Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

In travel tech, 4 rivals merge in Europe to form Altido for property management of Airbnb-style homes

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The growth of Airbnb and other big travel startups has given a fillip to the wider travel industry, and today several smaller startups in the short-term property sector are announcing that they have merged to tackle the opportunity with more scale. The UK’s BnbBuddy and The London Residents Club, along with both Hintown from Italy […] Continue reading In travel tech, 4 rivals merge in Europe to form Altido for property management of Airbnb-style homes→

LinkedIn integrates and updates jobs and hiring platforms, hits 20M job postings

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LinkedIn, the social networking platform for the working world that’s now owned by Microsoft, has leveraged its role as a repository for people’s work profiles into making itself a job hunting and recruitment powerhouse. The company today has amassed more than 20 million job listings — up from a mere 300,000  five years ago — […] Continue reading LinkedIn integrates and updates jobs and hiring platforms, hits 20M job postings→

Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing platform, says it will make $700M in 2019

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Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Georgia, is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage their customer-facing email activities — a profitable business that its CEO told TechCrunch has now grown to around 11 million customers and is on track for $700 million in revenue in 2019. To help hit that […] Continue reading Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing platform, says it will make $700M in 2019→

InCountry raises $7M to help multinationals store private data in countries of origin

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The last few years have seen a rapid expansion of national regulations that, in the name of data protection, govern how and where organizations like healthcare and insurance companies, financial services companies and others store residents’ personal data that is used and collected through their services. But keeping abreast of and following those rules has […] Continue reading InCountry raises $7M to help multinationals store private data in countries of origin→

UiPath nabs $568M at a $7B valuation to bring robotic process automation to the front office

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Companies are on the hunt for ways to reduce the time and money it costs their employees to perform repetitive tasks, so today a startup that has built a business to capitalize on this is announcing a huge round of funding to double down on the opportunity. UiPath — a robotic process automation startup originally […] Continue reading UiPath nabs $568M at a $7B valuation to bring robotic process automation to the front office→

SalesLoft nabs $70M at $500M valuation for its sales engagement platform

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Artificial intelligence and other tech for automating some of the more repetitive aspects of human jobs continues to be a growing category of software, and today a company that builds tools to address this need for salespeople has raised a tidy sum to grow its business. SalesLoft, an Atlanta-based startup that has built a platform […] Continue reading SalesLoft nabs $70M at $500M valuation for its sales engagement platform→

VDOO secures $32M for a platform that uses AI to detect and fix vulnerabilities on IoT devices

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Our universe of connected things is expanding by the day: the number of objects with embedded processors now exceeds the number of smartphones globally and is projected to reach some 18 billion devices by 2022. But just as that number is growing, so are the opportunities for malicious hackers to use these embedded devices to crack […] Continue reading VDOO secures $32M for a platform that uses AI to detect and fix vulnerabilities on IoT devices→

Salesforce ‘acquires’ Salesforce.org for $300M in a wider refocus on the non-profit sector

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Salesforce yesterday announced a move to reposition how it provides software to and works with non-profits like educational institutions and charities: the company announced that it would integrate Salesforce.org — which had been a reseller of Salesforce software and services to the nonprofit sector — into Salesforce itself as part of a larger, new nonprofit and […] Continue reading Salesforce ‘acquires’ Salesforce.org for $300M in a wider refocus on the non-profit sector→

Logistics startup Zencargo raises $20M to take on the antiquated business of freight forwarding

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Move over, Flexport. There is another player looking to make waves in the huge and messy business of freight logistics. Zencargo — a London startup that has built a platform that uses machine learning and other new technology to rethink how large shipping companies and their customers manage and move cargo, or freight forwarding as […] Continue reading Logistics startup Zencargo raises $20M to take on the antiquated business of freight forwarding→

Rasa raises $13M led by Accel for its developer-friendly open source approach to chatbots

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Conversational AI and the use of chatbots have been through multiple cycles of hype and disillusionment in the tech world. You know the story: first you get a launch from the likes of Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google or any number of other companies, and then you get the many examples of how their services […] Continue reading Rasa raises $13M led by Accel for its developer-friendly open source approach to chatbots→