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ClickUp raises $400M at a $4B valuation to expand its all-in-one workplace productivity platform to Europe
Companies like Slack and Asana stormed into the world of tech to steal a march on incumbents like Microsoft in providing a new wave of point solutions to make it…
xentral, an ERP platform for SMBs, raises $75M Series B from Tiger Global and Meritech
Enterprise Resource Planning systems have traditionally been the preserve of larger companies, but in recent years the amount of data small to medium-sized businesses can generate has increased to the…
Willow, the startup making the wearable breast pump, raises $55 million
Willow, the startup company making a new, wearable, breast pump for women, is capping off a frenetic 2020 with $55 million in fresh funding as it looks to expand its…
Outreach nabs $50M at a $1.33B valuation for software that helps with sales engagement
CRM software has become a critical piece of IT when it comes to getting business done, and today a startup focusing on one specific aspect of that stack — sales…
Verkada raises $80M at $1.6B to be every building’s security OS
Fifty iPads were stolen from Verkada co-founder Hans Robertson’s old company. Only when they checked the security system did they realize the video cameras hadn’t been working for months. He…
Contract management startup Icertis becomes unicorn with $115M new round
Icertis, a Washington-headquartered startup that develops cloud-based software to help large companies manage contracts, has raised $115 million at more than a billion-dollar valuation to become the latest SaaS unicorn…
Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service
Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round. The round was…
Update: Cash-strapped Wonga goes into administration in the UK
Update: That’s it for Wonga’s UK business. The beleaguered payday loans company has just confirmed it’s gone into administration. Although it says its overseas businesses are continuing to trade — at…
Duo Security raises $70 million at a valuation north of $1 billion
Duo Security today announced its Series D funding that puts the company in unicorn territory. The company raised $70 million led by Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital at…
Pendo closes $25M Series C from Meritech to scale its customer understanding platform
Just seven months after announcing a $20 million Series B, Pendo, a platform to help businesses better understand their customers, has closed a new $25 million Series C led by…
Looker catches the fancy of CapitalG, Goldman and Geodesic with $81.5M Series D
Business intelligence platform Looker is announcing an $81.5 million Series D today led by CapitalG. Rather than compete in segmented markets against visualization and data preparation startups, Looker wants to…
Roblox nabs $92 million to power its massive social gaming platform for kids
Roblox has spent the greater part of the millennium creating a cool place for kids to play a diverse collection of games inside a single cross-platform world for its huge…
Pay To Play: How Investors Get Burned Fast In A Downturn
Earlier this year, the law firm Fenwick & West published a report analyzing the financing terms of 37 U.S.-based venture-backed companies that raised money at valuations of $1 billion or more in…
Alteryx, which offers an analytics tool aimed at business users, announced an $85 million round today. Today’s deal comes on top of the $60 million deal last October and brings…
Looker Raises Another $30M For Its New Approach To Business Intelligence
Looker, a business intelligence startup co-founded by early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps Lloyd Tabb, has raised another $30 million in Series B funding, money that co-founder and CEO…
GuideSpark Raises $22.2M To Create Customized Videos That Make HR Less Tedious And Confusing
GuideSpark, a startup that helps human resources teams communicate with the rest of the company, announced today that it has raised $22.2 million in Series C funding. CEO Keith Kitani…