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Slack opens at $38.50, a pop of 48% on its first day of trading on NYSE as WORK
Slack, the workplace messaging platform that has helped define a key category of enterprise IT, made its debut as a public company today with a pop. Trading as “WORK” on the New York Stock
SaaS data protection provider Druva nabs $130M, now at a $1B+ valuation, acquiring CloudLanes
As businesses continue to move more of their computing and data to the cloud, one of the startups that has made a name for itself as a provider of cloud-based solutions to protect and manage those IT
Dawn Capital closes $125M Opportunities Fund to double down on its biggest bets
Dawn Capital has made a name for itself over the last several years for having a sharp eye when it comes to spotting interesting B2B startups in Europe before they become big, with companies like iZet
Kano, the kids-focused coding and hardware startup, inks deal with Microsoft, launches $300 Kano PC
Kano, the London-based startup that builds hardware designed to teach younger people about computing and coding, is taking a significant step forward in its growth strategy today. The startup has inke
Fluent acquires AdParlor, a social ad specialist previously owned by Adknowledge, for $10M
The old guard of advertising networks continues to swap hands. In the latest development, marketing company Fluent has announced that it is buying AdParlor, a company that built early inroads into adv
Blue Prism acquires UK’s Thoughtonomy for up to $100M to expand its RPA platform with more AI
Robotic process automation — which lets organizations shift repetitive back-office tasks to machines to complete — has been a hot area of growth in the world of enterprise IT, and now one
Roli’s newest instrument, the Lumi, helps you learn to play piano with lights
There has been a longstanding gulf between the consumption of music and the creation of it: not everyone has the time or money to spend on lessons and instruments, and for those in school, many music
Amazon’s Twitch acquired social networking platform Bebo for up to $25M to bolster its esports efforts
While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar
Symphony, a messaging app that’s been a hit with Wall Street, raises $165M at a $1.4B valuation
Slack’s rapid rise and upcoming IPO are clear signs of the ripe opportunity to be had in the field of enterprise messaging. Today, a startup that’s built a messaging product specifically f
RapidAPI nabs $25M led by Microsoft as its API marketplace cracks 10K APIs and 1M users
APIs — the lightweight programming interfaces used by developers to integrate other applications with theirs, or to help their apps integrate with others — have become an essential buildin
Uber rival Bolt returns to London 21 months after a TfL investigation shut it down
Bolt, the Uber rival formerly known as Taxify, is taking a significant step this week in its effort to build out its transportation-on-demand business across the biggest cities in Europe and Africa, w
Salesforce is officially making Seattle its second HQ after its Tableau acquisition
Here’s an interesting by-product of the news today that Salesforce would be acquiring Tableau for $15.7 billion: the company is going to make Seattle, Wash. (home of Tableau) the official second
Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal
On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more gene
Depop, a social app targeting millennial and Gen Z shoppers, bags $62M, passes 13M users
The rising popularity of omni-channel commerce — selling to customers wherever they happen to be spending time online — has spawned an army of shopping tools and platforms that are giving
Step raises $22.5M led by Stripe to build no-fee banking services for teens
The smartphone revolution has well and truly disrupted the world of banking. A wide range of startups have cropped up that have completely removed the need to make visits to physical branches to open
Sources: Bird is in talks to acquire scooter startup Scoot
Consolidation is afoot in the micromobility industry.
Alibaba, Mail.Ru, Megafon form AliExpress Russia JV to double down on e-commerce in CIS
After announcing plans in September 2018 to build a joint venture together, today Russian internet giant Mail.ru, Megafon and China’s Alibaba announced that the deal has closed. With support a
LinkedIn to shutter Chitu, its Chinese-language app, in July, redirects users to LinkedIn in Chinese
LinkedIn has long eyed China as an important country to offset slowing growth in more mature markets. But now it’s calling time on a localized effort after failing to see it pick up steam. The c
Amazon launches physical kiosks in UK train stations, a local extension of its Treasure Trucks
After announcing a year-long pilot of pop-up shops in the UK earlier this week to sell items from smaller marketplace merchants, Amazon has added another development to its brick-and-mortar efforts i
SentinelOne raises $120M for its fully autonomous, AI-based endpoint security solution
Endpoint security — the branch of cybersecurity that focuses on data coming in from laptops, phones, and other devices connected to a network — is an $8 billion dollar market that, due to