Category Archives: SoftBank Group

Sendoso nabs $100M as its corporate gifting platform passes 20,000 customers

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Corporate gift services have come into their own during the Covid-19 pandemic by standing in as a proxy for other kinds of relationship building activities — office meetings, lunches, and hosting at events — that have traditionally been part and parcel of how people do business, but were no longer feasible during lockdowns, social distancing […] Continue reading Sendoso nabs $100M as its corporate gifting platform passes 20,000 customers→

Affinity, a relationship intelligence company, raises $80M to help close deals

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Affinity is focused on industries like investment banking and venture capital, where there aren’t CRMs or networking platforms that cater to the specific needs of the long-term relationship. Continue reading Affinity, a relationship intelligence company, raises $80M to help close deals→

Arm launches its latest chip design for HPC, data centers and the edge

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Arm today announced the launch of two new platforms, Arm Neoverse V1 and Neoverse N2, as well as a new mesh interconnect for them. As you can tell from the name, V1 is a completely new product and maybe the best example yet of Arm’s ambitions in the data center, high-performance computing and machine learning […] Continue reading Arm launches its latest chip design for HPC, data centers and the edge→

Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform

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Cybereason, which uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of distributed resources, has raised $200 million in new financing from SoftBank Group and its affiliates.  It’s a sign of the belief that SoftBank has in the technology, since the Japanese investment firm is basically doubling […] Continue reading Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform→

Slack to live stream pitch to shareholders on Monday ahead of direct listing

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Slack will make its pitch to prospective shareholders on Monday at an invite-only event in New York City. Continue reading Slack to live stream pitch to shareholders on Monday ahead of direct listing→

SoftBank Vision Fund leads $250M Series D for Cohesity’s hyperconverged data platform

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San Jose-based Cohesity has closed an oversubscribed $250M Series D funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund, bringing its total raised to date to $410M. The enterprise software company offers a hyperconverged data platform for storing and managing all the secondary data created outside of production apps. In a press release today it notes this […] Continue reading SoftBank Vision Fund leads $250M Series D for Cohesity’s hyperconverged data platform→