Category Archives: salesforce.com

Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations

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Merge, a startup that helps its users build customer-facing integrations with third-party tools, today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by NEA. Additional angel investors include former MuleSoft CEO Greg Schott, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Expanse co-founders Tim Junio and Matt Kraning, and Jumpstart CEO Ben Herman. Launched in 2020, […] Continue reading Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations→

As private investment cools, enterprise startups may try tapping corporate dollars

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Founders hunting down capital in the middle of this pandemic may feel like they’re on a fool’s errand, but some investors are still offering financing, even if the terms might not be as good as they once were. One avenue that appears to remain open: corporate venture capital. The corporate route offers its own set […] Continue reading As private investment cools, enterprise startups may try tapping corporate dollars→

Autify raises $2.5M seed round for its no-code software testing platform

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Autify, a platform that makes testing web application as easy as clicking a few buttons, has raised a $2.5 million seed round from Global Brain, Salesforce Ventures, Archetype Ventures and several angels. The company, which recently graduated from the Alchemist accelerator program for enterprise startups, splits its base between the U.S., where it keeps an […] Continue reading Autify raises $2.5M seed round for its no-code software testing platform→

Symantec’s Sheila Jordan named to Slack’s board of directors

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Newly-public Slack taps cybersecurity expertise for growing board. Continue reading Symantec’s Sheila Jordan named to Slack’s board of directors→

Alibaba to help Salesforce localize and sell in China

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Salesforce, the 20-year-old leader in customer relationship management (CRM) tools, is making a foray into Asia by working with one of the country’s largest tech firms, Alibaba. Alibaba will be the exclusive provider of Salesforce to enterprise customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, and Salesforce will become the exclusive enterprise CRM software […] Continue reading Alibaba to help Salesforce localize and sell in China→

Investor Jocelyn Goldfein to join us on AI panel at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise

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Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a foundational technology for enterprise software development and startups have begun addressing a variety of issues around using AI to make software and processes much more efficient. To that end, we are delighted to announce that Jocelyn Goldfein, a Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners will be joining on us […] Continue reading Investor Jocelyn Goldfein to join us on AI panel at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise→

Fellow raises $6.5M to help make managers better at leading teams and people

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Managing people is perhaps the most challenging thing most people will have to learn in the course of their professional lives – especially because there’s no one ‘right’ way to do it. But Ottawa-based startup Fellow is hoping to ease the learning curve for new managers, and improve and reinforce the habits of experienced ones […] Continue reading Fellow raises $6.5M to help make managers better at leading teams and people→

Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal

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On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) tools to help enterprises make sense of the sea of data that they use and amass: Salesforce is […] Continue reading Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal→

Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco

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Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name a few of the giants, have battled to deliver the tools businesses want to become more productive and competitive. That market is closing in on $500 billion in sales […] Continue reading Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco→

On balance, the cloud has been a huge boon to startups

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Today’s startups have a distinct advantage when it comes to launching a company because of the public cloud. You don’t have to build infrastructure or worry about what happens when you scale too quickly. The cloud vendors take care of all that for you. But last month when Pinterest announced its IPO, the company’s cloud […] Continue reading On balance, the cloud has been a huge boon to startups→