Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

Pitch, from the founders of Wunderlist, raises $19M to take on Powerpoint in presentations

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Microsoft’s Powerpoint today has over 1 billion installs, 500 million users, and some 95 percent market share, making it the most ubiquitous presentation software in the world. But that doesn’t make it the most loved. Now, a new startup out of Berlin called Pitch is emerging from stealth with plans to challenge it, by making what CEO […] Continue reading Pitch, from the founders of Wunderlist, raises $19M to take on Powerpoint in presentations→

Salesforce acquires Rebel, maker of ‘interactive’ email services, to expand its Marketing Cloud

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Salesforce’s Marketing and Commerce Cloud is the company’s smallest division today, so to help beef it up, the company is making an acquisition to add in more features. Salesforce has acquired Rebel, a startup that develops interactive email services for businesses to enhance their direct marketing services: recipients of interactive emails can write reviews, shop and […] Continue reading Salesforce acquires Rebel, maker of ‘interactive’ email services, to expand its Marketing Cloud→

LinkedIn steps into business intelligence with the launch of Talent Insights

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LinkedIn may be best known as a place where people and organizations keep public pages of their professional profiles, using that as a starting point for networking, recruitment and more — a service that today that has racked up more than 575 million users, 20 million companies and 15 million active job listings. But now […] Continue reading LinkedIn steps into business intelligence with the launch of Talent Insights→

Snyk raises $22M on a $100M valuation to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code

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Open source software is now a $14 billion+ market and growing fast, in use in one way or another in 95 percent of all enterprises. But that expansion comes with a shadow: open source components can come with vulnerabilities, and so their widespread use in apps become a liability to a company’s cybersecurity. Now, a […] Continue reading Snyk raises $22M on a $100M valuation to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code→

Hybrid cloud data specialist Datrium nabs $60M led by Samsung at a $282M valuation

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Cloud services — where our data, apps and computing power are all being managed in servers owned by others, many miles from where we are sitting — have taken off like a rocket in the decade with the rise of smaller devices, but in the business world, hybrid solutions — mixing cloud with on-premise architectures […] Continue reading Hybrid cloud data specialist Datrium nabs $60M led by Samsung at a $282M valuation→

Intel acquires NetSpeed Systems to boost its system-on-a-chip business

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Intel today is announcing another acquisition as it continues to pick up talent and IP to bolster its next generation of computing chips beyond legacy PCs. The company has acquired NetSpeed Systems, a startup that makes system-on-chip (SoC) design tools and interconnect fabric intellectual property (IP). The company will be joining Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group, and […] Continue reading Intel acquires NetSpeed Systems to boost its system-on-a-chip business→

Amazon is quietly doubling down on cryptographic security

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The growth of cloud services — with on-demand access to IT services over the Internet — has become one of the biggest evolutions in enterprise technology, but with it, so has the threat of security breaches and other cybercriminal activity. Now it appears that one of the leading companies in cloud services is looking for […] Continue reading Amazon is quietly doubling down on cryptographic security→

Slack is raising $400M+ with a post-money valuation of $7B or more

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Slack — the app that lets coworkers and others in professional circles chat with each other and call in data from hundreds of integrated apps in the name of getting more work done (or at least procrastinating in an entertaining way) — has been on a growth tear in the last few years, most recently […] Continue reading Slack is raising $400M+ with a post-money valuation of $7B or more→

IQ Capital is raising £125M to invest in deep tech startups in the UK

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The rapid pace of technology innovation and applications in recent decades — you could argue that just about every kind of business is a “tech” business these days — has spawned a sea of tech startups and larger businesses that are focused on serving that market, and equally demanding consumers, on a daily basis. Today, […] Continue reading IQ Capital is raising £125M to invest in deep tech startups in the UK→

Kustomer gets $26M to take on Zendesk with an omnichannel approach to customer support

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The CRM industry is now estimated to be worth some $4 billion annually, and today a startup has announced a round of funding that it hopes will help it take on one aspect of that lucrative pie, customer support. Kustomer, a startup out of New York that integrates a number of sources to give support […] Continue reading Kustomer gets $26M to take on Zendesk with an omnichannel approach to customer support→