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Headless CMS company Contentful today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series E funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures and a number of other new and existing investors. With this, the company has now raised a total of $158.3 million and a Contentful spokesperson tells me […] Continue reading Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS
Enterprise barcode scanner company Scandit has closed an $80 million Series C round, led by Silicon Valley VC firm G2VP. Atomico, GV, Kreos, NGP Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Swisscom Ventures also participated in the round — which brings its total raised to date to $123M. The Zurich-based firm offers a platform that combines computer vision […] Continue reading Scandit raises $80M as COVID-19 drives demand for contactless deliveries
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, 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
Kespry, a company that offers industrial users a subscription-based drone service, today announced that it has raised funding from Salesforce Ventures, marking that firm’s first hardware investment. With this, Salesforce and Kespry are also partnering around bringing Kespry’s drone services for the insurance industry to Salesforce’s own tools for this vertical. Sadly, the companies did […] Continue reading Enterprise drone service Kespry raises new funding from Salesforce Ventures
As we wrote last week in How Salesforce paved the way for the SaaS platform approach, the ability to build extensions, applications and even whole companies on top of the Salesforce platform set the stage and the bar for every SaaS company since. Vlocity certainly recognized that. Targeting five verticals, it built industry-specific CRM solutions […] Continue reading Vlocity nabs $60M Series C investment on $1B valuation
Contentful, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based startup that provides content management infrastructure for companies like Spotify, Nike, Lyft and others, today announced that it has raised a $33.5 million Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from OMERS Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules. In […] Continue reading Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform
Salesforce Ventures is announcing a $50 million fund to invest in “cloud consulting” startups. The corporate venture arm is making a special effort to finance companies that are synergistic to the tech giant’s business.
The team has a “strong commitment to our consulting partners to make sure that we continue to have the partners that we need to grow Salesforce… Read More Continue reading Salesforce announces $50 million fund to invest in cloud consulting startups
Sigfox, the IoT company based out of France that is building a dedicated, global network to connect, monitor and control devices like smart home alarms, machinery, refrigerators and city streetlights, today confirmed that has closed its latest round of funding, a Series E round of €150 million ($160 million). We broke the news of this round in October, noting it was likely to be… Read More Continue reading French IoT startup Sigfox confirms €150M Series E at €600M valuation
Sigfox, the IoT company based out of France that is building a dedicated, global network to connect, monitor and control devices like smart home alarms, machinery, refrigerators and city streetlights, today confirmed that has closed its latest round of funding, a Series E round of €150 million ($160 million). We broke the news of this round in October, noting it was likely to be… Read More Continue reading French IoT startup Sigfox confirms €150M Series E at €600M valuation