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AI Squared raises $6M to help companies integrate AI into existing applications
AI Squared integrates AI it into existing applications in a timely and straightforward manner.
Red Sox CTO: Baseball teams need modern tech stack as much as any other biz
The Red Sox are no different than most businesses when it comes to a tech stack.
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…
Today’s chatbots are compelling. They use AI and ML algorithms to learn, speak like people, offer solutions and basic customer support, route customers and much more.
Microsoft is elevating Viva from pure employee portal to job support platform starting with sales
When Microsoft launched Viva last year, it framed the platform as an employee portal where you might go to find out parental leave policy or other internal communications directed more…
During a downturn, sales teams should think like product managers
Getting back to consumers means understanding data on them, experimenting with solutions and iterating. Sound familiar? That’s exactly what product teams do to refine their offerings.
Each company is unique and faces diverse circumstances during a downturn. The best advice for handling the downturn should be based on the length of your runway and the efficiency…
Why it’s so hard to market enterprise AI/ML products and what to do about it
Healthy pipeline generation is the bugbear of the AI/ML industry, yet there is very little content on how to address it.
GitLab proves it’s possible to get a better valuation for your software company
GitLab just showed that it’s possible to make investors so very happy that they reprice you by more than 25% in a single day. Let’s find out how.
Who knows whether it’s FOMO or actual customer demand for such a thing, but Salesforce announced today that it’s launching a pilot of NFT Cloud, a new platform for buying…
AppOmni raises $70M to find and secure vulnerabilities in SaaS app stacks
As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. That’s resulted in a strong run of funding…
You may be having a problem with the economy, but Salesforce sure isn’t
If you’re a regular reader of the tech and business press, it’s been painting a pretty gloomy economic picture recently, with a tendency to accentuate the negative. There’s inflation and…
Not everyone is on board with the idea of remote work. But for those who are, Slack’s new profile features released today should make some workday tasks, particularly onboarding, a…
Bonfire Ventures secures $230M for two new funds targeting B2B software startups
Bonfire Ventures aims to help B2B software startups make it to Series A.
Microsoft joins Salesforce, Google and IBM in offering sustainability tracking products
As environmental issues take center stage with increasingly severe weather incidents, wildfires, droughts and floods across the globe, companies that generate pollution up and down the supply chain are looking…
Tableau enhances links to Salesforce AI as it works to blend more into ecosystem
When Salesforce spent almost $16 billion to buy Tableau in 2019, it was getting a company with a goal of bringing data to the masses. As a cloud solution, it…
Daily Crunch: Peloton CEO to shareholders: ‘Turnarounds are hard work’
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Proving that there’s an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to…
AutoRabit, which develops tooling for Salesforce CRM devs, lands $26M
AutoRabit, which provides CI/CD tools for Salesforce customer dev teams, today announced that it raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by Full In Partners, bringing the…
Lumos, a startup that wants to provide an end-to-end solution for enterprises to manage all of the SaaS apps their employees use, is coming out of stealth today. The company…
Daily Crunch: US dangles reward up to $10M for info on 6 elite Russian military hackers
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Salesforce’s low-code workflow tool aims to unify CRM giant’s largest acquisitions
Salesforce is a big, complex set of services, which has been augmented via acquisition with several other big complex services, including MuleSoft, Tableau and Slack, three companies the CRM giant…
New Salesforce developer tools look to tighten integration with Slack
This week during its TrailblazerDX 2022 conference, Salesforce announced a new set of low-code developer tools and integrations intended to bring Slack and Salesforce’s broader software portfolio closer together. Called…
Daily Crunch: Experts say Musk’s open-source vision could make Twitter vulnerable to attack
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Qualified raises $95M to help Salesforce users with sales pipeline generation
Lead generation is a critical cornerstone in the world of sales — in a seemingly infinite sea of potential customers, you need to know who wants to buy, or who…
Salesforce and Twitter are both lucky their purported $20B deal failed in 2016
What if history gone a bit differently and Salesforce had bought Twitter in 2016? We spoke to some analysts who cover the CRM industry to get their thoughts.
DoControl raises $30M for no-code security tools for cloud app log-ins
Cloud security is one of the big drivers among enterprises making IT investments this year, according to a recent report from Gartner, which estimated that some $4.4 trillion in IT…
Facebook is struggling to reinvent itself under the same leadership that brought it success. Twitter, in contrast, is now run by a non-founder, and added a controversial power-user to its…
The answers to real estate’s climate tech questions may be all around us
For those who do care, there is no shortage of confusion on how to best tackle the looming threat of climate change. But what if an answer was lying right…
Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services
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