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While Salesforce and Microsoft have a dominant position in the world of sales software today, there are a number of startups nipping at their heels, and today one of the more promising of them has announced a growth round to help them in the effort. Pipedrive, a startup co-headquartered in Estonia and New York that […] Continue reading Pipedrive, a CRM and sales tool, raises $50M to take on Salesforce and Microsoft
Workday, the cloud-based platform that offers HR and other back-office apps for businesses, is making an acquisition to expand its portfolio of services: It’s buying Adaptive Insights, a provider of cloud-based business planning and financial modelling tools, for $1.55 billion. The acquisition is notable because Adaptive Insights had filed for an IPO as recently as […] Continue reading Workday acquires financial modelling startup Adaptive Insights for $1.55B
Square, the company that provides payments and other business services to merchants, is today taking another step in its gradual expansion outside of the U.S. Stand — one of Square’s key pieces of hardware, turning an iPad into a point of sale system — is launching in the U.K. It will sell for £64 (+VAT) […] Continue reading Square brings its Stand for iPad tablets to the UK
Sometimes I think of spreadsheets as the dirty secret of the IT world today. We’ve seen a huge explosion in the number of productivity tools on the market tailored to help workers with different aspects of doing their job and organising their information, in part to keep them from simply dumping lots of information into […] Continue reading Dashdash, a platform to create web apps using only spreadsheet skills, nabs $8M led by Accel
Just days after Google announced that it would acquire Velostrata to help customers migrating more of their operations into cloud environments, HPE under its new CEO Antonio Neri is also upping its game in the same department. Today the company announced that it would acquire Plexxi, a specialist in software-defined data center solutions, aimed at […] Continue reading HPE buys Plexxi to expand its hybrid cloud solutions
Intel Capital, the investment arm of the computer processor giant, is today announcing $72 million in funding for the 12 newest startups to enter its portfolio, bringing the total invested so far this year to $115 million. Announced at the company’s global summit currently underway in southern California, investments in this latest tranche cover artificial […] Continue reading Intel Capital pumps $72M into AI, IoT, cloud and silicon startups, $115M invested so far in 2018
Workplace, the more secure, closed enterprise version of Facebook that competes against the likes of Slack, Microsoft Teams and Hipchat as a platform for employees to communicate and work on things together, says that it today has tens of thousands of organisations using its platform. Now to pick up more, and to bring more of […] Continue reading Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise version, now has 52 SaaS apps and bots, opens up for more integrations
Enterprise tech IPOs continue to roar in 2018. Today, not one but two enterprise tech companies, DocuSign and Smartsheet, saw their share prices pop as they made their debuts on to the public markets. As of 1:33 New York time, DocuSign is trading higher at $39.77, up 37 percent from its IPO price and giving […] Continue reading DocuSign pops 30% and Smartsheet 23% in their debuts on Nasdaq and NYSE
Artificial intelligence and the application of it across nearly every aspect of our lives is shaping up to be one of the major step changes of our modern society. Today, a startup that wants to help other companies capitalise on AI’s advances is announcing funding and emerging from stealth mode. Allegro.AI, which has built a […] Continue reading Allegro.AI nabs $11M for a platform that helps businesses build computer vision-based services
Cybersecurity continues to be a growing focus and problem in the digital world, and now Stripe is launching a new paid product that it hopes will help its customers better battle one of the bigger side-effects of data breaches: online payment fraud. Today, Stripe is announcing Radar for Fraud Teams, an expansion of its free […] Continue reading Stripe debuts Radar anti-fraud AI tools for big businesses, says it has halted $4B in fraud to date