Author Archives: Connie Loizos

Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of law offices

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The global legal services industry was worth $849 billion dollars in 2017 and is expected to become a trillion dollar industry by the end of next year. Little wonder that Steno, an L.A.-based startup, wants a piece. Like most legal services outfits, what it offers are ways for law practices to run more smoothly, including […] Continue reading Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of law offices→

Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups

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Yesterday at TechCrunch’s Enterprise event in San Francisco, we sat down with three venture capitalists who spend a lot of their time thinking about enterprise startups. We wanted to ask what trends they are seeing, what concerns they might have about the state of the market and, of course, how startups might persuade them to […] Continue reading Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups→

Backed by Benchmark, Blue Hexagon just raised $31 million for its deep learning cybersecurity software

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Nayeem Islam spent nearly 11 years with chipmaker Qualcomm, where he founded its Silicon Valley-based R&D facility, recruited its entire team and oversaw research on all aspects of security, including applying machine learning on mobile devices and in the network to detect threats early. Islam was nothing if not prolific, developing a system for on-device machine […] Continue reading Backed by Benchmark, Blue Hexagon just raised $31 million for its deep learning cybersecurity software→

Meet Jennifer Tejada, the secret weapon of one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing enterprise software startups

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PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesn’t receive a fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software companies receive. In fact, though it counts as customers heavyweight companies like Capital One, Spotify and Netflix; it employs 500 employees; and it has five offices around the world, it […] Continue reading Meet Jennifer Tejada, the secret weapon of one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing enterprise software startups→

Background checks pay for Checkr, which just rang up $100 million in new funding

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Criminal records, driving records, employment verifications. Companies that use on-demand employees need to know that all the boxes have been checked before they send workers into the world on their behalf, and they often need those boxes checked quickly. A growing number of them use Checkr, a San Francisco-based company that says it currently runs […] Continue reading Background checks pay for Checkr, which just rang up $100 million in new funding→