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Aaron Levie leads Box into its third era focused on workflow automation and AI

The content management industry is shifting from pure management to AI and workflow automation to put the content to work.

WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service

When the open source streaming service Apache Kafka was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of cloud computing was just beginning to em

Zendesk adds flexible AI agent capabilities with Ultimate acquisition

Zendesk has been trying to transform customer service since it launched in 2007, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company sees the industry being altered in a big way by the rise of gener

Enterprise SaaS investment makes a comeback — but not where you’d expect

When we examined venture investment amounts in enterprise SaaS startups, we were surprised at the top categories.

New startup from Postgres creator puts the database at heart of software stack

MIT professor Mike Stonebraker has been at the forefront of database technology for more than 50 years. The former Turing Award winner invented the Ingres and Postgres databases and helped launch a nu

Slack’s new CEO looks to bring stability after a turbulent period

Slack's newest CEO is the third in less than a year, and she's looking to bring stability to a division that has dealt with a lot of changes.

Databricks keeps marching forward with $1.6B in revenue

While the world waits for Databricks to IPO, the data lakehouse company just keeps raking in the dough, reporting $1.6 billion over the last year.

Accenture to acquire Udacity to build a learning platform focused on AI

Accenture announced today that it would acquire the learning platform Udacity as part of an effort to build a learning platform focused on the growing interest in AI. While the company didn’t specif

New geospatial data startup streamlines satellite imagery visualization

These days we have a ton of geospatial data coming off the increasing numbers of satellites circling in our atmosphere, but it takes some serious processing power and engineering prowess to turn that

Plug In South Los Angeles helps build diverse startups in a traditionally underserved area

Derek Smith launched Plug In South LA with goal of helping historically under represented people build successful startups.

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman stepping down — and Wall St hates it

Apparently Frank Slootman, the veteran tech executive, was popular with investors, at least judging from their reaction that he will be stepping down as CEO of Snowflake. The company stock price has p

Totango and Catalyst are merging to build a customer success powerhouse

One of the interesting aspects of this deal is that no money is changing hands.

As data takes center stage, Codified wants to bring flexibility to governance

Over the last decade, we’ve seen data grow in increasing importance to enterprise software, and that role has grown even more pronounced more recently with the rise of large language models. At the

Writer’s latest models can generate text from images, including charts and graphs

As generative AI continues to dominate the headlines, it’s hard sometimes to find actual working business use cases among the hype. Writer is a San Francisco startup that is working to create genera

UiPath finds firmer financial footing with pivot to general automation and AI

UiPath was a startup darling with a $35B valuation, but the public markets proved rougher until the company diversified its product line.

KKR to acquire VMware’s end user computing biz from Broadcom for $4B

We’ve already started to see big M&A, as in multibillion-dollar deals, finally pick up this year after a slow period last year. Today, KKR added to that growing total when it announced it was go

Faddom raises $12M to help companies map IT infrastructure wherever it lives

When IT was responsible for servers onsite, understanding what you owned and where it lived was not a big problem. For most, it was physical machines in a closet or server room, but as infrastructure

Sproxxy is making it easier to measure conference spending ROI

Whenever you go to a conference, whether as a sales and marketing exercise, or an executive is speaking, there is a cost associated with that. For the former, it involves the cost of space and a booth

How Bret Taylor’s new company is rethinking customer experience in the age of AI

Sierra is building autonomous AI agents that can help customers resolve issues and complete tasks without human help.

With Twilio under activist pressure, Segment could be put up for sale

With Twilio under pressure from activist investors, it's looking at whether to sell Segment, the company it bought in 2020 for $3.2 billion.
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