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Armory nabs $40M Series C as commercial biz on top of open source Spinnaker project takes off

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Ron Miller

As companies continue to shift more quickly to the cloud, pushed by the pandemic, startups like Armory that work in the cloud native space are seeing an uptick in interest. Armory is a company built to be commercial layer on top of the open source continuous delivery project Spinnaker. Today, it announced a $40 million […] Continue reading Armory nabs $40M Series C as commercial biz on top of open source Spinnaker project takes off→

Twilio’s $3.2B Segment acquisition is about helping developers build data-fueled apps

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Ron Miller

The pandemic has forced businesses to change the way they interact with customers. Whether it’s how they deliver goods and services, or how they communicate, there is one common denominator, and that’s that everything is being forced to be digitally driven much faster. To some extent, that’s what drove Twilio to acquire Segment for $3.2 […] Continue reading Twilio’s $3.2B Segment acquisition is about helping developers build data-fueled apps→

Twilio is buying customer data startup Segment for between $3B and $4B

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Ron Miller

Sources have told TechCrunch that Twilio intends to acquire customer data startup Segment for between $3 and $4 billion. Forbes broke the story on Friday night, reporting a price tag of $3.2 billion. We have heard from a couple of industry sources that the deal is in the works and could be announced as early […] Continue reading Twilio is buying customer data startup Segment for between $3B and $4B→

How Roblox completely transformed its tech stack

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Ron Miller

Picture yourself in the role of CIO at Roblox in 2017. At that point, the gaming platform and publishing system that launched in 2005 was growing fast, but its underlying technology was aging, consisting of a single data center in Chicago and a bunch of third-party partners, including AWS, all running bare metal (nonvirtualized) servers. […] Continue reading How Roblox completely transformed its tech stack→

YC grad DigitalBrain snags $3.4M seed to streamline customer service tasks

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Ron Miller

Most startup founders have a tough road to their first round of funding, but the founders of Digital Brain had it a bit tougher than most. The two young founders survived by entering and winning hackathons to pay their rent and put on food on the table. One of the ideas they came up with […] Continue reading YC grad DigitalBrain snags $3.4M seed to streamline customer service tasks→

Slack introduces new features to ease messaging between business partners

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Ron Miller

Slack is holding its Frontiers conference this week — virtually like everyone else in 2020 — and it’s introducing some new features to make it easier to message between partners. At the same time, it’s talking about some experimental features that could appear in the platform at some point (or not). Let’s start with some […] Continue reading Slack introduces new features to ease messaging between business partners→

Okta adds new no-code workflows that use identity to trigger sales and marketing tasks

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Ron Miller

It seems that no-code is the tech watchword of the year. It refers to the ability to create something that normally would require a developer to code, and replace it with dragging and dropping components instead, putting the task in reach of much less technical business users. Today Okta announced new no-code workflows that provide […] Continue reading Okta adds new no-code workflows that use identity to trigger sales and marketing tasks→

Salesforce Ventures launches $100M Impact Fund to invest in cloud startups with social mission

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Ron Miller

When Salesforce Ventures launched the first $50 million Impact Fund in 2017, it wanted to invest not only in promising cloud businesses, but startups with a socially positive mission. Today, the company launched the second Impact Fund, this time doubling its initial investment with a new $100 million fund The latest fund is also designed […] Continue reading Salesforce Ventures launches $100M Impact Fund to invest in cloud startups with social mission→

Scratchpad announces $3.6M seed to put work space on top of Salesforce

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Ron Miller

One thing that annoys sales people is entering data into a CRM like Salesforce because it’s time spent not selling. Part of the problem is Salesforce is a database and as such is not necessarily designed for speed. Scratchpad wants to simplify that process by creating a workspace on top of the CRM to accelerate […] Continue reading Scratchpad announces $3.6M seed to put work space on top of Salesforce→