Microsoft launches its Cloud for Sovereignty
At its Inspire conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new solution for public sector customers — especially in Europe — who need to be able to guarantee that their users’ data is stored and processed in a given region.
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Nail product market fit in an ever-changing market with Underscore VC and Hi Marley
Mike Greene founded Hi Marley in 2017 and has since raised $41.75 million to fund the AI-powered insurance chat platform. Hear how the company — which was designed as an SMS texting platform — is finding product market fit as the insurance landscape rapidly changes, and how Underscore VC Lily L
Strac plugs into Slack, OneDrive and more to automatically redact sensitive info
Increasingly, absent a federal framework, U.S. states are passing privacy and security laws aimed at protecting people’s data. The California Consumer Privacy Act is perhaps the best known, followed by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the New York Privacy Act and the Virginia C
HireArt lands $26.25M to help manage and recruit W2 contractors for clients
HireArt, which technewss previously described as a “resume-killing” jobs marketplace, today announced that it raised $26.25 million in a Series B financing round led by Three Fish Capital with participation from over a “half dozen” angel investors. CEO Nick Sedlet said that
Why investors see the potential in AI-powered, copy-generating adtech companies
Sophisticated AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-3 can write prose that’s impressively human-like, or at least good enough to fool the average person. They’ve been used to generate essays, poetry, stories, news reports and more to impressive effect. Perhaps it was only a matter of time,
Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs nabs $105M and US Air Force partnership
Autonomous flight is a grand challenge in aviation — and a gold mine. The first company to crack it at scale stands to reap handsome profits from transportation and logistics alone. In 2020, the size of the global cargo airline industry was $110.8 billion, according to Statista, and one source es
Founders Fund backs Pulley as it helps companies make better decisions about equity
When Yin Wu started Pulley, a cap table and equity management startup, back in 2019, she was out to compete with the likes of Carta. My colleague Connie Loizos spoke to Wu in 2020 when the company raised $10 million.
The company provides tools and insights to founders and employees who are looking
Syrup Tech bags $6.3M to develop some sweet inventory-planning software
Knowing how much and which kind of inventory your brand needs involves a complex web of data that companies often keep up with via spreadsheets or legacy systems that don't provide a full picture of the business.
Syrup Tech, now armed with $6.3 million in new funding, is feeding all that data,
Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base
Kontent.ai, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion. Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external in
Microsoft lays off a portion of its workforce as part of a ‘realignment’
"http://localhost:81/images/resimler/speakable-summary">Microsoft today became the latest Big Tech company to cut jobs during a period of mounting economic uncertainty. Bloomberg reports that the Redmond firm is “realigning business groups and roles” after the close of its fiscal year (o
Turn your startup’s pricing strategy into a powerful growth lever
Pricing models can be powerful growth levers. A bad pricing model will impede growth and can even doom an otherwise promising startup, whereas a good model will capture some of the value that a product creates as revenue and keep growth flywheels humming along.
A startup's growth may be at risk
How your company can adopt a usage-based business model like AWS
Of the 300+ services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released over the years, not a single one has needed to be rolled back from being priced incorrectly.
That's no accident.
Usage-based pricing (UBP) delivers very high levels of revenue growth and product adoption. Any compa
Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M
Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. While circuit boards are mostly invisible to end users, they are foundational to the
IBM acquires Databand to bolster its data observability stack
IBM today announced that it acquired Databand, a startup developing an observability platform for data and machine learning pipelines. Details of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Tel Aviv-based Databand had raised $14.5 million prior to the acquisition.
Databand employees will join IBM’s