Pequity, a compensation platform designed for more equitable pay, raises $19M
Diversity and inclusion have become central topics in the world of work. In the best considerations, improving them is a holistic effort, involving not just conceiving of products with this in mind, but hiring and managing talent in a diverse and inclusive way, too. A new startup called Pequity, wh
Aircall raises $120 million for its cloud-based phone system
Aircall has raised a $120 million Series D round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Following today's funding round, the company has reached unicorn status, which means it has a valuation above $1 billion — this is the 16th French unicorn.
The startup has been building a cloud-based phone
Vantage raises $4M to help businesses understand their AWS costs
Vantage, a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. A number of angel investors, including Brianne Kimmel, Julia Lipton, Stephanie Friedman, Calvin French Owen, Ben and Moisey Uretsky, Mi
How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder
“If you’re the founder of a seed-stage [company and] you’re worried about your electricity staying on this month, then your salary is too low. If you’re saving $10,000/mo, then your salary is probably higher than necessary,” investor Leo Polovets wrote in a Twitter thr
Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps
Time is your most valuable asset — as the saying goes — and today a startup called Memory.ai, which is building AI-based productivity tools to help you with your own time management, is announcing some funding to double down on its ambitions: It wants not only to help manage your time,
What does Red Hat’s sale to IBM tell us about Couchbase’s valuation?
The IPO rush of 2021 continued this week with a fresh filing from NoSQL provider Couchbase. The company raised hundreds of millions while private, making its impending debut an important moment for a number of private investors, including venture capitalists.
According to PitchBook data, Couchbase
Seed is not the new Series A
The incredible success of the cloud business applications space in recent years has driven up valuations and fundraising across all stages of venture investment. That has in turn increased VC fund sizes, led to massive cloud IPOs and brought a new cadre of investors to further fuel the fire.
The me
CEO Shishir Mehrotra and investor S. Somasegar reveal what sings in Coda’s pitch doc
Coda entered the market with an ambitious, but simple, mission. Since its founding in 2014, it has seemingly forged a path to realizing its vision with $140 million in funding and 25,000 teams across the globe using the platform.
Coda is simple in that its focus is on the document, one of the oldes
How to launch a successful RPA initiative
Robotic process automation (RPA) is rapidly moving beyond the early adoption phase across verticals. Automating just basic workflow processes has resulted in such tremendous efficiency improvements and cost savings that businesses are adapting automation at scale and across the enterprise.
While th
Transform launches with $24.5M in funding for a tool to query and build metrics out of data troves
The biggest tech companies have put a lot of time and money into building tools and platforms for their data science teams and those who work with them to glean insights and metrics out of the masses of data that their companies produce: how a company is performing, how a new feature is working, wh
Gusto makes first acquisition, buying Ardius to expand into R&D tax credits
Free money from the government sounds like winning the lottery, but the reality is that most tech startups and even local retail businesses and restaurants can potentially qualify for tax credits related to research and development in the United States. Those credits, which is what helps tech giant
Google announces EPYC-based Tau virtual machines for Cloud
Google this morning announced the launch of Tau, a new famy of virtual machines but on AMD's third-gen EPYC processor. According to the company, the new x86-compatible system offers a 42% price-performance boost over standard VMs. Google notably first started utizing AMD EPYC processors for Clo
Nylas, maker of APIs to integrate email and other productivity tools, raises $120M, passes 80K developers
Companies like Stripe and Twilio have put APIs front and center as an effective way to integrate complex functionality that may not be core to your own technology stack but is a necessary part of your wider business. Today, a company that has taken that model to create an effective way to integrate
Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’
Online job listings were one of the first things to catch on in the first generation of the internet. But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that te