Kyle Wiggers
Senior Reporter, Enterprise
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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B
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Tech companies respond to US Supreme Court abortion decision
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a major decision on abortion today, overturning Roe v. Wade and declaring that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee the right to abortion. While the outcome was
Daily Crunch: London-based SumUp pins $8.5B valuation with $624M debt-equity round
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Daily Crunch: Raba Partnership leads $2.1M seed round for African fintech startup Thepeer
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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform
Strapi, an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures and angel investo
Courier lands $35M to build a service for app notifications
App notifications, well intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life. A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that — aside from email and work app alerts — the average person
Software DevOps platform Gearset raises $55M
Gearset, a tooling provider for Salesforce software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding tranche led by Silversmith Capital Partners. Co-founder and CEO Kevin Boyle said that the n
Eppo, a product experimentation platform, raises $19.5M for expansion
Despite the demand for platforms that let developers experiment with different versions of apps, the infrastructure required remains relatively complex to build. Beyond data pipelines and statistical
Data management vendor Ataccama receives $150M infusion from Bain
In recent years, there’s been an explosion of tools that allow businesses to connect, transform, analyze and serve data from all kinds of sources. Combined with the increasing pressure on busine
Meta settles lawsuit with Justice Department over ad-serving algorithms
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that it entered into an agreement with Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to resolve a lawsuit that alleged Meta engaged in discriminatory advertisin
Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available
Last June, Microsoft-owned GitHub and OpenAI launched Copilot, a service that provides suggestions for whole lines of code inside development environments like Microsoft Visual Studio. Available as
Deno raises $21M to launch a fully managed runtime service
Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, today announced that it closed a $21 million Series A round led by Sequoia that brings its total raised to $26 million. According to CE
Join secures new cash to build a ‘decision-making’ platform for construction
Join, a decision-making platform for architecture, engineering and construction, today closed a $16 million Series A round led by SignalFire with participation from Ironspring Ventures, Metaprop, Buil
Share raises $12M to help companies offer transportation to their employees
Share Mobility, which provides transportation solutions for companies, today announced that it closed a $12 million Series A led by Iron Gate Capital and Renewal Funds with participation from Employme
Neuron7 raises $10M to help customer service agents find solutions
In the customer service arena in particular, enterprises are facing a historic labor shortage. Owing to burnout, flexibility and customer satisfaction challenges, agents are quitting at a faster rate
Bardeen raises $15.3M for browser-based workflow automation
The advantages of software that automates everyday workflows don’t have to be spelled out. In theory, it’s a major labor saver — not to mention wallet-friendly. But perhaps because a
LogRocket nabs $25M for ‘intelligent’ app analytics
LogRocket, a provider of software frontend monitoring and analytics services, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C round co-led by Delta-V Capital and Battery Ventures. CEO Matt Ar
Platform.sh secures $140M for web app development tools
The growing complexity of web infrastructure is a challenge that many organizations face today. When building and deploying web apps, IT teams must grapple with an array of choices, from selecting whi
Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers
Data centers, which drive the apps, websites and services that billions of people use every day, can be hazardous places for the workers that build and maintain them. Workers sometimes have to service
Unified-IO is an AI system that can complete a range of tasks, including generating images
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the division within the nonprofit Allen Institute focused on machine learning research, today published its work on an AI system, called Unified-IO, that it claims is