How to combine PLG and enterprise sales to improve your funnel
Between the changing tides of the economy and digital buying preferences, SaaS companies are under tremendous pressure. Many of these companies understand that 80% of their interactions with buyers occur on digital channels. At the same time, they need to drive profitability to meet investor expect
Enable lands $94M to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs
Enable, a startup selling access to a platform that helps business-to-business (B2B) companies manage their rebate programs, today announced that it raised $94 million in an oversubscribed Series C round led by Insight Partners with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, SE Ventures, PSP G
With a $13B valuation, Celonis defies current startup economics
When Celonis, an 11-year-old German process mining company, announced a $1 billion raise in August on a $13.2 billion post-money valuation, it was a bit of a shock. After all, VC firms were pulling back from the huge raises and gaudy valuations of yesteryear.
But Celonis — which has raised $2.4 b
SurveyMonkey parent Momentive Global lays off 11% of workforce
Momentive Global, the parent of the web-survey portal SurveyMonkey, laid off 11% of its workforce this week.
Multiple people across divisions — including those handling the business development, customer support, recruitment and sales at the San Mateo, California-headquartered company —
SecuriThings is bringing order to IoT device management with $21M investment
As companies deploy more security devices like cameras, access control systems, intercoms and many other tools throughout their organizations, they are often disconnected from traditional IT, and may lack any way of managing the equipment in a systematic way. SecuriThings has built a solution to so
Microsoft launches new security services aimed at protecting code in the cloud
At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced Defender Cloud Security Posture Management and Defender for DevOps, two new offerings within the company’s Defender for Cloud service (previously Azure Defender) aimed at managing software development and runtime security across multicloud,
Microsoft expands Azure OpenAI Service with DALL-E 2 in preview
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When Azure OpenAI Service launched in 2021, the service — a part of Azure Cognitive Services — provided enterprise-tailored access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform for applications like language translation and text autocompletion. That’s not changing. But after
Thanks to AI, you can now create automations in Power Automate by simply describing them
Power Automate, Microsoft’s Power Platform service that helps users create workflows between apps, is getting new AI smarts. During its Ignite conference, Microsoft rolled out capabilities powered by OpenAI’s Codex, the code-generating machine learning system underpinning GitHub Copilot
With $24.2M in funding, Diagrid launches its fully managed Dapr service for Kubernetes
Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, an open source project that aimed to make it easier for developers to build microservices on top of Kubernetes. Dapr, which stands for “distributed application runtime,” handles a lot of the primitives for building distributed applications (think p
With Places, Microsoft aims to help companies better manage hybrid work setups
Aiming to capture a broader swath of customers who’ve embraced hybrid work, as well as accommodate existing customers, Microsoft today introduced Places, a forthcoming add-on to Microsoft 365 designed to — in the company’s words — “optimize the use of physical space.
DataGrail announces automated risk assessment tool and $45M investment
DataGrail has always focused on helping companies comply with the growing world of privacy regulation, building plug-ins to common data-heavy applications to help automate data discovery and compliance.
Today, it's building on that with a new automated risk monitoring solution that helps compan
Tealium's new compliance tool helps ensure consumer data preferences get implemented
Tealium launched back in 2011 and built one of the earliest customer data platforms (CDP) a couple of years later. The company has concentrated on collecting data in highly regulated industries, and today it introduced a new component to help with the compliance side of data usage.
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After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay
Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this time with a focus on automating mundane, repetitive tasks.
Bank was previously co-founder and CEO at Timeful, a smart scheduling app that helped users make better use of their tim
Google looks to boost its security cred in the cloud
Cloud data breaches in the enterprise have skyrocketed in the last year — a worrying trend that’s led to the emergence of a host of new tools and services to help better secure that environment; as well as a major mobilization among cloud service providers to launch more specific tech t