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Cyware nabs $30M to help organizations detect and stop advanced cyber attacks

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Malicious hacking has become a pernicious and dogged fact of life for more organizations, and it’s a threat that has seemingly grown more complicated and sophisticated over time. One one effective approach to tackling that has been collaboration: not just applying an array of services to address the issue, but creating environments to help those […] Continue reading Cyware nabs $30M to help organizations detect and stop advanced cyber attacks→

Genesis raises $45M to expand its fintech-focussed low-code platform to more verticals

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Low-code and no-code tools have been a huge hit with enterprises keen to give their operations more of a tech boost, but often lack the resources to handle more complex integrations. Today, one of the startups that has been building low-code finance tools is announcing funding to tap into that trend and expand its business. […] Continue reading Genesis raises $45M to expand its fintech-focussed low-code platform to more verticals→

Assembled, an operating system for support teams, raises $16.6M

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From the point of view of a consumer, customer service sometimes feels like a monolith, but behind the scenes it can be a very fragmented business, with dozens of companies providing various different tools to help agents do their jobs. Today, a startup founded by three Stripe alums that has set out to build a […] Continue reading Assembled, an operating system for support teams, raises $16.6M→

Wefarm adds $11M to expand its network for independent farmers, now at 2.5M users

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The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments. But today comes news of funding for a startup building a social network for what is probably one of the least digital business sectors […] Continue reading Wefarm adds $11M to expand its network for independent farmers, now at 2.5M users→

Papaya Global raises $100M more at a $1B+ valuation for tools to hire, pay and manage distributed workforces

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Remote working — hiring people further afield and letting people work outside of a central physical office — is looking like it will be here to stay, and today one of the startups building tools for that environment is announcing a big fundraise in response to the opportunity. Papaya Global, an Israeli startup that provides […] Continue reading Papaya Global raises $100M more at a $1B+ valuation for tools to hire, pay and manage distributed workforces→

Dooly closes on $20M for AI-based tools to help salespeople with their busywork

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Robotic process automation has taken the enterprise world by storm, by providing a set of tools for those doing repetitive, volume-based tasks to use software to remove some of that labor to let those people focus on more complicated tasks. Today a startup that’s taken some of that ethos and is applying it to more […] Continue reading Dooly closes on $20M for AI-based tools to help salespeople with their busywork→

Axonius nabs $100M at a $1.2B valuation for its asset management cybersecurity platform

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Remote work has become the norm for many businesses in the last year, and today a startup that has built a cybersecurity platform to help manage all the devices connecting to organizations’ wide-ranging networks — while also providing a way for those organizations to take advantage of all the best that the quite fragmented security […] Continue reading Axonius nabs $100M at a $1.2B valuation for its asset management cybersecurity platform→

Blueshift raises $30M for its AI-based, integrated approach to marketing

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The concept of the “marketing cloud” — sold by the likes of Salesforce, Oracle and Adobe — has become a standard way for large tech companies to package together and sell marketing tools to businesses that want to improve how they use digital channels to grow their business. Some argue, however, that “cloud”, singular, might […] Continue reading Blueshift raises $30M for its AI-based, integrated approach to marketing→

Quill, the messaging app backed by Index, quietly comes out of stealth to take on Slack

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Slack took the workplace communications landscape by storm after it launched its integration-friendly, GIF-tastic chat platform in 2013. Within the space of a decade it entered into the pantheon of big tech: first with massive growth and usage, then a series of giant VC rounds and valuations, spawning controversial competition from incumbents, followed by a […] Continue reading Quill, the messaging app backed by Index, quietly comes out of stealth to take on Slack→

Rows, formerly dashdash, raises $16M to build and populate web apps using only spreadsheet skills

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Spreadsheet software — led by products like Microsoft’s Excel, Google’s Sheets and Apple’s Numbers — continues to be one of the most-used categories of business apps, with Excel alone clocking up more than a billion users just on its Android version. Now, a startup called Rows that’s built on that ubiquity, with a low-code platform […] Continue reading Rows, formerly dashdash, raises $16M to build and populate web apps using only spreadsheet skills→