Jeffrey Katzenberg, WndrCo flex funding muscles with string of new deals
When you see Jeffrey Katzenberg's name associated with an investment, you take a look. However, when you see his name multiple times in your inbox, for example, tied to funding rounds for Sparrow, Point.me and HUBUC, and one I personally wrote about last week, Popchew, it's time to inquire
CircleCI acquires Ponicode
Continuous integration and delivery platform CircleCI today announced that it has acquired Ponicode, a Paris, France-based startup that helps developers automate their unit tests and track their overall test coverage. Ponicode, which was founded in 2019 and had previously raised $4.6 million in fun
Google is acquiring security intelligence firm Mandiant for $5.4B
At a time when cybersecurity is top of mind for many firms, Google announced it was paying $5.4 billion to acquire security intelligence company Mandiant, giving it access to security data gathering capabilities, as well as a team of hundreds of security consultants. The company will become part of
Calico attracts Serena Williams to $2.1M seed to build fashion supply chain software
A few years ago Kathleen Chan, the CEO and founder of Calico, launched a couple of small fashion companies, but as those companies scaled quickly with the help of Shopify and Facebook ads, she noted a lack of tools to help her manage the back office of a business specifically geared to fashion.
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Zapt is now Trela; aims to remove the middleman from group food shopping
People who purchase as a group, for anything from insurance to a group of neighbors fixing their fence, can often command a better purchase deal.
In Trela's case, it is developing a way for Brazilian neighbors to connect groups of people to suppliers, particularly for food purchases with the go
How quickly do enterprise tech firms need to grow to satisfy today’s investors?
A half-dozen enterprise stocks reported earnings this week, but with the world in turmoil, the market gave them kind of a rough reception.
It’s hard to say what had the stock market in a tizzy, but it certainly wasn’t the companies’ straight revenue numbers, as all reported strong
Box strikes back with a quarter that beats everyone’s expectations, including its own
This time last year, Box was fighting tooth and nail to keep activist investors led by Starboard Value from taking over its board and dictating the company’s direction. If the activist investors had won, CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie might have been forced out, and the company could have
Popchew cooks up creator partnership approach to digitally native, local food brands
To create the perfect recipe of new food brands and experiences, Popchew has compiled a list of infrastructure and restaurant partnership ingredients so that creators can build, launch and grow their own local, digitally native food brands nationally in a matter of weeks.
The New York startup was f
To achieve enterprise sales success, tailor your approach to CIOs
Technology vendors who have been successful over the long term all have something in common: they know how to sell to chief information officers.
They understand that the work isn't over after the handshakes and signatures — effectively managing and nurturing a vendor-CIO relationship require
Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps
Snowflake helps customers store and manage oodles of data in the cloud without cloud vendor lock-in. Streamlit is a startup that developed a popular open source project for building data-based apps. Seems like a pretty good match, and today Snowflake announced it was acquiring Streamlit for $800 mi
Knative becomes a CNCF project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is home to many of the most important modern open source projects, including Kubernetes. Today, the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee announced that it has now also accepted Knative as a CNCF incubating project.
“Knative is a powerful tech
Three Salesforce AI pioneers launch Faros AI to bring order to engineering operations
When the three founders of Faros AI were working at Salesforce, they helped develop the company’s artificial intelligence, known as Einstein. While the goal of Einstein was to help companies become more data-driven, the engineering team building it experienced the same pain of tracking engine
Connecteam raises $120M at an $800M+ valuation for comms app for deskless workers
After years of being overlooked, frontline employees and others who do not sit at desks all day are taking center stage in a new wave of workplace productivity apps.
In the latest development, Connecteam — an all-in-one app providing HR tools, communications services, and daily operations man
After raising $4 million, Emtech supports central banks across Africa, Caribbean to deploy regulatory sandboxes
For fintechs to thrive in such a way that they remain meaningful to economies, a synergy between them and regulatory bodies is inevitable. However, the challenge has always been establishing connections with central banks, which remain majorly rigid and slow to catch up with changes in the financia