Cequence adds $60M Series C to improve API security

When we last checked in with Cequence Security in February 2019, the company had just closed a $17 million Series B and was concentrating on security to protect business logic. While it still does that, it has shifted focus to API security, and today it announced a $60 million Series C. Menlo

Forethought nabs $65M Series C to improve customer service with AI

In 2018, Forethought, a startup looking to put AI to work across customer service, won the technewss Disrupt Battlefield and soon after landed a $9 million Series A. Well, three years later that company just landed a $65 million Series C, and it’s rolling along. Steadfast Capital led the lat

Innovaccer valued at $3.2 billion in $150 million funding

Innovaccer has raised a new financing round and more than doubled its valuation to $3.2 billion from $1.3 billion in February this year as a growing number of healthcare organizations move to use the San Francisco-headquartered firm’s platform to put their troves of data to better use. Mubada

BHub secures $20M to become LatAm companies' back-office administrator

BHub announced Tuesday that it took in a new round of capital just three months after receiving $4.4 million in pre-seed investment to offer full back-office SaaS for small and medium businesses in Latin America. Monashees and Valor Capital Group are doubling down on their investment in the company

A new growth equity outfit, Camber Partners, just raised $100 million to buy stranded SaaS startups

In recent years, enterprise software companies have grown faster, and more valuable, than ever. Still, most startups never reach that kind of escape velocity, with many plodding along while their venture backers — who are returning to market more quickly and raising bigger funds — move

Conversational UX: The missing piece in your chatbot strategy

If given a choice between being on hold with customer service and having a query resolved by a few taps of a smartphone keyboard, most of us would pick the second option. It's easy, quick and according to Gartner, 80% of companies will switch from native mobile applications to messaging by 2025

SnapLogic raises $165M at a $1B valuation to help enterprises integrate and automate their disparate apps and data

As more enterprises sign on to the trend of digital transformation and bringing more of their legacy work into the modern era of work, a company called SnapLogic, which has built a platform to integrate those apps and data, and to automate some of the activities that use them, has raised a big roun

As EU’s VAT reform ramps up, marketplaces must focus on compliance to avoid tax risk

Electronic interfaces, platforms and marketplaces form a key layer in the digital infrastructure behind e-commerce, serving as gatekeepers between consumers and producers of digital content or digitally sold products. These gatekeepers offer third-party companies access to a global market by provid

Anakin's pricing tool gives e-commerce companies jump on competitors

Fresh from its time in Y Combinator, SaaS startup Anakin raised $2 million to continue developing its software enabling e-commerce companies to see live pricing data on their competitors. Mohit Prateek and Rashmi Bala started the company last September and officially launched in March to help e-com

Work-Bench report finds just 1.9% of venture investment going to female enterprise founders

A new report from early-stage venture capital firm Work-Bench confirmed what you probably already know: Startups with women founders are getting a mere sliver of the overall funding pie. What’s more, the percentages are far worse in the enterprise, where Work-Bench tends to invest. The numbe

How to acquire customer research that shapes your go-to-market strategy

Before you can hire a full-time marketer, you must first get to know your potential customer and what is going on in their life that will ultimately trigger them into using you. If you can get to grips with the below areas you'll be much more prepared when deciding what type of marketing resour

E-commerce aggregator Merama gets its horn after just 12 months in business

When it comes to investment in e-commerce aggregators in Latin America lately, when it rains, it pours. Merama, which acquires or launches Latin American digital brands, hit a $1.2 billion valuation — just 12 months after incorporation — following a new $60 million follow-on investment led by S

Synthesia raises $50M to leverage synthetic avatars for corporate training and more

Synthesia, a startup using AI to create synthetic videos, is walking a fine, but thus far prosperous, line between being creepy and being pretty freakin’ cool. Today, it announced the close of a $50 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from GV and existing

NewtonX secures $32M to power your next business decision

Everyday business decisions require data and are often questions someone has already asked and had answered. However, where all of that knowledge lives is not always accessible if you aren't in research or have a panel of experts. NewtonX wants to change that. The business-to-business insights