Cansativa Group grabs capital as Germany readies for recreational cannabis market
Calvin Broadus, a.k.a. Snoop Dogg, rocked the stage at Sunday's Super Bowl, and now his Casa Verde Capital team is pumping new funds into Frankfurt-based Cansativa Group, touted as the “largest medical cannabis distributor” in Germany.
Cansativa Group came onto the scene in 2017 with busine
New DocuSign-Zoom integration lets you sign docs in a Zoom meeting
Anyone who had to get documents signed early in the pandemic knows how harrowing and dangerous the situation was. Nobody wanted to meet face-to-face, but we still had to conduct business.
Today, in an effort to simplify online document signing, Zoom and DocuSign announced a new integration that let
Intel to acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B to build on custom foundry strategy
When Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the company’s foundry strategy last March, he dubbed it IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. At the time, the company announced the first part of that approach with a $20 billion investment to build two new fabs in Arizona. The company also announc
Asana’s new workflow tools help companies coordinate work across teams
Asana has always been about helping teams coordinate projects, but for the most part throughout the history of the company that has involved providing individual teams with the tools to manage a particular set of tasks to completion. Today, the company announced Asana Flow, a new set of workflow to
Tropic takes in more capital as demand for software procurement savings continues
Global spend on enterprise software was expected to reach $599 billion by the end of 2021, and new forecasts say it is now projected to grow 11.5% year over year to nearly $700 billion in 2022.
The average company can have more than 100 software contracts, and Tropic's technology not only bring
Zendesk spurns $17B private equity takeover offer
When someone knocks on your door waving a check for $17 billion, you have to let them in for a chat. But when presented with that very offer this week from a consortium of private equity firms, Zendesk’s board rejected the deal on grounds that it undervalued the company.
In a statement, they
RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using 'Alexa'
RedRoute, a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector.
When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell Un
With steady growth, Egnyte reaches $150M ARR and looks to future IPO
After 14 years, it’s hard to keep calling Egnyte a startup. It’s more a wily veteran private company with steady growth, one that might have taken 12 years to reach $100 million in ARR, but took just two more to reach $150 million. It could surpass $200 million this year, and Egnyte CEO
Mirantis on run rate over $100M two years after buying Docker Enterprise assets
When Docker announced it was selling Docker Enterprise in 2019, it was a big surprise to industry watchers. Perhaps an even bigger surprise was that the buyer was Mirantis, a company best known for commercializing the OpenStack project.
After the sale, Docker pivoted to a developer-focused company
Chaos engineering startup Gremlin gets a new CEO
Gremlin, the popular chaos engineering startup, today announced that it has brought on Josh Leslie, the former CEO of Cumulus Networks, which was acquired by Nvidia in 2020, as its CEO. Kolton Andrus, who co-founded the company back in 2016 and held the CEO role since, will become Gremlin’s C
Census confirms it has raised a $60M Series B on $630M valuation
Census, a startup building a data layer between business operations and a company’s data warehouse, confirmed an Axios story from earlier this week that it has raised a $60 million Series B on a valuation of $630 million.
CEO Boris Jabes said that from the start he wanted to build something t
After seeing 200%+ ARR growth, Occupier raises $10.5M to become the OS for corporate real estate teams
The COVID-19 pandemic has created all sorts of real estate issues for companies as it forced so many employees to work from home, leaving empty space all over the globe.
And while there is no shortage of technology out there for landlords, there are fewer options for commercial real estate tenants
PopSQL aims to be a modern data team's best friend
Rahil Sondhi has been coding since he was 10 years old, and even when his career took him in the direction of an engineer, he was still writing a lot of SQL and working with data.
That's when he realized that many of the tools he was using were tedious, clunky and slow — basically none of
Eight years into his tenure, Satya Nadella looks to diversify
It’s easy to forget that Microsoft used to stumble from time to time, especially when you look at its gaudy $2 trillion market cap today. Around 2010, four years before Satya Nadella would succeed Steve Ballmer as CEO, the company pretty much completely missed the mobile boat.
When Nadella ca