Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Skedulo raises $28M for its mobile workforce management service

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Skedulo, a service that helps businesses manage their mobile employees, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. Existing investors Blackbird and Castanoa Ventures also participated in this round. The company’s service offers businesses all fo the necessary tools to manage their mobile employees, […] Continue reading Skedulo raises $28M for its mobile workforce management service→

Movius raises $45M for its business communications service

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Atlanta-based Movius, a company that allows companies to assign a separate business number for voice calls and texting to any phone, today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series D round led by JPMorgan Chase, with participation from existing investors PointGuard Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Anschutz Investment company. With this, the company […] Continue reading Movius raises $45M for its business communications service→

Portworx raises $27M Series C for its cloud-native data management platform

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As enterprises adopt cloud-native technologies like containers to build their applications, the next question they often have to ask themselves is how they adapt their data storage and management practices to this new reality, too. One of the companies in this business is the four-year-old Portworx, which has managed to attract customers like Lufthansa Systems, […] Continue reading Portworx raises $27M Series C for its cloud-native data management platform→

Trello aims for the enterprise

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Trello, Atlassian’s project management tool, is doubling down on its efforts to become a better service for managing projects at work. To do so, the team is launching thirteen new features in Trello Enterprise today, making this one of the company’s biggest feature releases since the launch of the enterprise version in 2015. As the […] Continue reading Trello aims for the enterprise→

Vonage brings number programmability to its business service

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Chances are you still mostly think of Vonage as a consumer VOIP player, but in recent years, the company also launched its Vonage Business Cloud (VBC) platform and acquired Nexmo, an API-based communications service that competes directly with many of Twilio’s core services. Today, Vonage is bringing its VBC service and Nexmo a bit closer […] Continue reading Vonage brings number programmability to its business service→

Atlassian acquires AgileCraft for $166M

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Atlassian today announced that it has acquired AgileCraft, a service that aims to give enterprises plan their strategic projects and workstreams. The service provides business leaders with additional insights into the current status of technical projects and gives them insights into the bottlenecks, risks and dependencies of these projects. Indeed, the focus of AgileCraft is […] Continue reading Atlassian acquires AgileCraft for $166M→

ClimaCell bets on IoT for better weather forecasts

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To accurately forecast the weather, you first need lots of data — not just to train your forecasting models but also to generate more precise and granular forecasts. Typically, this has been the domain of government agencies, thanks to their access to this data and the compute power to run the extremely complex models. Anybody […] Continue reading ClimaCell bets on IoT for better weather forecasts→

Suse is once again an independent company

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Open-source infrastructure and application delivery vendor Suse — the company behind one of the oldest Linux distributions — today announced that it is once again an independent company. The company today finalized its $2.5 billion acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus, which itself had acquired it back in 2014. Few companies have changed […] Continue reading Suse is once again an independent company→

Microsoft open sources its data compression algorithm and hardware for the cloud

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The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like you used to zip your files back in the days of floppy disks, CD-ROMs and low-bandwidth connections. Typically, those […] Continue reading Microsoft open sources its data compression algorithm and hardware for the cloud→

Open-source communities fight over telco market

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When you think of MWC Barcelona, chances are you’re thinking about the newest smartphones and other mobile gadgets, but that’s only half the story. Actually, it’s probably far less than half the story because the majority of the business that’s done at MWC is enterprise telco business. Not too long ago, that business was all […] Continue reading Open-source communities fight over telco market→