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TikTok partners with Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Emplifi and more to make it easier for brands to reach users

TikTok is extending its Marketing Partner Program to add new content marketing partners, the company told TechCrunch. The expansion will allow marketers to manage their TikTok accounts without leaving

Constructor finds $55M for tech that powers search and discovery for e-commerce businesses

One of the biggest problems in the world of e-commerce is the predicament of shopping cart abandonment: when shoppers aren’t getting to what they want fast enough — whether it’s find

Once a buzzword, digital transformation is reshaping markets

What follows is a digest of notes concerning the recent earnings results from Box, Sprout Social, Yext, Snowflake and Salesforce.

Metigy gets $20 million AUD to make online marketing easier for SMEs

Metigy, a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their online ad campaigns, has raised a Series B of $20 million AUD (about $14.6 million USD). The

SaaS earnings bump Dropbox, Box and Sprout Social

A quick hit as we have a podcast to record, but a few public companies in the broader SaaS market reported earnings in the past week. Their results are worth unpacking as they paint a good picture of

Most tech companies aren’t WeWork

Much attention has been focused on big-burn “software-enabled” startups, but most tech IPOs in the last few years have been SaaS startups.

Seed investors favor enterprise over consumer for first time this decade

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. It’s the second to last day of 2019, meaning we’re very nearly out of

Grading the final tech IPOs of 2019

As the holiday slowdown looms, the final U.S.-listed technology IPOs have come in and begun to trade. Three tech, tech-ish or venture-backed companies went public this week: Bill.com, Sprout Social an

Chicago’s Sprout Social prices IPO mid-range at $17 per share, raising $150M

On the heels of Bill.com’s debut, Chicago-based social media software company Sprout Social priced its IPO last night at $17 per share, in the middle of its proposed $16 to $18 per-share range.

Sprout Social nabs $40.5M on an $800M valuation, doubles down on social tools for businesses

Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing and analytics service with 25,000 business customers that helps these organizations manage their public profiles and interact with customers across

Twitter bots get enterprising, courtesy of Sprout Social

These days, the idea of bots on Twitter might be associated more with accounts that auto-Tweet, auto-like, and auto-retweet messages, or are corralled into large armies that follow people and do other

Sprout Social Raises $42M For Its Marketing Tools

Sprout Social is announcing a big Series C round of funding — the company says it has raised $42 million from Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division and New Enterprise Associates. Brands usi

Social Customer Service Firm Sparkcentral Locks Up A $12M Series B

Sparkcentral, a company that provides tools to help businesses conduct customer support over social channels, has raised a $12 million Series B round of funding, led by Split Rock Partners. The compa

Sprout Social Adds New Team And Workflow Features To Social Media Management Platform

<a target="_blank" href="http://sproutsocial.com/">Sprout Social</a>, a social management and publishing tool suite, is introducing new team and workflow features to its management console. The Chicag

Social Media Manager Buffer Opens API To Developers, Looks To Become “Widespread Sharing Standard”

<a target="_blank" href="http://bufferapp.com/">Buffer</a>, a social media manager that aims to become a “widespread sharing standard,” <a target="_blank" href="http://bufferapp.com/developers/api

Sprout Social Releases Queue and ViralPost To Help Clients Better Reach Their Audience

<a target="_blank" href="http://sproutsocial.com/">Sprout Social</a>, a social management and publishing tool suite, released Sprout Queue and ViralPost today, estimating that the new features will he

Sprout Social Upgrades Social Media Management Platform With iOS Support, Personalized Dashboards And More

Chicago-based startup <a href="http://sproutsocial.com/">Sprout Social,</a> the developer of a comprehensive social relationship management platform for businesses, has rebuilt its offering from the g

Sprout Social Raises $1 Million For Social Media Management Platform

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/sprout.jpg">Chicago-based startup <a href="http://sproutsocial.com/">Sprout Social,</a> the developer of a social relationship management plat

Sprout Social Debuts Social Media Management Platform For Businesses

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/sproutsocialforwhitebackground-tagline.jpg" class="shot2">As more businesses <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/17/how-social-media-drive

Sprout Social Raises Funding, Offers Business Tools For The Social Web

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/sproutsocial1.png" class="shot2" /><a href="http://www.sproutsocial.com/">Sprout Social</a>, a provider of social relationship management serv