Enterprise

Earlier this year, a big French tech company started requiring an email to the CEO for every purchase above €1,000. That's because they didn't have the right tool to manage procurement. Meet Pivot, a new French startup that wants to overhaul spend management solutions. Pivot wants to work

The software spend squeeze is lessening, new data from Battery Ventures indicates. According to the venture capital firm's survey of enterprise firms with 100 C-suite leaders at companies around $35 billion in annual IT spend, contract approval timelines are no longer stretching longer, and foc

Historically, product innovation has focused on the majority, often leaving many behind. This created a continuous cycle where a select few would identify gaps in a market, develop a product based on their interpretation of said gaps, and over time add new features to appeal to a predicted majority

What products and services will benefit the most from recent developments in AI technology? We’re keeping close tabs on the question, and we’re curious if startups will be able to best lever AI improvements or if cloud platforms are the best positioned. Or maybe it’ll be the compa

Zapier today announced the launch of Canvas, a new tool that aims to help its users plan and diagram their business-critical processes — with a fair bit of AI sprinkled in there to help them turn those processes into Zapier-based automations. Canvas is now in early access. In addition, the co

On the heels of the debut of its Bedrock service for building generative AI apps, Amazon has launched a new enterprise plan for CodeWhisperer, its AI-powered service to generate and suggest code. The new plan, aptly called CodeWhisperer Enterprise Tier, introduces new functionality that allows a co

Amazon today announced the general availability of Bedrock, its service that offers a choice of generative AI models from Amazon itself and third-party partners through an API. Bedrock, which was unveiled in early April, allows AWS customers to build apps on top of generative AI models and customiz

Every company is now a software company, as the cliché goes, which means every company needs to understand what’s going on inside their apps and infrastructure. Even the slightest lag can be the difference between onboarding a new customer and, well, not. This is where the co

Transfr, a startup creating VR tools for training and career development, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series C round led by ABS Capital with participation from JPMorgan Chase Impact Finance, Advisory, Lumos Capital Group, Akkadian Ventures, Spring Tide Capital, Firework Ventures

The concept of a data mesh has been around for a few years. At a high level, it’s a data platform architecture that allows users to access data without transferring it to one of two places: a data lake, or a centralized repository for storing data at scale; or a data warehouse, an enterprise

Market intelligence — where organizations gather information about industries, other businesses, trends and more in order to use that data to help make business decisions — has become a huge industry in itself over the last few decades, projected to be worth nearly $84 billion in revenu

Meta's Quest headsets have long been reliably consumer focused — at least until last year's Quest Pro launch. Meta, like Magic Leap and Microsoft before it, has seen the writing on the wall. The real money is in enterprise. At today's Connect conference in Menlo Park, California,

Just because generative AI is trendy right now, doesn’t mean it has to be applied to every application. But try telling that to Workday. The enterprise management platform vendor today announced a suite of new generative AI features aimed at “increasing productivity” and “st

Cloud detection and response company Gem Security today announced that it has raised a $23 mlion Series A round led by GGV Capital, with participation from IBM Ventures and Sicon Valley CISO Investments. It was only in February that Gem announced its $11 mlion seed round led by Team8, which also pa