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There was a time when brick-and-mortar mom and pops framed their first $1 on the wall, but in the SaaS startup the equivalent milestone is $1 billion revenue run-rate. Salesforce is the SaaS revenue king reporting $4 billion in revenue for its most recent quarterly report, and there are many other relatively new SaaS companies, […] Continue reading Hear how to build a billion-dollar SaaS company at TechCrunch Disrupt
Sumo Logic, a cloud data analytics and log analysis company, announced a $110 million Series G investment today. The company indicated that its valuation was “north of a billion dollars,” but wouldn’t give an exact figure. Today’s round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from new investors Tiger Global Management and Franklin Templeton. Other […] Continue reading Sumo Logic announces $110M Series G investment on valuation over $1B
With traditional CRM tools, sales people add basic details about the companies to the database, then a few notes about their interactions. AI has helped automate some of that, but Gong.io wants to take it even further using voice recognition to capture every word of every interaction. Today, it got a $40M Series B investment. […] Continue reading Gong.io nabs $40M investment to enhance CRM with voice recognition
Workato, a startup that offers an integration and automation platform for businesses that competes with the likes of MuleSoft, SnapLogic and Microsoft’s Logic Apps, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B funding round from Battery Ventures, Storm Ventures, ServiceNow and Workday Ventures. Combined with its previous rounds, the company has now received investments […] Continue reading Workato raises $25M for its integration platform
The race to crown a winner in the AI-powered recruiting software space is on. With both Workey and Mya nabbing rounds in the last few weeks, the timing is prime for a few players to seek advantage in the form of growth capital. This seems to be exactly what Entelo, a six year old player in the space, is doing. The company is announcing a $20 million Series C round of financing today led by U.S. Read More Continue reading Entelo steps up its AI game with $20M Series C
Conversational AI is pushing deeper into enterprise with Workfit, a new startup promising to make conference call follow-ups and mid-meeting CRM updates as easy as playing a song or checking the weather on Google Home or Amazon Echo. Battery Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Salesforce Ventures and a number of angels joined together to finance a $5.5 million seed investment in the… Read More Continue reading Workfit raises $5.5 million seed round to be your AI meeting assistant
Applications management company AppDynamics was just wrapping up the final touches on its initial public offering when they learned that Cisco was interested in discussing a potential deal, after preliminary talks were abandoned in November. The discussion picked up again last week, and the IPO was slated to price tomorrow. Although many companies seek acquisition offers in the months leading… Read More Continue reading Why the $3.7 billion AppDynamics acquisition happened right before IPO
Battery Ventures led a $22 million, Series B investment in Narvar Inc., a company helping internet retailers keep their customers happy post-purchase, meaning until their packages are delivered, and if need be, successfully returned for an exchange or refund. Battery was joined by Fung Capital, a logistics-focused fund, and Narvar’s earlier backers Accel Partners and Freestyle Capital.… Read More Continue reading Narvar raises $22 million to help internet retailers deliver physical goods without frustrating customers
Amplitude announced this morning that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding.
In the past, the web and mobile analytics company has pitched itself as a more affordable alternative to Mixpanel. More recently, CEO Spenser Skates said the bigger vision is to make user data available to everyone in a company, not just data scientists.
“It’s so easy to look up any piece of… Read More Continue reading Analytics startup Amplitude raises $15M