Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

Abstract, a versioning platform that helps designers work like developers, raises $30M

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Design and engineering are two sides of the same coin when it comes to building software and hardware, and yet — unlike engineers, who can use services like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab or many others to help manage their development process — it’s traditionally been slim pickings for designers when it comes to tools to manage […] Continue reading Abstract, a versioning platform that helps designers work like developers, raises $30M→

Teams, Microsoft’s Slack competitor, says it’s signed up over 500k organizations, adds whiteboard and live events support

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Microsoft Teams, the collaboration platform that Microsoft built to complement its Office 365 suite of productivity apps for workers — which also ensures a way of keeping those workers staying within its own ecosystem — is hitting a milestone on its second birthday. Today, the company announced that over 500,000 organizations are now using Teams. […] Continue reading Teams, Microsoft’s Slack competitor, says it’s signed up over 500k organizations, adds whiteboard and live events support→

Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform

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The growth of augmented and virtual reality applications and hardware is ushering in a new age of digital media and imaging technologies, and startups that are putting themselves at the center of that are attracting interest. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Matterport, which started out making cameras but has since diversified into a wider […] Continue reading Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform→

Compass acquires Contactually, a CRM provider to the real estate industry

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Compass, the real estate tech platform that is now worth $4.4 billion, has made an acquisition to give its agents a boost when it comes to looking for good leads on properties to sell. It is acquiring Contactually, an AI-based CRM platform designed specifically for the industry, which includes features like linking up a list […] Continue reading Compass acquires Contactually, a CRM provider to the real estate industry→

Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabaling work conversations

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The rapid rise of Slack has ushered in a new wave of apps, all aiming to solve one challenge: creating a user-friendly platform where coworkers can have productive conversations. Many of these are based around real-time notifications and “instant” messaging, but today a new startup called Threads coming out of stealth to address the other […] Continue reading Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabaling work conversations→

JFrog acquires Shippable, adding continuous integration and delivery to its DevOps platform

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JFrog, the popular DevOps startup now valued at over $1 billion after raising $165 million last October, is making a move to expand the tools and services it provides to developers on its software operations platform: it has acquired Shippable, a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and […] Continue reading JFrog acquires Shippable, adding continuous integration and delivery to its DevOps platform→

GN acquires Altia Systems for $125M to add video to its advanced audio solutions

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Some interesting M&A is afoot in the world of hardware and software that’s aiming to improve the quality of audio and video communications over digital networks. GN Group — the Danish company that broke new ground in mobile when it inked deals first with Apple and then Google to stream audio from their phones directly […] Continue reading GN acquires Altia Systems for $125M to add video to its advanced audio solutions→

Senseon raises $6.4M to tackle cybersecurity threats with an AI ‘triangulation’ approach

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Darktrace helped pave the way for using artificial intelligence to combat malicious hacking and enterprise security breaches. Now a new UK startup founded by an ex-Darktrace executive has raised some funding to take the use of AI in cybersecurity to the next level. Senseon, which has pioneered a new model that it calls “AI triangulation” — simultaneously […] Continue reading Senseon raises $6.4M to tackle cybersecurity threats with an AI ‘triangulation’ approach→

Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada

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The recruitment market is big business — worth some $554 billion annually according to the most recent report from the World Employment Confederation. In the tech world, that translates into a big opportunity to build tools to make a recruiter’s work easier, faster and more likely of success in finding the right people for the […] Continue reading Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada→

Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play

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Jobvite, the company that was once an early mover in leveraging social networks to help source job opportunities and find interesting candidates for openings, is today announcing two big moves to double down on its ambition to build a bigger platform for recruitment and applicant tracking. The company has picked up an investment of over […] Continue reading Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play→