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Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses

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Hightouch, a SaaS service that helps businesses sync their customer data across sales and marketing tools, is coming out of stealth and announcing a $2.1 million seed round. The round was led by Afore Capital and Slack Fund, with a number of angel investors also participating. At its core, Hightouch, which participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 […] Continue reading Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses→

Electric gets another $7 million in funding from 01 Advisors and the Slack Fund

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Electric, a platform that aims to put IT departments in the cloud, today announced new funding following a continuation of its Series B earlier this year. Dick Costolo and Adam Bain (01 Advisors) and the Slack Fund participated in the $7 million capital infusion. 01 Advisors put up the majority of the financing ($6 million) […] Continue reading Electric gets another $7 million in funding from 01 Advisors and the Slack Fund→

CTO.ai’s developer shortcuts eliminate coding busywork

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There’s too much hype about mythical “10X developers”. Everyone’s desperate to hire these ‘ninja rockstars’. In reality, it’s smarter to find ways of deleting annoying chores for the coders you already have. That’s where CTO.ai comes in. Emerging from stealth today, CTO.ai lets developers build and borrow DevOps shortcuts. These automate long series of steps […] Continue reading CTO.ai’s developer shortcuts eliminate coding busywork→

VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams

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Troops helps sales teams communicate via Slack. Continue reading VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams→

Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack

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Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is finally taking the wraps off the new venture: Begin, an intelligent app designed to hel… Continue reading Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack→

Slack makes another 11 new investments in its Slack fund

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slack-hq As Slack’s rapid growth begins to slow a little bit, the company is looking to become a wider productivity platform — and that includes getting as many developers as it can building applications that can figure out new and unique use cases for it.
That’s part of the reason it established the Slack Fund, which makes investments in startups that are building tools on top of Slack. Read More Continue reading Slack makes another 11 new investments in its Slack fund→