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Usage-based pricing is rising, but not replacing other models
Today we're unpacking OpenView's second State of Usage-Based Pricing report.
Samooha launches with tech that lets companies securely share data
Samooha, a startup developing a “cross-cloud” data collaboration platform, today announced that it raised $12.5 million in a funding tranche backed by Altimeter Capital and Snowflake Ventu
Some Salesforce employees just found out they’re part of the 10% layoff announced last month
When Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce last month, you might have assumed that meant that everyone who was affected was informed at that time. With social media flush with pe
ToolJet, an open source low-code app builder, wants to help companies do more with less
“Do more with less” has emerged as something of a business mantra over the past year, as businesses across the industrial spectrum have faced growing economic headwinds. Companies have bee
Dashlane publishes its source code to GitHub in transparency push
Password management company Dashlane has made its mobile app code available on GitHub for public perusal, a first step it says in a broader push to make its platform more transparent. The Dashlane And
Penpot, the open source platform for designers and their coders, draws up $12M as users jump to 250K
Open source projects continue to stand out as compelling alternatives to proprietary software for those who are looking for more flexibility or price leverage in the tools that they use to work. Today
Lavender lands $13.2M for its AI-powered email marketing engine
Years ago, Will Allred and William Ballance were developing a tech platform, Sorter, to apply personality and communication psychology to marketing campaigns. Just as Sorter was heading to market, the
Optimizing freemium products: Challenges and opportunities
Enabling freemium can bring organizational and operational challenges, even if it adds value to the business.
New Red Hat partnerships with SAP and Oracle could bode well for owner IBM
It’s been a good week for Red Hat, and by extension IBM, the company that owns it. That’s because Red Hat signed two partnership agreements this week, one with Oracle and the other with SAP. Those
Netlify acquires front-end platform Gatsby
Web development platform Netlify today announced that it has acquired its competitor Gatsby, the company behind the opensource GatsbyJS framework. Gatsby, which had raised a total of $46.8 million, in
Digs is a Figma-like collaboration tool for home builders and suppliers
Digs, a Vancouver, Washington-based startup that is developing a collaboration tool for homebuilders and their vendors, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7 million seed funding round fr
Portugal’s Coverflex raises a €15M Series A to make employee benefits more flexible and engaging
In the current environment, startups are having to do a couple of seemingly contradictory things at the same time. First, they have to keep employees (the ones they want to keep, at least) happy. Then
Passthrough raises $10M to simplify the process of investor onboarding
Tim Flannery, Alex Laplante and Ben Doran were working together at Carta’s investor services team when they realized that onboarding funds to invest in startups was a taxing (no pun intended) proces
Risilience, a climate analytics and risk assessment platform for enterprises, raises $26M
Risilience, a SaaS-based analytics platform that helps companies assess their climate risk and plan their transition toward net-zero carbon emissions, has raised $26 million in a Series B round of fu
Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?
A report shines a light on the world of open source startups, including which ones are growing and which are raising cash.
ValueBase, backed by Sam Altman’s Hydrazine, raises $1.6 million seed round
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes AI can help usher in “unbelievable abundance,” but he says he wants to ensure that such abundance is shared. Toward that end, Altman has embraced a theory of
TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS spending squeeze, tax time tips, freemium frameworks
Finding meaningful ways to slash spending can extend your runway and even stave off layoffs in the long run.
Sentra raises $30M to provide a security layer for data in the cloud
The move to the cloud, accelerated by the pandemic, continues unabated. By 2025, Gartner estimates that more than 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30% i
Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet
When you hear the word “intranet,” chances are your mind is conjuring up images of badly designed internal communications platforms from the early aughts: a place for your internal communi
NetApp, a specialist in cloud data management, says it will lay off 8%, or around 960 people, citing economic climate
NetApp, one of the big players in cloud data management, today announced that it would lay off 8% of its staff, citing “macroeconomic challenges and the reduced spending environment” in th