Author Archives: Anthony Ha

Notivize makes it easier for non-technical teams to optimize app notifications

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A new startup called Notivize aims to give product teams direct access to one of their most important tools for increasing user engagement — notifications. The company has been testing the product with select customers since last year and says it has already sent hundreds of thousands of notifications. And this week, it announced that […] Continue reading Notivize makes it easier for non-technical teams to optimize app notifications→

DSP Concepts raises $14.5M for its Audio Weaver platform

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DSP Concepts — a startup whose Audio Weaver software is used by companies as varied as Tesla, Porsche, GoPro and Braun Audio — is announcing that it’s raised $14.5 million in Series B funding. The startup goal, as explained to me by CEO Chin Beckmann and CTO Paul Beckmann (yep, they’re a husband-and-wife founding team), […] Continue reading DSP Concepts raises $14.5M for its Audio Weaver platform→

Daily Crunch: LinkedIn is getting a new CEO

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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Jeff Weiner will step down as CEO of LinkedIn June 1, product head Ryan Roslansky steps up The changes are LinkedIn’s […] Continue reading Daily Crunch: LinkedIn is getting a new CEO→

Daily Crunch: IBM names new CEO

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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Arvind Krishna will replace Ginni Rometty as IBM CEO in April Krishna, IBM’s senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software, […] Continue reading Daily Crunch: IBM names new CEO→

Corporate relocation startup Shyft raises $15M

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Shyft is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding to make the moving process less painful — specifically in the situations where your employer is paying for the move. There other startups are looking to offer concierge-type services for regular moving — I used a service called Moved last year and […] Continue reading Corporate relocation startup Shyft raises $15M→

Customer data platform ActionIQ raises $32M

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ActionIQ co-founder and CEO Tasso Argyros knows that there are plenty of companies promising to help businesses use their customer data to deliver personalized experiences — as he put it, “The space has gotten very, very hot over the last couple of years.” But in the face of growing competition, ActionIQ (founded in 2014 and […] Continue reading Customer data platform ActionIQ raises $32M→

Daily Crunch: VMware completes Pivotal acquisition

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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition VMware is closing the year with a significant new weapon in its arsenal. (I restrained […] Continue reading Daily Crunch: VMware completes Pivotal acquisition→

Soci raises $12M to help big brands manage local marketing

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According to CEO Afif Khoury, we’re in the middle of “the third wave of social” — a shift back to local interactions. And Khoury’s startup Soci (pronounced soh-shee) has raised $12 million in Series C funding to help companies navigate that shift. Soci works with customers like Ace Hardware and Sport Clips to help them […] Continue reading Soci raises $12M to help big brands manage local marketing→

Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform

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Amperity announced today that it’s acquiring another company in the customer data business, Custora. Amperity co-founder and CEO Kabir Shahani told me that Custora’s technology complements what Amperity is already offering. To illustrate this point, he said that customer data tools fall into three big buckets: “The first is know your customer, the second is […] Continue reading Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform→

Seismic acquires Percolate to expand its marketing tools

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Seismic is announcing that it’s acquiring Percolate in a deal that it says is combining “two essential pillars of the marketing technology stack.” It sounds like the two companies aren’t direct competitors, but they offer related tools: Seismic helps companies create and manage the content they use in sales and marketing, while Percolate expanded from […] Continue reading Seismic acquires Percolate to expand its marketing tools→