Category Archives: TC

Box wins proxy board battle with activist investor Starboard Value

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A battle between Box and its majority shareholder Starboard Value over control of the board ended today when the company’s slate of directors easily defeated Starboard’s. It culminated months of maneuvering on both sides as they battled for control of the company. Box, in a somewhat generic statement, expressed gratitude for the results: Box appreciates […] Continue reading Box wins proxy board battle with activist investor Starboard Value→

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→

Fin names former Twilio exec Evan Cummack as CEO, raises $20M

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Fin’s software captures employee workflow data from across applications and turns it into productivity insights to improve the way enterprise teams work and remain engaged. Continue reading Fin names former Twilio exec Evan Cummack as CEO, raises $20M→

TrueFort snares $30M Series B to expand zero trust application security solution

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As companies try to navigate an ever-changing security landscape, it can be challenging to protect everything. Security startup TrueFort has built a zero trust solution focusing on protecting enterprise applications. Today, the company announced a $30 million Series B. Shasta Ventures led today’s round with participation from new firms Canaan and Ericsson Ventures along with […] Continue reading TrueFort snares $30M Series B to expand zero trust application security solution→

Google Workspace opens up spaces for all users

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Google is tying everything together with a handbook for navigating hybrid work, which includes best practice blueprints for five common hybrid meetings. Continue reading Google Workspace opens up spaces for all users→

New IBM Power E1080 server promises dramatic increases in energy efficiency, power

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We know that large data centers running powerful servers use vast amounts of electricity. Anything that can reduce consumption would be a welcome change, especially in a time of climate upheaval. That’s where the new IBM Power E1080 server, which is powered by the latest Power10 processors, comes into play. IBM claims it can consolidate […] Continue reading New IBM Power E1080 server promises dramatic increases in energy efficiency, power→

Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue

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Vowel’s meeting operating system has the goal of making meetings more useful before, during and after. Continue reading Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue→

Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems

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Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — and has, notably, been used by labs to sequence […] Continue reading Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems→

Fractory raises $9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks

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The manufacturing industry took a hard hit from the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are signs of how it is slowly starting to come back into shape — helped in part by new efforts to make factories more responsive to the fluctuations in demand that come with the ups and downs of grappling with the shifting […] Continue reading Fractory raises $9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks→

The time Animoto almost brought AWS to its knees

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Today, Amazon Web Services is a mainstay in the cloud infrastructure services market, a $60 billion juggernaut of a business. But in 2008, it was still new, working to keep its head above water and handle growing demand for its cloud servers. In fact, 15 years ago last week, the company launched Amazon EC2 in […] Continue reading The time Animoto almost brought AWS to its knees→