Enterprise

Simplification has been a big theme in the enterprise world in the last couple of years. If a company can consolidate multiple point solutions into one product or contract, it can reduce complexity and ultimately costs for the end user — so long as those all-in-one offerings are effective at

Alaska Airlines recently started a three-year, $2.5 billion project to improve the airport experience at its hubs and focus cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. As a part of this project, the airline is looking to modernize the lobby experience — and as the company an

When the global pandemic hit, independent restaurants and shops that didn't already have an online ordering system in place found themselves scrambling to keep operations going when consumers no longer were going into establishments. That's where Odeko has come in, providing supply chain ma

Cosmonic, the company behind the open source wasmCloud project, today announced that its WebAssembly (Wasm) platform-as-a-service offering is now in public beta. In this open beta, Cosmonic is also introducing a number of new features that aim to make integrating Wasm into existing applications eas

The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars, but to this day it's been tough to disrupt with technology. Traditional consulting firms provide high-quality services, but they cost a lot and have rigid terms. And while there are plenty of portals offering low-quality fr

Slim.AI,astartupspecializinginsoftwaresupplychainsecuritythathelpsbusinessesoptimizeandsecuretheirsoftwarecontainers,todayannouncedthelaunchofitsautomatedcontainerhardeningfeatureattheCNCF’sKubeCon/CloudNativeConEurope.Withthis,Slimcannowautomaticallyscanacompany’scontainersforvulnerabi

As the economy has gotten tougher, plenty of companies have switched from buying in assets to renting them. There's a tortuous acronym for this which is XaaS or “everything as a service,” also referred to as “Servitization.” An example of this would be ServiceNow, which automates servic

When it comes to education, mathematics has long been considered one of the most challenging of subjects both to learn and to teach. A startup out of Barcelona called Innovamat believes it’s come up with an approach that can help on both of those fronts — designing guides for teachers a

It turns out that the cloud is expensive, and the more workloads you move to the cloud, the more it costs. Go figure. When we were in the “growth at all costs” phase between 2021 and 2022, it was easy to ignore or minimize the costs associated with operating in the cloud. But when companies sta

W elcome to the technewss Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It's inspired by the daily technewss+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, I am diving deeper into what generative AI means, or doesn’t mean, for enterp

Zoom today announced plans to acquire Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. While many enterprise communication tools — such as Zoom — specialize in real-time communica

Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis with participation from Fin Capital Norwest Venture Partners, Greycroft, Bowery Capital and Firebolt Ventures. The new cash, which brings Elevate’s total raised

In a sign that the seed-stage AI segment is still alive and kicking, Betaworks, the startup studio and VC firm, is launching a new program that’ll award $500,000 in funding to approximately 10 companies working on AI. Scheduled to run from mid-June until mid-September, Betaworks’ progra

Ampersand, a startup that helps SaaS companies bud user-facing integrations into their products, today announced that it has raised a $4.7 mlion seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. Base Case Capital, Flex Capital and 2.12 Angels also invested, along with numerous prominent angel investors. T