Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

Asana introduces Timeline, lays groundwork for AI-based monitoring as the “team brain” for productivity

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When workflow management platform Asana announced a $75 million round of funding in January led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management, the startup didn’t give much of an indication of what it planned to do with the money, or what it was that won over investors to a new $900 million valuation […] Continue reading Asana introduces Timeline, lays groundwork for AI-based monitoring as the “team brain” for productivity→

GoDaddy to move most of its infrastructure to AWS, not including domain management for its 75M domains

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It really is Go Time for GoDaddy . Amazon’s cloud services provider AWS and GoDaddy, the domain registration and management giant, may have competed in the past when it comes to working with small businesses to provide them with web services, but today the two took a step closer together. AWS said that GoDaddy is […] Continue reading GoDaddy to move most of its infrastructure to AWS, not including domain management for its 75M domains→

Clari raises $35M for its AI-based sales platform, expands into marketing and supply chain management

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Clari — a startup that has built a predictive sales tool that provides just-in-time assistance for sales people close deals and for those who work in the bigger chain of command to monitor the progress of the sales operation — is capitalising on the big boom in interest for all things AI in the business world. […] Continue reading Clari raises $35M for its AI-based sales platform, expands into marketing and supply chain management→

Cloud security startup Zscaler opens at $27.50, a pop of 72% on Nasdaq, raising $192M in its IPO

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The first big tech IPO of the year has opened with a bang. Zscaler, a security startup that confidentially filed for an IPO last year, started trading this morning as ZS on Nasdaq at a price of $27.50/share. This was a pop of 71.9  percent on its opening price of $16, and speaks to a […] Continue reading Cloud security startup Zscaler opens at $27.50, a pop of 72% on Nasdaq, raising $192M in its IPO→

Hootsuite nabs $50M in growth capital for its social media management platform, passes 16M customers

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Over the last several years, social media has become a critical and central way for businesses to communicate, and market to, their customers. Now, one of the startups that helped spearhead this trend has raised a round of growth funding to expand its horizons. Hootsuite, the Vacouver-based social media management company that counts some 16 […] Continue reading Hootsuite nabs $50M in growth capital for its social media management platform, passes 16M customers→

WeWork expands its Flatiron School education business to London with £1M in scholarships

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WeWork — the co-working startup valued at $20 billion with some 200,000 members across 200 locations globally — is continuing with its strategy of expanding into a wide array of adjacent operations to grow its business. Today the company an… Continue reading WeWork expands its Flatiron School education business to London with £1M in scholarships→

WeWork expands its Flatiron School education business to London with £1M in scholarships

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 WeWork — the co-working startup valued at $20 billion with some 200,000 members across 200 locations globally — is continuing with its strategy of expanding into a wide array of adjacent operations to grow its business. Today the comp… Continue reading WeWork expands its Flatiron School education business to London with £1M in scholarships→

Dropbox sets IPO range $16-18, valuing it below $10B, as Salesforce ponies up $100M

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 After announcing an IPO in February, today Dropbox updated its S-1 filing with pricing. The cloud services and storage company said that it expects to price its IPO at between $16 and $18 per share when it sells 36,000,000 shares to raise $648 mi… Continue reading Dropbox sets IPO range $16-18, valuing it below $10B, as Salesforce ponies up $100M→

Dropbox sets IPO range $16-18, valuing it below $10B, as Salesforce ponies up $100M

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After announcing an IPO in February, today Dropbox updated its S-1 filing with pricing. The cloud services and storage company said that it expects to price its IPO at between $16 and $18 per share when it sells 36,000,000 shares to raise $648 million … Continue reading Dropbox sets IPO range $16-18, valuing it below $10B, as Salesforce ponies up $100M→

Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack

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Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is finally taking the wraps off the new venture: Begin, an intelligent app designed to hel… Continue reading Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack→