Category Archives: exits

Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend

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It would be easy to assume that Verizon’s purchase last week of video-conferencing tool BlueJeans was an opportunistic move to capitalize on the sudden shift to remote work, but the ball began rolling last June and has implications far beyond current work-from-home requirements. The video-chat darling of the moment is Zoom, but BlueJeans is considered […] Continue reading Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend→

Zendesk expands into CRM with Base acquisition

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Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that’s not enough anymore. If you want to truly know the customer behind the interaction, you need a customer system of record to go with the customer service component. To fill that need, Zendesk announced it was acquiring Base, a startup that has […] Continue reading Zendesk expands into CRM with Base acquisition→

Tracking Security Innovation – Business Security Weekly #79

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Tenable hires Morgan Stanley, Sift Science raised $53M Series D, and Virsec raised $24M Series B. This segment is about the companies making news with founding rounds, exits, and other impacts you need to know about in the industry. Tracking Security I… Continue reading Tracking Security Innovation – Business Security Weekly #79→

The enterprise strikes back

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Light saber over NY Stock Exchange. For startups working to sell to large corporations, their investors and their tens of thousands of employees, it’s welcome news.
A confluence of factors may make 2017 fertile ground for tech offerings. The stock market is at record highs, last year’s IPO crop such as it was is outperforming the preceding group, 2017’s own brace of offerings are doing well in the market and… Read More Continue reading The enterprise strikes back→