Author Archives: Ron Miller

Stacklet launches cloud governance platform with $4.4M seed investment

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Stacklet co-founders Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu met while both were working at Capital One several years ago. Thangavelu helped create the Cloud Custodian open source cloud governance project. The two eventually got together and decided to build a startup based on that project and today the company launched out of stealth with a $4.4 […] Continue reading Stacklet launches cloud governance platform with $4.4M seed investment→

Gong raises another $200M on $2.2B valuation

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For the third time since last February, Gong has raised a significant sum. In February, the company scored $40 million. In December, it grabbed another $65 million, and today it was $200 million on a $2.2 billion valuation. That’s a total of $305 million in less than 18 months. Coatue led today’s cash infusion with […] Continue reading Gong raises another $200M on $2.2B valuation→

Emergence’s Jason Green still sees plenty of opportunities for enterprise SaaS startups

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Jason Green, co-founder and partner at Emergence, has made some solid enterprise SaaS bets over the years, long before it was fashionable to do so. He invested early in companies like Box, ServiceMax, Yammer, SteelBrick and SuccessFactors. Just those companies alone would be a pretty good track record, but his firm also invested in Salesforce, […] Continue reading Emergence’s Jason Green still sees plenty of opportunities for enterprise SaaS startups→

Parsable scores $60M Series D as pandemic forces faster digitization of industrial sector

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It seems the pandemic has forced the business world to digitize faster, and the industrial sector is no different. Parsable, a San Francisco startup that is helping digitize industrial front line workers, announced a $60 million Series D today. Activate Capital and Glade Brook Capital Partners co-led the round. They got help from new investors […] Continue reading Parsable scores $60M Series D as pandemic forces faster digitization of industrial sector→

Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital

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When Wendell Brooks was promoted to president of Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chip giant in 2014, he knew he had big shoes to fill. He was taking over from Arvind Sodhani, who had run the investment component for 28 years since its inception. Today, the company confirmed reports that he has resigned […] Continue reading Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital→

Crossbeam announces $25M Series B to keep growing partnerships platform

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As sales teams partner with other companies, they go through a process called account mapping to find common customers and prospects. This is usually a highly manual activity tracked in spreadsheets. Crossbeam, a Philadelphia startup, has come up with a way to automate partnership data integration. Today the company announced a $25 million Series B […] Continue reading Crossbeam announces $25M Series B to keep growing partnerships platform→

PandaDoc announces second Series B extension worth $30M

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PandaDoc, the startup that provides a fully digital sales document workflow from proposal to electronic signature to collecting payment, announced a $30 million Series B extension today, making it the the second such extension the company has taken since taking its original $15 million Series B in 2017. The total for the three B investments […] Continue reading PandaDoc announces second Series B extension worth $30M→

Kubermatic launches open source service hub to enable complex service management

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As Kubernetes and cloud native technologies proliferate, developers and IT have found a growing set of technical challenges they need to address, and new concepts and projects have popped up to deal with them. For instance, operators provide a way to package, deploy and manage your cloud native application in an automated way. Kubermatic wants […] Continue reading Kubermatic launches open source service hub to enable complex service management→

Harness makes first acquisition, snagging open source CI company Drone.io

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Harness has made a name for itself creating tools like continuous delivery (CD) for software engineers to give them the kind of power that has been traditionally reserved for companies with large engineering teams like Google, Facebook and Netflix. Today, the company announced it has acquired Drone.io, an open source continuous integration (CI) company, marking […] Continue reading Harness makes first acquisition, snagging open source CI company Drone.io→

Amid pandemic, returning to offices remains an open question for tech leaders

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As COVID-19 infections surge in parts of the U.S., many workplaces remain empty or are operating with skeleton crews. Most agree that the decision to return to the office should involve a combination of business, government and medical officials and scientists who have a deep understanding of COVID-19 and infectious disease in general. The exact […] Continue reading Amid pandemic, returning to offices remains an open question for tech leaders→