Author Archives: Ron Miller

Pitch deck teardown: The making of Atlassian’s 2015 roadshow presentation

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In 2015, Atlassian was preparing to go public, but it was not your typical company in so many ways. For starters, it was founded in Australia, it had two co-founder co-CEOs, and it offered collaboration tools centered on software development. That meant that the company leaders really needed to work hard to help investors understand […] Continue reading Pitch deck teardown: The making of Atlassian’s 2015 roadshow presentation→

Salesforce names Vlocity founder David Schmaier CEO of new Salesforce Industries division

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When Salesforce announced it was acquiring Vlocity for $1.33 billion in February, it was a deal that made sense for both companies. Today, the company announced that the deal has closed and Vlocity CEO David Schmaier has been named CEO of a new division called Salesforce Industries. Vlocity has built several industry-specific CRM tools such […] Continue reading Salesforce names Vlocity founder David Schmaier CEO of new Salesforce Industries division→

Equinix is buying 13 data centers from Bell Canada for $750M

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Equinix, the data center company, has the distinction of recently recording its 69th straight positive quarter. One way that it has achieved that kind of revenue consistency is through strategic acquisitions. Today, the company announced that it’s purchasing 13 data centers from Bell Canada for $750 million, greatly expanding its footing in the country. The […] Continue reading Equinix is buying 13 data centers from Bell Canada for $750M→

Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’

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Box CEO Aaron Levie has been working to change the software world for 15 years, but the pandemic has accelerated the move to cloud services much faster than anyone imagined. As he pointed out yesterday in an Extra Crunch Live interview, who would have thought three months ago that businesses like yoga and cooking classes […] Continue reading Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’→

Salesforce stock is taking a hit today after lighter guidance in yesterday’s earning’s report

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In spite of a positive quarter with record revenue that beat analyst estimates, Salesforce stock was taking a hit today because of lighter guidance. Wall Street is a tough audience. The stock was down $8.29/share or 4.58% as of 2:15 pm ET. The guidance, which was a projection for next quarter’s earnings, was lighter than […] Continue reading Salesforce stock is taking a hit today after lighter guidance in yesterday’s earning’s report→

Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes

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When Cisco bought AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion just before the IPO, the company sent a clear signal it wanted to move beyond its pure network hardware roots into the software monitoring side of the equation. Yesterday afternoon the company announced it intends to buy another monitoring company, this time snagging internet monitoring solution […] Continue reading Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes→

Wasabi announces $30M Series B as cloud storage business continues to grow

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We may be in the thick of a pandemic with all of the economic fallout that comes from that, but certain aspects of technology don’t change no matter the external factors. Storage is one of them. In fact, we are generating more digital stuff than ever, and Wasabi, a Boston-based startup that has figured out […] Continue reading Wasabi announces $30M Series B as cloud storage business continues to grow→

Docker expands relationship with Microsoft to ease developer experience across platforms

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When Docker sold off its enterprise division to Mirantis last fall, that didn’t mark the end of the company. In fact, Docker still exists and has refocused as a cloud-native developer tools vendor. Today it announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft around simplifying running Docker containers in Azure. As its new mission suggests, it involves […] Continue reading Docker expands relationship with Microsoft to ease developer experience across platforms→

Toro snags $4M seed investment to monitor data quality

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Toro’s founders started at Uber helping monitor the data quality in the company’s vast data catalogs, and they wanted to put that experience to work for a more general audience. Today, the company announced a $4 million seed round. The round was co-led by Costanoa Ventures and Point72 Ventures with help from a number of […] Continue reading Toro snags $4M seed investment to monitor data quality→

Census raises $4.3M seed to put product info in cloud data warehouses to work

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Companies spend inordinate amounts of time and money building data warehouses and moving data from enterprise applications. But once they get the data in, how do they get specific information like product data back out and distribute it to business operations, who can use it to better understand customers? That’s where Census comes in. It […] Continue reading Census raises $4.3M seed to put product info in cloud data warehouses to work→