Enterprise
Hearsay, maker of compliant tools for financial services, deepens ties with Salesforce
6:30 am PDT • July 29, 2020
Financial services companies like banks and insurance tend to be heavily regulated. As such, they require a special level of security and auditability. Hearsay, which makes compliant communications tools for…
Enterprise
SAP decision to spin out Qualtrics 20 months after spending $8B surprises industry watchers
11:46 am PDT • July 28, 2020
When SAP announced on Sunday that it was spinning out Qualtrics, a company it bought less than two years ago for an eye-popping $8 billion, it was enough to make…
Enterprise
YC alum Paragon snags $2.5M seed for low-code app integration platform
7:19 am PDT • July 28, 2020
Low-code is a hot category these days. It helps companies build workflows or simple applications without coding skills, freeing up valuable engineering resources for more important projects. Paragon, a member…
Enterprise
Explorium reels in $31M Series B as data discovery platform grows
6:00 am PDT • July 28, 2020
In a world with growing amounts of data, finding the right set for a particular machine learning model can be a challenge. Explorium has created a platform to make that…
When it comes to choosing a tech stack, the decisions you make today could have a cascading impact for years.
Enterprise
IObeya raises $17M to digitize management planning processes like Agile
9:00 am PDT • July 23, 2020
As we move deeper into the pandemic, companies are looking for ways to digitize processes that previously required in-person meetings with manual approaches. Investors appear to be rewarding companies that…
Startups
Reflect wants to help you automate web testing without writing code
9:16 am PDT • July 22, 2020
Reflect, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 class, is building a tool to automate website and web application testing, making it faster to get your site up and…
As the pandemic has shut down in-person meetings, and pushed us online, products like Zoom, Cisco WebEx, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become part of our daily lives. Into…
Enterprise
Microsoft introduces Customer Voice, a real-time customer feedback tool
8:00 am PDT • July 21, 2020
At Microsoft Inspire today, the company made several Dynamics 365 announcements, including Dynamics 365 Customer Voice, a real-time customer feedback tool that could compete with Qualtrics, the company SAP bought…
Media & Entertainment
Fox Sports launches redesigned app with modern design, bonus camera angles
5:30 am PDT • July 20, 2020
As the sports world slowly begins to emerge from the pandemic shutdown, with MLB scheduled to start this week, Fox Sports is launching its redesigned sports app today for Android…
Featured Article
In the cloud era, building on platforms you don’t own is normal
When Salesforce launched Force.com in 2007, it was the culmination of years of work to bring together a way to customize Salesforce and eventually to build applications on top of the platform. By using a set of Salesforce services, companies could take advantage of work that SFDC had already done, speeding up building time and…
10:15 am PDT • July 16, 2020
Puppet, the Portland, Oregon-based infrastructure automation company, announced a $40 million debt round today from BlackRock Investments. CEO Yvonne Wassenaar says the company sees this debt round as part of…
Enterprise
Qumulo scores $125M Series E on $1.2B valuation as storage biz accelerates
6:00 am PDT • July 16, 2020
Qumulo, a Seattle storage startup helping companies store vast amounts of data, announced a $125 million Series E investment today on a $1.2 billion valuation. BlackRock led the round with…
Enterprise
Sumeru Equity Partners buys majority stake in SocialChorus with $100M investment
6:33 am PDT • July 15, 2020
SocialChorus, a startup that helps distribute communications internally in a similar way marketers reach customers externally, announced a $100 million investment today led by Sumeru Equity Partners. With this investment,…
Enterprise
Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599
6:00 am PDT • July 15, 2020
Zoom has become the de facto standard for online communications during the pandemic, but the company has found that it’s still a struggle for many employees to set up the…
Startups
Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP
7:49 am PDT • July 14, 2020
Recurrency, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, was started by a 21 year old just out of college. He decided to take on a highly established market…
Jyoti Bansal founded AppDynamics, a company that Cisco bought in 2017 for $3.7 billion. He might have been content to rest on that big win, but instead he went on…
Enterprise
New Acquia platform looks to bring together developers, marketers and data
5:01 am PDT • July 14, 2020
Acquia, the commercial company built on top of the open source Drupal content management system has pushed to be more than a publishing platform in recent years, using several strategic…
Enterprise
Analog Devices to acquire rival chipmaker Maxim Integrated for $21 billion
4:45 am PDT • July 13, 2020
Analog Devices didn’t waste any time kicking off the week with a bang when it announced this morning it was acquiring rival chipmaker Maxim Integrated Products for $20.91 billion (according…
Last year, Gartner found that robotic process automation (RPA) is the fastest growing category in enterprise software. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that UiPath, a leading startup…
Enterprise
Operator Collective brings diversity and inclusion to enterprise investing
10:03 am PDT • July 10, 2020
When Mallun Yen started Operator Collective last year, she wanted to build an investment firm for people who didn’t have a voice in Silicon Valley. That meant connecting women and…
LogDNA, a startup that helps DevOps teams dig through their log data to find issues, announced a $25 million Series C investment today along with the promotion of industry vet…
Garry Kasparov is a political activist who’s written books and articles on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and online privacy, but he’s best known for being the former World Chess Champion who took on…
Enterprise
Slack snags corporate directory startup Rimeto to up its people search game
7:02 am PDT • July 8, 2020
For the second time in less than 24 hours, an enterprise company bought an early-stage startup. Yesterday afternoon DocuSign acquired Liveoak, and this morning Slack announced it was buying corporate…
Most sales teams earn a commission after a sale closes, but nothing prior to that. Yet there are a variety of signals along the way that indicate the sales process…
Enterprise
DocuSign acquires Liveoak Technologies for $38M for online notarization
1:07 pm PDT • July 7, 2020
Even in the best of times, finding a notary can be a challenge. In the middle of a pandemic, it’s even more difficult. DocuSign announced it has acquired Liveoak Technologies…
Enterprise
Zoom announces new Hardware as a Service offering to run on ServiceNow
7:57 am PDT • July 7, 2020
Zoom announced a new Hardware as a Service offering today that will run on the ServiceNow platform. At the same time, the company announced a deal with ServiceNow to standardize…
Startups
Northflank announces $2.6M seed to create end-to-end DevOps workflow in cloud
6:00 am PDT • July 7, 2020
Northflank, a startup from a couple of guys in their 20s, has been working on a full-stack DevOps platform in the cloud since their first year at university in 2016.…
Enterprise
OwnBackup lands $50M as backup for Salesforce ecosystem thrives
2:00 am PDT • July 7, 2020
OwnBackup has made a name for itself primarily as a backup and disaster recovery system for the Salesforce ecosystem, and today the company announced a $50 million investment. Insight Partners…
Startups
QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database
7:08 am PDT • July 2, 2020
QuestDB, a member of the Y Combinator summer 2020 cohort, is building an open source time series database with speed top of mind. Today the startup announced a $2.3 million…
