Author Archives: Ron Miller

Tray.io hauls in $37 million Series B to keep expanding enterprise automation tool

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Tray.io, the startup that wants to put automated workflows within reach of line of business users, announced a $37 million Series B investment today. Spark Capital led the round with help from Meritech Capital, along with existing investors GGV Capital, True Ventures and Mosaic Ventures. Under the terms of the deal Spark’s Alex Clayton will […] Continue reading Tray.io hauls in $37 million Series B to keep expanding enterprise automation tool→

AWS expands cloud infrastructure offerings with new AMD EPYC-powered T3a instances

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Amazon is always looking for ways to increase the options it offers developers in AWS, and to that end, today it announced a bunch of new AMD EPYC-powered T3a instances. These were originally announced at the end of last year at re:Invent, AWS’s annual customer conference. Today’s announcement is about making these chips generally available. […] Continue reading AWS expands cloud infrastructure offerings with new AMD EPYC-powered T3a instances→

Slack to extend collaboration to folks who don’t want to give up email

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As Slack gathered with its growing customer base this week at the Frontiers Conference in San Francisco, it announced several enhancements to the product, including extending collaboration to folks who want to stick with email instead of hanging with their co-workers in Slack . Some habits are tough to break, and using email as your […] Continue reading Slack to extend collaboration to folks who don’t want to give up email→

Oracle turns to innovation hubs to drive cultural and business shift to cloud

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Oracle was founded in 1977. While it’s not exactly IBM or GE, which date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries respectively, it is old enough to be experiencing a fair bit of disruption in its own right. For a good part of its existence, it sold databases to some of the biggest […] Continue reading Oracle turns to innovation hubs to drive cultural and business shift to cloud→

Blueshift announces $15M Series B to expand AI-fueled cross-channel marketing tool

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Blueshift is startup founded by tech industry veterans, who saw first-hand how difficult cross-channel marketing was. They decided to launch a company and build a cross-channel marketing platform from the ground up that uses AI and machine learning to make sense of the growing amount of customer data. Today, the startup announced a $15 million […] Continue reading Blueshift announces $15M Series B to expand AI-fueled cross-channel marketing tool→

Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation

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Series B rounds used to be about establishing a product-market fit, but for some startups the whole process seems to be accelerating. Harness, the startup founded by AppDynamics co-founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal is one of those companies that is putting the pedal the metal with his second startup, taking his learnings and a $60 […] Continue reading Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation→

Microsoft delves deeper into IoT with Express Logic acquisition

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Microsoft has never been shy about being acquisitive, and today it announced it’s buying Express Logic, a San Diego company that has developed a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at controlling the growing number of IoT devices in the world. The companies did not share the purchase price. Express Logic is not some wide-eyed, pie-in-the-sky […] Continue reading Microsoft delves deeper into IoT with Express Logic acquisition→

Salesforce is buying MapAnything, a startup that raised over $84 million

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Salesforce announced today it’s buying another company built on its platform. This time it’s MapAnything, which as the name implies, helps companies build location-based workflows, something that could come in handy for sales or service calls. The companies did not reveal the selling price, and Salesforce didn’t have anything to add beyond a brief press […] Continue reading Salesforce is buying MapAnything, a startup that raised over $84 million→

Airbase launches with $7M Series A to simplify spending control systems

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Airbase is a startup with a plan to change the way you think about accounting around spending. Instead of multiple workflows, it wants to create a simpler one involving, well, Airbase. It’s a bold move for any startup to take on something as entrenched as financials, but it’s giving it a shot, and today the […] Continue reading Airbase launches with $7M Series A to simplify spending control systems→

Why it just might make sense that Salesforce.com is buying Salesforce.org

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Yesterday, Salesforce .com announced its intent to buy its own educational/non-profit arm, Salesforce.org for $300 million. On its face, this feels like a confusing turn of events, but industry experts say it’s really about aligning educational and non-profit verticals across the entire organization. Salesforce has always made a lot of hay about being a responsible […] Continue reading Why it just might make sense that Salesforce.com is buying Salesforce.org→