift Establishes Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing at USF, Solidifying Tampa Bay as “Cyber Bay”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The nation’s first named college dedicated to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity will drive workforce development, national security, and economic growth TAMPA, Fla. (March 11, 2025) — In a bold move to position Tampa as a global leader in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, the University of South Florida (USF) today announced a record-setting…

Securing America’s Digital Borders Is an Economic Imperative

The Artificial Intelligence race is the most important race our nation will ever run to ensure our economy prospers, our national defense is secure, and our democracy is preserved. Yet every nanosecond of every day, our digital borders are being overrun by foreign adversaries. Investing the human and financial capital to secure these borders is…

DeepSeek and the Critical Race for Democratic Innovation

China’s DeepSeek AI has rattled markets and sparked debates about America’s technological edge. This breakthrough — achieving results comparable to U.S. models while using fewer chips — demonstrates China’s growing AI capabilities. Their rapid advancement signals how quickly authoritarian regimes could close the technological gap with democracies. This reality reinforces the strategic importance of export…

Bellini Capital-Backed ConnectSecure CTO: ‘Cybercriminals Targeting Cloud’

Escalating cyber attacks on cloud environments prompted ConnectSecure to create a new M365 Assessment Module, giving managed service providers (MSPs) crucial visibility into Microsoft 365 configuration settings. The Bellini-backed ConnectSecure, a leader in vulnerability and compliance management solutions for MSPs, recently announced the launch of the new assessment module. In a statement to ChannelE2E, Rob…

TechGrid Scores $9.2M Series A from Bellini Capital

TechGrid Scores .2M Series A from Bellini Capital

Tool sprawl has become a real issue for managed service providers — and TechGrid has a solution to address it. Now the company also has the backing of Bellini Capital. With a $9.2 million series A investment, Bellini Capital throws their support behind TechGrid. Arnie Bellini commented in Channel E2E, “TechGrid is optimizing the front-end…