Author Archives: Ron Miller

Operator Collective brings diversity and inclusion to enterprise investing

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When Mallun Yen started Operator Collective last year, she wanted to build an investment firm for people who didn’t have a voice in Silicon Valley. That meant connecting women and people of color with operators who have been intimately involved in building companies from the ground up, then providing early-stage investment. She then brought in […] Continue reading Operator Collective brings diversity and inclusion to enterprise investing→

LogDNA announces $25M Series C investment and new CEO

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LogDNA, a startup that helps DevOps teams dig through their log data to find issues, announced a $25 million Series C investment today along with the promotion of industry vet Tucker Callaway to CEO. Let’s start with the funding. Emergence Capital led the round with participation from previous investors Initialized Capital and Providence Equity. New […] Continue reading LogDNA announces $25M Series C investment and new CEO→

Slack snags corporate directory startup Rimeto to up its people search game

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For the second time in less than 24 hours, an enterprise company bought an early stage startup. Yesterday afternoon DocuSign acquired Liveoak, and this morning Slack announced it was buying corporate directory startup Rimeto, which should help employees find people inside the organization who match a specific set of criteria from inside Slack. The companies […] Continue reading Slack snags corporate directory startup Rimeto to up its people search game→

SetSail raises raises $7M to change how sales teams are compensated

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Most sales teams earn a commission after a sale closes, but nothing prior to that. Yet there are a variety of signals along the way that indicate the sales process is progressing, and SetSail, a startup from some former Google engineers, is using machine learning to figure out what those signals are, and how to […] Continue reading SetSail raises raises $7M to change how sales teams are compensated→

DocuSign acquires Liveoak Technologies for $38M for online notarization

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Even in the best of times, finding a notary can be a challenge. In the middle of a pandemic, it’s even more difficult. DocuSign announced it has acquired Liveoak Technologies today for approximately $38 million, giving the company an online notarization option. At the same time, DocuSign announced a new product called DocuSign Notary, which […] Continue reading DocuSign acquires Liveoak Technologies for $38M for online notarization→

Zoom announces new Hardware as a Service offering to run on ServiceNow

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Zoom announced a new Hardware as a Service offering today that will run on the ServiceNow platform. At the same time the company announced a deal with ServiceNow to standardize on Zoom and Zoom Phone for its 11,000 employees in another case of SaaS cooperation. For starters, the new Hardware as a Service offering allows […] Continue reading Zoom announces new Hardware as a Service offering to run on ServiceNow→

OwnBackup lands $50M as backup for Salesforce ecosystem thrives

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OwnBackup has made a name for itself primarily as a backup and disaster recovery system for the Salesforce ecosystem, and today the company announced a $50 million investment. Insight Partners led the round with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Vertex Ventures. This chunk of money comes on top of a $23 million round from a […] Continue reading OwnBackup lands $50M as backup for Salesforce ecosystem thrives→

QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database

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QuestDB, a member of the Y Combinator summer 2020 cohort, is building an open source time series database with speed top of mind. Today the startup announced a $2.3 million seed round. Episode1 Ventures led the round with assistance from Seedcamp, 7percent Ventures, YCombinator, Kima Ventures and several unnamed angel investors. The database was originally […] Continue reading QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database→

Fauna raises an additional $27M to turn databases into a simple API call

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Databases have always been a complex part of the equation for developers requiring a delicate balance to manage inside the application, but Fauna wants to make adding a database a simple API call, and today it announced $27 million in new funding. The round, which is technically an extension of the company’s 2017 Series A, […] Continue reading Fauna raises an additional $27M to turn databases into a simple API call→