Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

Lahore-based coworking space startup Colabs is set to roll out a SaaS product to enable businesses to meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing, and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increas

Oslo-based Unleash nabs $14M Series A to build open source feature management tool

As developers build new features into software, they have to be sure that the new functionality doesn’t break what’s already there. So they often will roll it out slowly and see what happens using a technique of placing feature flags in the code. This is a proven way of controlling the

Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs

Google Cloud today launched its Suspend/Resume feature for virtual machines into general availability. Before it launched this feature as an alpha a couple of years ago, the only option developers had were to stop and start instances. With Suspend/Resume, the experience is more akin to closing and

ServiceNow overhauls user experience, adds Automation Engine with native RPA

ServiceNow introduced a new overall application design today, and while they were at it, launched Automation Engine, a tool developed to help companies speed up the creation of automations, including native RPA (robotic process automation) integration. They are both part of the new San Diego releas

Nvidia launches a new GPU architecture and the Grace CPU Superchip

At its annual GTC conference for AI developers, Nvidia today announced its next-gen Hopper GPU architecture and the Hopper H100 GPU, as well as a new data center chip that combines the GPU with a high-performance CPU, which Nvidia calls the “Grace CPU Superchip” (not to be confused with

Hex scores $52M Series B to grow data science collaboration platform

Hex has been moving briskly along its startup evolutionary path with its data science collaboration platform growing at a rapid pace, so much so the company attracted the attention of fundraising mega-firm Andreessen Horowitz and a pair of key industry strategic investors, Snowflake and Databricks.

Wealth poised to make estate planning accessible to all

Estate planning startup Wealth is going after a $180 billion U.S. market by eliminating the three-ring binder of papers that become obsolete in months and replacing it with a digital dashboard that updates your holdings in real time. Many technology companies have come with their approaches to solv

Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations

Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche, it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. In 2006, Hubspot launched as a way to take advantage of the trend

Finally takes in $95M in equity, debt to roll out lending for small businesses

Felix Rodriguez's family is from the Dominican Republic, and he watched his aunts and uncles come to the United States and create their own businesses. However, he noticed that not all small businesses were on a level playing field when it came to bookkeeping and working capital. In 2018, after

Glia raises $45M at a $1B+ valuation for an AI-based CRM that lets agents get hands-on to help

The world continues to shift more of its customer service needs online, and those building tools to help manage that demand are seeing their stars rise as a result. In the latest development, Glia — which builds AI-based customer service solutions for agents to converse with customers across

Twilio launches Flex Conversations, a unified chat API for contact centers

Twio today announced a new API for its Flex contact center service that combines the platform’s existing chat channels under a single umbrella to make it easier for developers to bud contact center applications that are less frustrating for end users. Whe a lot of contact centers today use al

Thoma Bravo to take Anaplan off the board for $10.7B

It’s a bit unusual for meaningful tech news to break on a Sunday night, but that’s what happened last night when private equity firm Thoma Bravo announced it was acquiring Anaplan, the SaaS financial planning tool, for a cool $10.7 billion. The company closed on Friday with a market cap

Hence secures $1.8M seed to grow its legal services sourcing technology

Hence Technologies, a Kigali- and London-based startup that uses data and AI to match companies with external legal service providers is set to scale its precision-matching engine after raising $1.8 million in seed funding from various institutions and angel investors. This brings the total amount

The Expert jumps into home goods e-commerce

The Expert started out in 2021 as a way for anyone, regardless of budget, to get a one-hour video consultation with some of the top interior designers in the world. Now, buoyed by $12 million in Series A funding, the one-year-old company is expanding into e-commerce to become what co-founder Leo Se