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Salesforce could be repositioning itself as a data company
As Salesforce delves deeper into AI, the data exhaust from its core products could eventually be its most valuable asset.
Motherhood, mentorship and management with Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan from Samooha
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, the co-founder and CEO at Samooha, a startup creating the in
Savant Labs aims to bring analytics directly to line of business users
Too often over the last decade, line of business people have been forgotten when it comes to analytics. Even though these folks are the closest to what’s happening with customers, they tend to get l
Data hints at the value of startup offices
Data looks at whether having an office, at the earliest stages of company-building, truly does impact the bottom line.
Select Star closes $15M round to add context to disparate data
Select Star, a startup providing data discovery, lineage and governance tools to mostly enterprise organizations, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed Ventu
Komprise raises $37M to help companies index, manage and transform data
In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. According to a Matillion and IDG survey, data vol
Stellantis launches new business unit to turn your vehicle data into cash
Stellantis is launching a new business unit dedicated to turning all that vehicle data into marketable products — and revenue. The business unit called Mobilisights, which was announced Thursday at
Vaultree raises $12.8M to let companies more easily work with encrypted data
Several years ago, on a dairy farm in the small Irish village of Dundrum, four technologists — Maxim Dressler, Ryan Lasmaili, Shaun Mc Brearty and Tilo Weigandt — brainstormed solutions fo
Here’s everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote
AWS today announced a lot of feature updates — and little else — during its re:Invent data and machine learning-focused keynote (though there wasn’t a lot of machine learning there).
AWS gets data clean rooms for analytics data
AWS today launched a new service that will help users inside an advertising or marketing organization share data with other employees inside their company or with outside partners, all without running
Weka announces $135M investment on $750M valuation to change how companies move data
If there’s one thing that gets the attention of investors, even in uncertain times like these, it’s data efficiency. Data is the fuel for machine learning models, and getting it from point A to po
Knoetic lands $36M to unify diverse sources of HR data
In the last decade, so-called chief people officers (CPO) have seen a dramatic expansion of their day-to-day responsibilities. The role has evolved from an administrative HR function to a more strateg
Goldsky raises $20M to bring real-time, on-chain data to crypto companies
Despite well-known volatility in the crypto market, crypto startups building infrastructure to support the industry’s long-term growth have seemed to fare better than their peers. This is especi
Equalum lands new capital to help companies build data pipelines
The pandemic prompted countless companies to migrate to the cloud. By 2025, driven partly by the need for digital services, 85% of enterprises will have a cloud-first principle, according to Gartner.
Rill wants to rethink BI dashboards with embedded database and instant UX
The founders of Rill first got into databases a decade ago when they started a company called Metamarkets, which was eventually snapped up by Snap in 2017. While at Metamarkets, the company built a da
Pogo lands millions to become the ‘Honey for the real world’
If Pogo had its way, you’d get paid every time you stroll down Market Street in San Francisco. Or check your e-mail. Or open its app. The only catch is that you give your personal data to the consum
Strac plugs into Slack, OneDrive and more to automatically redact sensitive info
Increasingly, absent a federal framework, U.S. states are passing privacy and security laws aimed at protecting people’s data. The California Consumer Privacy Act is perhaps the best known, foll
This Week in Apps: Elon wants out, TikTok’s content ratings, a new milestone for subscription revenue
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in th
Wordle, hurdles and Sally’s early retirement
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann enjoyed yet another edition of E
Snowplow secures fresh cash to capture and create behavioral data
Snowplow, a platform designed to create data for AI and business intelligence applications, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by NEA, Snowplow investors, Atlan