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Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Online job listings were one of the first things to catch on in the first generation of the internet. But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to […] Continue reading Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’→

Novo, a neobank for SMBs, banks $41M

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Small businesses have traditionally been underserved when it comes to IT — they are too big and have too many requirements that can’t be met by consumer products, yet are much too small to afford, implement or thoroughly need apps and other IT build for larger enterprises. But when it comes to neobanks, it feels […] Continue reading Novo, a neobank for SMBs, banks $41M→

Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries

Posted on June 10, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

On the heels of acquiring sales tax specialist TaxJar in April, today Stripe is making another big move in the area of tax. The $95 billion payments behemoth is launching a new product called Stripe Tax, which will provide automatic, updated sales tax calculations (covering sales tax, VAT, and GST) and related accounting services to […] Continue reading Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries→

ChartHop raises $35M for its internal org chart and people analytics platform

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Human resources is generally a salient cornerstone of any organization, but digitization has democratized a lot of the work that goes into HR, and that’s meant more people in businesses interested in, and using, the kind of data that HR people build and typically manage. Today, a startup called ChartHop that’s built a platform to […] Continue reading ChartHop raises $35M for its internal org chart and people analytics platform→

Carlyle acquires 1E.com, an endpoint and hybrid working specialist, in $270M deal

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Remote work was the order of the day for the past 16 months, but as we (fingers crossed) move out of the pandemic, it’s looking like a lot of people may move into a new era of hybrid work: less focus being present in offices to feel like you are getting things done, less time […] Continue reading Carlyle acquires 1E.com, an endpoint and hybrid working specialist, in $270M deal→

Sinch snaps up MessageMedia for $1.3B to compete with Twilio in business SMS services

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Sinch — the Swedish company that provides a suite of services for companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” into their services by way of APIs — has made yet another acquisition in its global march to scale up its business and compete more squarely with Twilio. The company today announced that it has […] Continue reading Sinch snaps up MessageMedia for $1.3B to compete with Twilio in business SMS services→

Whatfix nabs $90M to help workers onboard and get the most out of their IT stacks

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

“Digital transformation” has been on the mind of many an organization in the last year: the pandemic and the shift it’s brought to how we work are speeding up investments in new apps, infrastructure and work practices to improve productivity regardless of where we sit all day. Now, it looks like we’re on to the […] Continue reading Whatfix nabs $90M to help workers onboard and get the most out of their IT stacks→

Cognigy raises $44M to scale its enterprise-focused conversational AI platform

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly common part of how customer service works — a trend that was accelerated in this past year as so many other services went virtual and digital — and today a startup that has built a set of low-code tools to help enterprises integrate more AI into their customer service […] Continue reading Cognigy raises $44M to scale its enterprise-focused conversational AI platform→

Zoom fatigue no more: Rewatch raises $20M to index, transcribe and store enterprise video content

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

We don’t hear as much these days about “Zoom fatigue” as we did in the first months after the Covid-19 pandemic kicked off last year, but what’s less clear is whether people became more tolerant to the medium, or if they’d found ways of coping with it better, or if they were hopeful that tools […] Continue reading Zoom fatigue no more: Rewatch raises $20M to index, transcribe and store enterprise video content→