Author Archives: Ron Miller

Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses

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Armory, a startup that has built a CI/CD platform on top the open source Spinnaker project, announced a $10 million Series A today led by Crosslink Capital. Other investors included Bain Capital Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, YCombinator and Robin Vasan. Software development certainly has changed over the last several years, going from long cycles between […] Continue reading Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses→

ServiceNow-Box integration brings together two enterprise cloud stalwarts

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It used to be a one-vendor, stack-driven world in the enterprise. Today, the cloud has changed that and best of breed and interoperability are the watchwords of the day. Two enterprise cloud stalwarts have announced a new integration that brings Box content directly into ServiceNow. For ServiceNow customers, it means that they can access Box […] Continue reading ServiceNow-Box integration brings together two enterprise cloud stalwarts→

Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay

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It was quite a week for Slack, wasn’t it? The enterprise communications platform confirmed this publication’s earlier report that it had scored another $427 million investment on an over-the-moon valuation of over $7 billion. Slack took a market that had once been in the doldrums and turned it into something significant by making itself more than […] Continue reading Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay→

Evernote refines integrations with Slack and Salesforce

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When you’re working in a key business tool like Slack or Salesforce, you don’t want to switch focus by opening up another application to pull additional information. Evernote Business has let you access Evernote content from these applications for some time, and today it announced some refinements to enhance those integrations. The Slack integration had […] Continue reading Evernote refines integrations with Slack and Salesforce→

Talla builds a smarter customer knowledge base

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Talla is taking aim at the customer service industry with its latest release, an AI-infused knowledge base. Today, the company released version 2.0 of the Talla Intelligent Knowledge Base. The company also announced that Paula Long, most recently CEO at Data Gravity, has joined the company as SVP of engineering. This tool combines customer content […] Continue reading Talla builds a smarter customer knowledge base→

Foundries.io promises standardized open source IoT device security

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IoT devices currently lack a standard way of applying security. It leaves consumers, whether business or individuals, left to wonder if their devices are secure and up-to-date. Foundries.io, a company that launched today, wants to change that by offering a standard way to secure devices and deliver updates over the air. “Our mission is solving […] Continue reading Foundries.io promises standardized open source IoT device security→

Semmle, startup that makes code searchable, hauls in $21M Series B

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Semmle, a startup that originally spun out of research at Oxford, announced a $21 million Series B investment today led by Accel Partners. It marked the second time Accel has led an investment in the company. Other investors include Work-Bench, Capital One, Credit Suisse, Google, Microsoft, NASA and Nasdaq Trust. Today’s investment brings the total […] Continue reading Semmle, startup that makes code searchable, hauls in $21M Series B→

Klarity uses AI to strip drudgery from contract review

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Klarity, a member of the Y Combiner 2018 Summer class, wants to automate much of the contract review process by applying artificial intelligence, specifically natural language processing. Company co-founder and CEO Andrew Antos has experienced the pain of contract reviews first hand. After graduating from Harvard Law, he landed a job spending 16 hours a […] Continue reading Klarity uses AI to strip drudgery from contract review→

Work-Bench enterprise report predicts end of SaaS could be coming

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Work-Bench, a New York City venture capital firm that spends a lot of time around Fortune 1000 companies, has put together The Work-Bench Enterprise Almanac: 2018 Edition, which you could think of as a State of the Enterprise report. It’s somewhat like Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report, but with a focus on the tools and […] Continue reading Work-Bench enterprise report predicts end of SaaS could be coming→

Cisco’s $2.35 billion Duo acquisition front and center at earnings call

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When Cisco bought Ann Arbor, Michigan security company, Duo for a whopping $2.35 billion earlier this month, it showed the growing value of security and security startups in the view of traditional tech companies like Cisco. In yesterday’s earnings report, even before the ink had dried on the Duo acquisition contract, Cisco was reporting that its […] Continue reading Cisco’s $2.35 billion Duo acquisition front and center at earnings call→