Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

Pathlight, a performance management tool for customer-facing teams and the individuals in them, raises $25M

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The longer we continue to work with either all or part of our teams in remote, out-of-physical-office environments, the more imperative it becomes for those teams to have some tools in place to keep the channels of communication and management open, and for the individuals in those teams to have a sense of how well […] Continue reading Pathlight, a performance management tool for customer-facing teams and the individuals in them, raises $25M→

Blue dot raises $32M for AI that helps businesses manage their tax accounting

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Artificial intelligence has become a fundamental cornerstone of how a lot of business software works, providing a useful boost in reading, understanding, and using the often-fragmented trove of data that organizations generate these days. In the latest development, an Israeli startup called Blue dot, which uses AI to help companies handle their tax accounting, is […] Continue reading Blue dot raises $32M for AI that helps businesses manage their tax accounting→

Berlin’s Bryter raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US

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No-code startups continue to see a lot of traction among enterprises, where employees — strictly speaking, non-technical, but still using software every day — are getting hands-on and building apps to take on some of the more repetitive aspects of their jobs, the so-called “citizen coders” of the working world. And in one of the […] Continue reading Berlin’s Bryter raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US→

OneStream raises $200M, now valued at $6B after its enterprise-focused financial software sees a surge of use

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Digital transformation is the name of the game these days, and companies that are enabling businesses to take a leap into the future, by helping them tackle their most complex operations, are reaping the rewards. In the latest development, OneStream, a startup that provides a toolkit of services to enterprises to help them run financial […] Continue reading OneStream raises $200M, now valued at $6B after its enterprise-focused financial software sees a surge of use→

Sendbird raises $100M at a $1B+ valuation, says 150M+ users now interact using its chat and video APIs

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Messaging is the medium these days, and today a startup that has built an API to help others build text and video interactivity into their services is announcing a big round to continue scaling its business. Sendbird, a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery […] Continue reading Sendbird raises $100M at a $1B+ valuation, says 150M+ users now interact using its chat and video APIs→

6sense raises $125M at a $2.1B valuation for its ‘ID graph’, an AI-based predictive sales and marketing platform

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AI has become a fundamental cornerstone of how tech companies are building tools for salespeople: they are useful for supercharging (and complementing) the abilities of talented humans, or helping them keep themselves significantly more organised; even if in some cases — as with chatbots — they are replacing them altogether. In the latest development, 6sense, […] Continue reading 6sense raises $125M at a $2.1B valuation for its ‘ID graph’, an AI-based predictive sales and marketing platform→

HYCU raises $87.5M to take on Rubrik and the rest in multi-cloud data backup and recovery

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As more companies become ever more reliant on digital infrastructure for everyday work, the more they become major targets for malicious hackers — both trends accelerated by the pandemic — and that is leading to an ever-greater need for IT and security departments to find ways of protecting data should it become compromised. Today, one […] Continue reading HYCU raises $87.5M to take on Rubrik and the rest in multi-cloud data backup and recovery→

Feedzai raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation for AI tools to fight financial fraud

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On the heels of Jumio announcing a $150 million injection this week to continue building out its AI-based ID verification and anti-money laundering platform, another startup in the space is levelling up. Feedzai, which provides banks, others in the financial sector, and any company managing payments online with AI tools to spot and fight fraud […] Continue reading Feedzai raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation for AI tools to fight financial fraud→

Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data

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Significant funding news today for one of the startups making a business out of tapping huge, noisy troves of publicly available data across social media, news sites, undisclosed filings and more. Dataminr, which ingests information from a mix of 100,000 public data sources, and then based on that provides customers real-time insights into ongoing events […] Continue reading Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data→

Jumio raises $150M as its all-in-one ID authentication platform crosses 300M verified identities

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Digital identity services — used as a key link between organizations to verify that you are who you say you are online and individuals logging into those services — have come into their own in this past year. Now, one of the companies providing digital identity products is announcing a large round of funding, underscoring […] Continue reading Jumio raises $150M as its all-in-one ID authentication platform crosses 300M verified identities→