Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds
Product-led sales and growth were big buzzwords last year, and startups are continuing to raise new infusions of capital as they develop their approaches.
In Endgame's case, the company announced Tuesday it closed on $30 million in Series B funding. The company touts itself as “the world̵
What does the new era of location intelligence hold for businesses?
In the current environment, businesses are now tasked with balancing the push toward recovery and developing the agility required to stay on top of reemerging COVID-19 obstacles.
Location data is absolutely critical to such strategies, enabling leading enterprises to not only mitigate challenges, b
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa most affected as Meta halts low-cost Express Wi-Fi
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been worst-affected by Meta's plan to discontinue its low-cost Express Wi-Fi internet, launched five years ago to drive connectivity in underserved regions.
Meta (formerly Facebook) quietly issued this notice saying that it plans to wind down the program lat
Cloud infrastructure market soared to $178B in 2021, growing $49B in one year
It’s kind of a broken record at this point, but the cloud infrastructure market continues to grow at an astonishing rate. Over the last year, it added almost $50 billion in business, growing from $129 billion in 2020 to $178 billion this year, according to Synergy Research data. Canalys repor
Artisanal Ventures closes $62M fund, takes 'connected capital' approach to investment
Cloud is the big buzzword these days, with people talking about why it's a smart move for companies, and lots of venture-backed startups developing easy ways for companies to make the shift.
Artisanal Ventures, a Bay Area venture capital firm investing in B2B cloud startups, closed on its first
Google Workspace goes all in on shadow IT
Google today announced a new version of Workspace, the company’s productivity service that you probably still refer to as G Suite. With the new — and free — Google Workspace Essentials plan, Google wants to bring more business users onto the platform by offering them the basic Wor
Low-code integration platform Digibee raises $25M Series A
Digibee, a low-code integration platform, is doing what all low-code integration platforms are apparently doing right now: raising funding. The company today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. Brazil-based Kinea and G2D Investments also par
With a $22B run rate, does it matter if Google Cloud still loses money?
Google's public cloud has been chasing competing services from Amazon and Microsoft for so long, you might think it would be getting winded. But the critical Alphabet division keeps on keeping on, yesterday reporting revenues of more than $5.5 billion for the fourth quarter. That was the good n
With $8M seed, Onehouse builds open source data lakehouse, eyes managed service
Traditionally, a data lake was a place to store amorphous unstructured data, while a data warehouse was where you put very structured data like credit card information. That began changing in recent years as companies saw a need to merge the two concepts and the lakehouse idea — combining the
Canva acquires Flourish in mission to tell better stories with data
Canva on Wednesday said it closed on its acquisition of Flourish, a London-based data visualization startup. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition comes as the visual communications company reached over 75 million monthly active users, up over 30 million in the past 12 mon
Marathon Ventures injects more capital into Colombia's startup ecosystem
Brazil and Mexico are most known as Latin America's hot startup ecosystems, but other countries, like Colombia, are gaining visibility and interest from investors.
One of the investors seeing promise in this country is Marathon Ventures, which closed its first fund of $26 million, touted as one
Can carbon credits for improving forests help save them — and us — from climate change?
Rising pressure on big business to address the threat of climate change by decarbonizing their ops has, in recent years, led to huge demand for carbon offset schemes — enabling companies to buy carbon credits to ‘offset’ emissions so they can claim to be ‘greening’ the
Netlify acquires Quirrel
Netlify, the well-funded company that, in many ways, started the Jamstack movement, today announced that it has acquired Quirrel, an open-source service for managing and executing serverless functions.
Founded by Simon Knott, who is also the maintainer of the popular Blitz.js React framework, Quirr
Metronome raises $30M to help software companies shift to usage-based pricing models
As more software companies shift to more flexible pricing models based on consumption, many are choosing to charge customers on a per-use, or usage, basis.
While this is easier for customers, it has created headaches for many software, or SaaS, businesses that are not equipped with billing systems